A five
Question No. 4
Crime rate among
Vietnamese
refugees
Qral Reply by
The Hon G T Barnes, J.P., Secretary for Security to a question from Hon Ms Selina Chow, OBE, JP for the
Legislative Council meeting of 9 March 1988
4. MRS. CHOW asked:
Question
Will the Government inform this Council how the crime rate in the last years for Vietnamese refugees accommodated in open damps compares with the overall crime rate for the population of Hong Kong and whether this will have implications for Government's policy towards Vietnamese refugees?
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SECRETARY FOR SECURITY:
Reply
Sir,
Expressed in terms of the number of offenders
Sever
per 1000 of the population aged and over, the crime
rate among Vietnamese refugees in the open centre has
been consistently higher than that for the population as
tive
a whole over the past 5 years, as illustrated in the
tree Appendix I.
table of figures annexed to the written version of this-
reply. However, a direct comparison is difficult since
the Vietnamese refugee population has a higher
to
proportion of males in the ages 16,30 than there is in