Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 April 1956Vol. XXVI, No.9

1,000 Inhabitants

p. 69 · Read in the full issue

Page 6969

One Gendarme To

WHILE the small and over burdened police force of Noumea grows smaller, population, drunkenness and prostitution in crease triumphantly.

This is revealed in 4 he Police Commissioner’s report for 1955, in which he stresses some of the problems inseparable from control of a mixed population of New Cale donians, Indonesians, Vietnamese, Tahitians, and Europeans.

Besides crime in its various forms, innumerable complexities of admin istrative, traffic and licencing laws are dealt with by a force of 20 oolice officers in a town of 22,000 people.

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