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'File 19/172 II (C 94) Bahrain Armed Police' [‎116r] (260/478)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (214 folios). It was created in 13 Feb 1930-22 Dec 1944. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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tor watch and ward at night has baen In operation
tor a large number of years and has on the whole
worked very satisfactorily and with some readjust
ments of the relations between police and Nature a
further improvement should be possible.Politically
the system has advantages and ay own view is that
at any rate for the present the arrangement should
continue.
I recommend the establishment of a
separate Police Station at ttoharrak whose jurisdic
tion should cover the Island of Moharrak and the
Saghirs
islets of Uma-Shajar al Kabira and Al */ This police
station should be incharge of a sub-inspector who
would also control the operations of police of Hedd
and the Nature.The police station at ^anamah for
which a larger staff has been provided should have
jurisdiction over the whole of the remainder of
Bahrain and would control the police poets at Awall
and the refinery and Nature.
'ihe Superintendent of Police will
have a great deal of work in attending to the
internal adminstration of the Armed — Military
Police and the civil police and in my opinion he
will require an officer to aasiat him. I have there
fore euggested the creation of a poat of Inspector
whose main duties would be (i) to act as second in
command to the Superintendent of Police (&) the
examination of cases which investigation officers
have left aa untraced and (s) the checking of the
files of oases ready for prosecution.Ha could also
be assigned such duties as the investigation of
important cases in which kuropeens wort involved,
the control of the traffic police and of any cases
which concern ships at sea. Hs should prepare a

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This file contains correspondence regarding the development of the armed police force in Bahrain between the years 1930 and 1944.

The documents discuss the British authorities' desire to reduce the number of Indians employed in the police force and make it appear less noticeably 'foreign'. Various other reforms and training initiatives during this period are also discussed.

A full, detailed report from 1940 entitled 'A Report on the Bahrain Police with Suggestions for their improvement' is contained on ff. 70-167a.

The file also contains detailed instructions regarding protocol for the use of force by the police against crowds (notably the use of firearms against illegal assemblies) and documents containing a broader discussion of the nature of Britain's role in Bahrain.

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1 volume (214 folios)
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File is arranged in chronological order, from earliest at beginning of the file to most recent at end.

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Previously a bound correspondence file, its sheets have been unbound and are now loose. A foliation system of circled pencil in top right-hand corner of each front-facing page begins on the title page and ends on the last page of text. There is another inconsistent foliation system that is also in pencil in the top right-hand corner of each front-facing page but is not circled.

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