香港布政司署
His Excellency Sir Edward Youde,
GCMG, MBE,
Government House,
HONG KONG.
CHIEF SECRETARY'S OFFICE, GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT, HONG KONG
10 December 1985
Your Excellency,
The Fight Crime Committee was reconstituted in May 1983 with expanded terms of reference, one of which stipulates that the Committee should report progress to Your Excellency every six months.
It was considered then that regular reports would help to ensure that good progress was made by the Committee. Four reports have since then been submitted to Your Excellency. These reports have also been circulated to Members of the Executive Council and a shortened version distributed to District Fight Crime Committees and to the press.
We
We now feel that six-monthly reports are too frequent and annual reports are more appropriate. have disposed of the easier issues and are now tackling the more difficult ones. Inevitably progress is going to be slower with probably insufficient progress to justify reporting every six months. We recommend that the frequency of reporting to Your Excellency be changed to once yearly.
We now have the honour to submit our fifth report, which covers the work we have undertaken from May to October 1985 and the action we are planning for the future.
In the following paragraphs are summarised the main points in each chapter :
PART ONE
Chapter I - The crime situation in the first three quarters of 1985
There was a 2.9% decrease in reported crime in 1984 compared with 1983. In the first three quarters of 1985 there was a 3.4% increase in reported crime over the same period in 1984.