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A Geylang Police Post

Title

Year/Period

Late 19th century

Region

Singapore

Material

Paper

Dimension

Frame size: 9 x 14 cm,
Image size: 8.2 x 13.4 cm

Accession No.

1994-05595

Collection of

National Museum of Singapore

This is a view of an auxiliary police station at Geylang. The early police force was mainly made up of Malays and Indians; the colonial government did not trust the Chinese community at that time because nearly 60 percent of them were members of the ‘hoey’ (secret societies). By the early 1900s, with the explosion of Chinese immigration into Singapore, the government had no choice but to recruit Chinese into the police force.