Description

The Wan Chai Gap Police Station was completed in 1939 and is located on a hilltop at Coombe Road, The Peak. It is adjacent to the confluence of seven roads, including Peak Road, Stubbs Road, Wan Chai Gap Road, Black's Link, Middle Gap Road, Mount Cameron Road and Coombe Road. The two-storey reinforced concrete building was converted into the Police Museum in 1988. It showcases the history and important developments of the Police Force over the past century through its collection. Replicating the appearance of the Wan Chai Gap Police Station at that time, this model of the Police Station was made in 1955 by a Shandong Chinese police officer stationed here. At that time, 28 Shandong police officers were posted to the Wan Chai Gap Police Station from the Traffic Division. In fact, to strengthen the Hong Kong Police Force in the 1920s, the Force sent officers to Weihaiwei in Shandong, which was then a British Concession, to recruit Shandong Chinese to work in the Hong Kong Police. At that time, the Shandong police officers were assigned to Group D, rather than Group C to which local Chinese police officers were assigned. As the officers from Shandong were physically fit and typically of a larger stature than their local counterparts, they were often deployed to the New Territories, the Traffic Division, the Emergency Unit or the Peak Police Sub-Division and Government House on Hong Kong Island.