MR. YEUNG:
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Government's expense if it is considered that
case is serious enough.
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Apart from the reasons given to us earlier
by the Secretary for Transport, I would be grateful
if he could also answer the second part of my
earlier question
which is
whether
the relatively low number of prosecutions is the
result of the complainants failing or unwilling to
appear as court witnesses?
SECRETARY
FOR
TRANSPORT:
Sir, yes, a number of prosecutions were not able
to be pursued because the complainants were not
willing to come forward as witnesses.
Therefore,
because of this a new procedure was in fact
introduced in May this year whereby when a complaint
to the Transport Complaints Unit, the
is
made
complainant will be asked whether he would
be willing to be a witness in court. If
he is willing, we will arrange for the police
to contact him either at his home, his office or
the nearest police
station.
number of
bring the prosecutions up.
This I hope will