Subject
3. *Fight Crime
Committee
Purpose
(a) To plan and coordinate
efforts to assist the Police to combat crime.
(b) To keep under review
the state of crime and law enforcement, and advise on priorities as seen by the public.
(c) To identify causes
of crime.
(d) To consider legisla- tive and administra- tive measures to combat crime.
Progress Made & Present Position
Target for Next Quarter
The re-vamped FCC met on 16.6.82 and decided that :-
(a) the Committee should assume
a more active role in advising the Government and DFCCs on measures to be taken to combat crime; and
(b) before considering the
need for sub-committees, it would be necessary to up-date the Study on Social Causes of Crime and to review the effective- ness of District Fight Crime Committees.
(a) To up-date the study
on social causes of crime.
(b) To review the
activities and effectiveness of the District Fight Crime Committees.
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4. *Land Traffic
Links with China Working Group. Regulation of the Shum Chun River Working Group.
To coordinate depart- mental action to maintain progress and momentum in the development of agreed cross border links with China, and in the regulation of the Shum Chun River.
These are two of four working groups under the main Hong Kong- China Economic Committee
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(a) on land traffic links, the
surveyors of both sides met on 19.7.82 to discuss survey details and this was followed by a joint survey at Lo Wu on 23.7.82; and
(b) the Shum Chun River Working
Group has split into 2 sub-groups dealing with Pollution and Flood Control respectively. The former has met once.
(a) a joint survey at Lok
Ma Chau is scheduled for August and this will be followed by a Joint Working Group meeting.
(b) the 2 sub-groups to
continue their deliberations with
site visits, if necessary.
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