

Ng Oi-san - a resourceful seven-year-old girl
I notice that it was on this day, back in 1933, that the reading public in Hong Kong heard about a plucky little girl whose actions...


Crime, Justice and Punishment
Crime, Justice and Punishment in Colonial Hong Kong by May Holdsworth and Christopher Munn, with photographs and pictures sourced by...


Unsinkable Constable O'Sullivan
I've just come across a nice little story about one of the three Police Constable O'Sullivans who was in the HKP in October 1897, Edmund,...


100 years ago today
100 years ago today the news of the Armistice was trickling through to Hong Kong ... telegrams were received, the papers published one...


Bobby Bear (aka Pipp) and other matters
An interesting weekend - especially intrigued about the Civil Affairs Units towards the end of WWII - British police often perilously...


A weekend in Durham and an Irish magazine article
I'm looking forward to the Police History Society conference this weekend - not a huge affair, but they have interesting line ups of...





















