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36. Police headquarters are in Jerusalem, where also is the police depot and training centre. The headquarters of the Police Mobile Force are at Jenin. There is a Criminal Investigation Department (headquarters in Jerusalem) with a fingerprints section and forensic laboratories. The Port and Marine police operate sea-going motor launches. The force has its own motor transport section, at Haifa. The District police are organized in six divisions. There are 67 police stations and 42 police posts. At most of the important centres throughout the country (outside the four main towns) the police are accommodated in special buildings constructed between 1939 and 1944.

37. The department of Posts and Telegraphs has its headquarters at the General Post Office in Jerusalem. The main international telephone exchange is at Ramie. There are post and telegraph offices in all important centres, those in the main towns being in charge of Postmasters. The telephone trunk system extends equally to all centres of importance in the country and there is demand for its further extension. Telegraphic traffic overseas passes through Messrs. Cable and Wireless Ltd., at Haifa and through Egypt. Traffic in 1944

Letters, etc. handled Inland parcels

Telegrams received and dispatched Telephone instruments

Telephone local calls

Telephone trunk calls

Telegraph and telephone local lines, kms. Telegraph and telephone trunk lines, kms.

45,826,400 119,000 961. 798 22,580 42,962,878 4,860,517 168,041 38,407

38. Printing and Stationery are in the charge of the Government Printer, whose organization is, administratively, a branch of the Secretariat. The Palestine Gazette (in the three official languages), incorporating all Government enactments as well as important public matters, is published weekly at the Government Press, extraordinary gazettes being published as requisite. Most Government reports are also published by the Government Printer.

39. The Prisons Department was established under a Commissioner in 1945, prisons having up to that time been administered by the police. There are in use two central prisons, at Jerusalem and Acre; the women's prison at Bethlehem; two jail labour camps at Nur esh Shems and Athlit; and fifteen district lock-ups. Detention camps at Latrun and (for women) at Bethlehem are also administered by the Commissioner of Prisons. The boys' remand home has also been run by the Prisons administration, but arrangements are in train for its transfer to the Department of Social

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