Yau Ma Tei Police Station

Yau Ma Tei Police Station

油麻地警署

Police station

Historic building

Government building

Surroundings

Yau Ma Tei Police Station was first built in 1873 at the intersection between Station Street and Public Square Street, where Henry G. Leong Yau Ma Tei Community Center now situates. The existing Yau Ma Tei Police Station, the oldest in Kowloon, belongs to the second-generation structure erected in 1922. Several new extensions were added to the established structure in 1950 to cater for the growth of police force in Yau Ma Tei after the Second World War. The Station, a government premise, was built along the coast of Yau Ma Tei in the Edwardian style, with granite used as the principal material of construction. The elegant, courtly architecture means to register the authority of the police force.

Hong Kong Police Force

Yau Tsim Mong district

Physical object

1923

Still image

Hong Kong Government