Supplementary to Question No. 10 in the
Legislative Council on 29 May 1985
Mr. CHEUNG Yan-lung asked in Cantonese :
督憲閣下,根據九廣鐵路公司所得的統計 數字顯示,一九八四年內,據報在九廣鐵路 範圍內發生的罪案,共有二百三十七宗同 期內,據報在地下鐵範圍內發生的罪案共 十三宗;以每 萬九廣鐵路 乘 及相同數目的地下鐵乘客單位計算, 的比例是前者數字比後者大六倍,根 上述的數字,政府是否認為有足夠理由將
下鐵路的警察隊擴展,包括九廣鐵路在內?
(The following is the interpretation of what Mr. CHEUNG Yan-lung asked.)
Sir, according to the KCR statistics for 1984 the crimes reported in the KCR
premises is 237 cases and the figure for MTR was 213 cases. For onelevery
million KCR passengers and the same number of MTR passengers it seems that the
crime rate in the case of the former is six times higher than that of the latter.
According to such statistics, does the Government think that there is sufficient
reason to expand the MTR police unit to the KCR as well ?
Secretary for Security : My honourable friend is quite right. The crime per
that
passenger on the KCR is much higher than on the MTR. But we're talking, Sir, passenger on the KCR is much higher than
about 90 million passengers for 1985 (estimated) on the KCR and 580 million on
the MTR for 1985. 580 million passengers justify in the view of the police a unit
dedicated to the MTR. 90 million they don't think does and I'm inclined to agree
with them. But that doesn't alter the fact that they deploy more police per
passenger on the KCR by a fair margin than they do on the MTR. But can I repeat,
Sir, if these conditions get worse on the KCR the police will certainly give
this idea, if I may say so, third thought.