Sham Shui Po Police Station

Sham Shui Po Police Station (深水埗警署) situates at the junction of Lai Chi Kok Road and Yen Chow Street, Sham Shui Po. It was built in 1924 with three storeys. It is graded as Grade III historic building.^[1] Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1600 × 1200 pixel, file size: 1,009 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Sham Shui Po Police Station Photograph by en:User:HenryLi File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1600 × 1200 pixel, file size: 1,009 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Sham Shui Po Police Station Photograph by en:User:HenryLi File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on... Sham Shui Po Police Station at Lai Chi Kok Road Lai Chi Kok Road (荔枝角道) is a road from Lai Chi Kok to Tai Kok Tsui/Mong Kok in West Kowloon of Hong Kong. ... Yen Chow Street (欽州街) is a main street in Sham Shui Po of New Kowloon in Hong Kong. ... Skyline of Sham Shui Po Sham Shui Po (Chinese: 深水埗; Cantonese IPA: , Jyutping: sam1 sui2 bo2, Yale: sam seuí bouh; Mandarin Pinyin: shen1 shui3 bu4; lit. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar). ...

The police station is adjacent to former Sham Shui Po Camp and later Dragon Centre. Dragon Centre (西九龍中心) is a shopping centre in the Sham Shui Po district of Kowloon in Hong Kong. ...

Shortly after the British executed the 99-year lease of the New Territory, a police station, also served as the Harbour Master’s Station, was built at Sham Shui Po. British established a base at Sham Shui Po with military camps and police stations as it overlooked the western side of the Victoria Harbour. The current Sham Shui Po Police Station building was completed in 1924 to replace the older station at the area.

The building was built before the war for a population not very large, necessarily without any provision of the almost overnight development of the area industrially and residentially which has happened since the WWII. In addition, large influx of immigrants from mainland China, settling in the area after the war, had forced the district to become one of the worst squatter areas in Hong Kong. Thereby, the Stations had undergone a series of addition and alternation works at different stages to cater for its growing demand of human resources and facilities.

Sham Shui Po Station is still serving its community today even though its role has changed from the station for the whole district to a sub-station in 1967.

See also

• Old Stanley Police Station,built in 1859, a declared monument
• Central Police Station, built in 1864, also a declared monument
• Yau Ma Tei Police Station, built in 1922

The Old Stanley Police Station (舊赤柱警署) was constructed in 1859. ... The Central Police Station is located at Hollywood Road, in Central, Hong Kong. ... Yau Ma Tei Police Station Yau Ma Tei Police Station (油麻地警署) is a police station in Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon, Hong Kong. ...

Reference

1. ^ List of Graded historic buildings in Hong Kong (As at 6 Jan)