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The Accidental Prawn : “Interesting Times” – Policing 20th Century Hong Kong - 2nd Edition

Author :  Guy Sanderson Shirra

Product Details

Country
Hong Kong
Publisher
Sheriff Books, Hong Kong
ISBN 9789881453280
Format HardBound
Language English
Year of Publication 2019
Bib. Info 192p.
Product Weight 400 gms.
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"The Accidental Prawn” - Interesting Times - Policing 20th Century Hong Kong is an autobiography by Guy Sanderson Shirra who arrived in Hong Kong in 1967 as a Probationary Inspector of Police fresh from a VSO teaching post in Sarawak. After a 3 month Cantonese course, he was thrown in the deep end of the 1967 Confrontation. The book covers his early years in the UK, his time in Sarawak and his 30 years in the Royal Hong Kong Police serving in CID, the Tai Kwun and Special Branch and commanding in Tsim Sha Tsui and both the West Kowloon Emergency and Tactical Units before taking voluntary early retirement as a Superintendent in June 1997.

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