I have been still remembered, the first day came into the Royal Hong
Kong Police Training School
Although I had already been set foot on the ground of the Police
Training School for physical test and interview, but I was still felt nervous came
into the school again as I was a police student.
We got off from the police lorry, and fall-in at a place with an
irregular formation; we known its name “the small playground” in later, waiting
for the instructors to roll call our name; at that moment, we started to thing “who
is our instructor, and which style he looks like? In shortly, the image of the
movies about the strictly instructor how to train his students were appearing
in front of my eyes.
I stand beside of my luggage, listening to the roll call of the name of
the students from the trumpet voice of instructor sergeant. At that time, in
the names of the list I heard my name.
I was being allocated to the course of 1195; class Q. The whole term of
students had four classes of male, and one class of female. Each class had 20
students, and the allocation of the class was basically height as a criterion,
rather than qualification; because of the same height, marching in time, it will
be look better than without sizing.
The highest qualification in the Q class was form
7; he was completed the high level of secondary school. At the time, I was the
second youngest in the class; eighteen years and five months old boy.
The first
day of life of the PTS, in fact, didn’t worse than the imagination of my mind.
The head teacher of Q class Mr. Zhao, he was an acting station sergeant,
stature was not tall, but thin. (Acting means temporarily, not official
promotion) The deputy head teacher Mr. Wong was a sergeant, his stature was
shorter than Mr. Zhao, a little fat guy. The responsibility of the head teacher
was to teach the law of Hong Kong and the ordinance
of the Police Force. The deputy head teacher was to teach students how to
marching and shooting.
In that
day, all of the students had an order to cut their hair in consistent standard
by the judge of hair. After that, new students went to the store to draw the
personal equipment led by their deputy head teacher. Everybody using their
hands holding their luggage back to each class quarters, the order will be
according to their number allocated beds and personal lockers.
In these
years, the hostel of the police constables was an independent form of a shaped
four-story building. The staircase was in the middle, on the right was a
student dormitory room , on the left was teaching classroom, and toilet was
next to the middle of the stairs, it just outside the dorm. Each class had
occupied one floor, and responsible to clean the floor everywhere. Stairs, it
will be separated to each class, and responsible to clean by them.
還記得被取錄進入皇家香港警察訓練學校受訓的第一天，所有同期被取錄的學員，都在當天早上到達中環警察總部集合，點名確認之後便乘坐當時的警察「豬籠車」前往黃竹坑警察訓練學校。
雖然在接受體力測試及面試的時候已經踏足過警察訓練學校，但是以受訓學員的身份再次來到，心情依然緊張！
當所有學員在自己稍後知道被稱為小操場的地方下車，以不齊整的列隊方式等候教官點名的時候，心中開始盤算自己的教官將會是如何的模樣。那時候，一幕幕從電視電影中看到的無情教官形象不斷從眼前閃過！
自己站在隨身行李旁邊，留心聽著多名教官依班別分配大聲逐一叫出學警的名字，在這些名單裡，我聽到了自己的名字。
我被編入學警1195期的Q班。這一學期的學警，總共有四班男學警和一班女學警，每班名額20人；編配班別基本上是以身高為準則，而不是以學歷。因為同一的高度，在進行步操的時候，外觀會較好！
Q班學歷最高的是一名中七的同學；而我，就是年紀第二幼嫰，那時是18歲加五個月。
第一天的學堂生活，其實並沒有想像中的糟糕。Q班的正班主任，是一名姓趙的署理警署警長；他身材不算太高，但瘦削。(署理的意思，就是暫時，並不是正式)。副班主任是一名姓黃警長，他身材相比正班主矮，有點兒胖。
正班主任是負責教授香港法例和警隊條例。副班主任就負責訓練步操和射擊。
那天，全部學員都要在學堂接受(髮官)的劃一長度修剪頭髮，之後副班主任便帶領自己的學員分批到學堂貨倉領取學員裝備；各人雙手捧著自己的行裝回到各班的宿舍之後，便按自己的編號先後次序編配睡床和個人儲物柜。
那時候的學警宿舍，是獨立形式的一字型四層樓房，中間是樓梯，右邊是學員宿舍，左邊是教學課室，衛生間設在中間樓梯旁邊，就在學員宿舍門外。每一班各佔用一層樓房，要各自負責該樓層所有地方的清潔；樓梯是各自分層負責。
