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MR CHAN: And No 2, before you install the computer,
has a study been made to see whether there would be a reduction in staff after having the computer ?
C of P: Well, this was a long time ago and the study was made to go from one computer system to the other and the study
recommended certain criteria at certain levels but it did make
clear that it was based on a transitional period. We would have to wait and see the results of what the new computer system
produced. So there was a study which gave an estimate of staff, 11 certainly, but it was based on a transitional period.
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MR CHAN : Was reduction of staff one of the objectives of such a study before installing the computer system ?
DD (T): Mr Chairman, perhaps I can answer that one ? 17 The overall objective was certainly to reduce staff in terms of
the total staff of judiciary and police involved. But by total
staff, you have got staff at street level, the officer who issues
the ticket, at the station level and the regional level, they were recorded in those days in very large manuals and then eventually
into the Central Traffic Prosecutions Unit. By reducing the workload at the regional level, by producing a more efficient system, the actual overall load of the Central Traffic Prosecutions Unit
Section D in fact increased, and this was because of the more efficient computer system. Overall, between Judiciary and Police, yes, there had to be a reduction in workload releasing staff for 28 other duties, but in Section D the centre-part, because of the more efficient computer a greater workload arose and on top of that new duties came in because people started to complain where 31 they hadn't complained before and these had to be properly looked
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Also, if I could just mention one other duty which might seem rather odd, but by agreement with the Attorney General it was decided that all letters that are posted out from Section D have got to be posted by a police officer and there were no rank and file in the original study permitted for this, so a police officer
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