Police force of the Shanghai International Settlement (1854-1943)
Shanghai Municipal Police
Flag of the Shanghai Municipal Council
Abbreviation
SMP
Motto
Latin: Omnia Juncta In Uno All joined as one
Agency overview
Formed
September 1854
Dissolved
31 July 1943
Employees
4,739 (1936)
3,466 (Chinese branch)
457 (foreign branch)
558 (Sikh branch)[1]
258 (Japanese branch)
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction
Shanghai International Settlement
Map of police area (red)
Size
22.598 km2 (8.725 sq mi)
Population
1,074,794m (1934)
Legal jurisdiction
Shanghai International Settlement
Governing body
Shanghai Municipal Council
General nature
Civilian police
Operational structure
Headquarters
Central Police Station, Foochow Road, Shanghai
Child agencies
Reserve Unit (1925)
Special Branch (1898)
Shanghai Municipal Gaol
Russian Auxiliary Detachment (1941)
Facilities
Stations
14
Shanghai Municipal Police
Traditional Chinese
上海公共租界工部局警務處
Simplified Chinese
上海公共租界工部局警务处
Literal meaning
Shanghai Public Foreign Concession Ministry of Works Office Police Affairs Department
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Shànghǎi Gōnggòng Zūjiè Gōng Bù Jú Jǐng Wù Chù
Wade–Giles
Shang-hai Kung-kung Tsu-chieh Kung Pu Chü Ching Wu Ch'u
The Shanghai Municipal Police (SMP; Chinese: 上海公共租界工部局警務處) was the police force of the Shanghai Municipal Council which governed the Shanghai International Settlement between 1854 and 1943, when the settlement was retroceded to Chinese control.
Initially composed of Europeans, most of them Britons, the force included Chinese after 1864, and was expanded over the next 90 years to include a Sikh Branch (established 1884), a Japanese contingent (from 1916) and a volunteer part-time special police (from 1918). In 1941, it acquired a Russian Auxiliary Detachment (formerly the Russian Regiment of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps).
^Pages 229 & 231, "Red Turbans on the Bund: Sikh Migrants, Policemen and Revolutionaries in Shanghai 1886-1945", Cao Yin, National University of Singapore 2016
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