Chinese to English Social Sciences Education / Pedagogy Grammatical Analysis

Sentence: 「香港的警察會說英文嗎？」那位外國人問。

First Attempt: The foreigner over there (asked/is asking), "Do they speak English in the Hong Kong Police Association". The foreign-looking gentleman over there wants to know.

Second Attempt: What does 香港的警察會 mean in English? The foreign-looking gentleman over there wants to know.

Question One: Please provide your own translation of the entire sentence. I have ordered these as above, because I believe that 嗎 generally elicits a Yes/No response. Is this correct? Still I am concerned about the use of 說 in this context, but maybe I am being overly cautious.

Question Two: Please provide an explanation for your translation, as clearly there is a grammatical disconnect that I do not understand between the quoted remark and what follows. In effect, both my translations are guesses.

Question Three: Is it common practice in Chinese to use direct quotation where indirect quotation is meant? Certainly many of the sentences that I have translated in this forum use direct quotations, where I would never quote a person directly.

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