18th century Police Station, Kota Road, Taiping, Perak, Malaysia.
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Initially
built of timber in 1881 "at a point about equidistant from the Chinese
theatre, the market and other much frequented places". The fortified clocktower,
with chamfered slits for guns, was probably erected some years later. The
police station doubled as a fire station. The first fire brigade in the
FMS was made up of members of the Perak Armed Police and later the Malay
States Guides.
The clocktower is currently situated along Jalan Kota in the town
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