Crime, Justice, and Punishment in Colonial Hong Kong: Central Police Station, Central Magistracy, and Victoria Gaol, edited by May Holdsworth and Christopher Munn. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2020. ix+331 pp. US$49.00 (cloth).

2021 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 234-236
Author(s):  
Børge Bakken
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Police Station ◽  
Central Police

Making Heritage in Hong Kong: A Case Study of the Central Police Station Compound

2010 ◽  
Vol 202 ◽  
pp. 381-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnes Shuk-mei Ku
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Spatial Politics ◽  
Police Station ◽  
The People ◽  
Central Police

AbstractThis article is a case study of state–society–capital conflicts over the preservation of the Central Police Station (CPS) compound in Hong Kong during 2003–08. The conflict was between two fundamentally different approaches to urban space: a cultural economy approach that took culture and space as a source of economic profit, and an opposition discourse of preservation that emphasized cultural, historical and humanistic values as an end. The struggle turned out to be a moderate success for anti-commercialism. Drawing on and extending the notions of collective memory and spatial politics, this article examines how the various civil society actors, in their struggle against commercialism, sought to define and enhance the cultural value of the site through a variety of discourses and practices relating to history and space. It addresses the specific question of why and how certain constructions of collective memory succeed (or fail) to work with certain places in particular instances. The study shows that memories of the CPS compound contained both state-associated and people-associated accounts, between which the former prevailed. The state-associated account was embedded in a familiar, hegemonic story about Hong Kong, which, via an abstract process of symbolization around the notion of the rule of law, successfully turned the compound into an iconic symbol of identification for the city. Beyond this, the civil society actors sought also to generate a sense of lived space associated with the people, and the outcome was mixed.

scholarly journals Recent developments in devices for seismic isolation

1992 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. J. Cousins ◽  
W. H. Robinson ◽  
G. H. McVerry
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Seismic Isolation ◽  
Performance Characteristics ◽  
Printing Press ◽  
Police Station ◽  
Capacitor Banks ◽  
Rubber Bearing ◽  
Lead Rubber Bearing ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Central Police

Significant extensions to the technology for seismic-isolation were required for three recent applications in New Zealand. The structures isolated were a new Central Police Station in Wellington, a printing press hall built in Petone for Wellington Newspapers Ltd., and capacitor banks at Haywards substation near Lower Hutt. In each case the isolating devices were tested to verify their performance characteristics. This paper presents the results of the testing. The devices were a lead-extrusion damper rated at 250 kN load ± 400 mm stroke, a lead-rubber bearing measuring 609 mm x 609 mm x 460 mm, and a steel taper-beam damper rated at 10.6 kN load ± 200 mm stroke.

scholarly journals Assessment and examination

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 405-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Jolly
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Taxi Driver ◽  
The West ◽  
Police Station ◽  
Mental Health Act ◽  
Northern City ◽  
Central Police

A 19-year-old student, wandering the streets of a Northern city, is picked up at 3am by a taxi driver. The student requests delivery to a fictitious destination. The student recounts to the driver a series of events including abandonment by parents at the age of six in a forest in the West Country, and subsequent adoption by an elderly couple who live in Birmingham. The taxi driver takes the student to the central police station, where, after a brief interview, sectioning under the Mental Health Act 1983 takes place.

JOHANNESBURG CENTRAL POLICE STATION AND THE PHOTOGRAPH AS EVIDENCE

2021 ◽  
pp. 83-105
Author(s):  
SALLY GAULE
Keyword(s):  
Police Station ◽  
Central Police
Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document