- 60 -unless he presents a certificate of character and good conduct. If a weapon is seized or is said to have been used in the commission of a crime, a report shall be made against the person in the district where the accused resides, in order to ascertain how he obtained the weapon and whether he had a license for it. Any sheikh who is proven to have facilitated this will be punished. These measures have yielded satisfactory results. In the past year, one arms dealer requested permission to export 400 firearms abroad and to have the customs duties he paid refunded. He was granted permission. Later, another person also requested... and the local reconciliation committees, formed in 1909, resolved disputes and problems. By the end of June, the Ministry of the Interior issued a circular in this regard to the local governors that month, urging them to take action in this matter. As a result, the number of cases resolved by mediation in the remaining months of the year reached 7257. The total strength of the police at the end of 1910 was 397 officers (60 of whom were Sudanese) and 7272 non-commissioned officers and men, an increase of 18 officers and 4642 men compared to 1909. The Council of Legislation was presented with a draft law to amend the administration of the Police School, where 69 students will be trained as officers and 723 students as men. The training period for the former will be four years, and they will be employed within the police force as officers or in administrative roles as assistant officers. The customs and police seized 20,820 kilograms of hashish in 1910, compared to 32,000 kilograms in the previous year. Cases were brought against 2,838 people for using hashish in public places, and convictions were secured in 2,764 of these cases. The number of people licensed in the previous year was 3,331, and those convicted were 3,258. This decrease is attributed to increased vigilance and the fact that hashish is now supplied from public places that the police are targeting without relying on informants, as well as the severe sentences handed down by the various courts. Eighty-eight cases were brought throughout the country, with 77 convictions and 8 acquittals. Three cases are still under consideration. Cases were brought against 228 people for selling alcoholic beverages without a license, and 190 were convicted.