HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL — 25 May 1988
1457
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The following papers were laid on the table pursuant to Standing Order 14(2):
Subject
Subsidiary Legislation:
L.N. No.
Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance
Hawker (Urban Council) (Amendment) By-laws 1988
146/88
Shipping and Port Control Ordinance
Shipping and Port Control Ordinance (Exemption) (No. 2) Notice 1988
147/88
Sessional Paper 1987-88:
No. 62 Report of the Police Complaints Committee 1987
Address by Member presenting paper
Report of the Police Complaints Committee 1987
DR. TSE: Sir, on behalf of both the old and the new Police Complaints Committee, may I table the committee's annual report for 1987.
The committee is an independent monitoring group first appointed by Your Excellency's predecessor in early 1986 to take over the work previously performed by the former UMELCO Police Group. It comprises one chairman and two vice-chairmen, all drawn from the OMELCO, and nine Justices of the Peace, with the Attorney General as the only official representative on the committee. I feel honoured to have been appointed chairman by you, Sir, in January this year to succeed Mr. S. L. CHEN.
The year 1987 was one of further consolidation and development of the work the committee had undertaken in 1986. The committee, through the support of an independent secretariat, had been able to vet in detail each and every complaint case processed by the Complaints Against the Police Office of the Royal Hong Kong Police Force. During the year under report, the committee had examined a total of 3 997 complaint cases, embracing 6 117 allegations. During the process of vetting these complaint cases, the committee had also proposed a number of reviews of, and changes to police practices, procedures and instructions with a view to improving the overall effectiveness of the complaints system and helping the Commissioner of Police in identifying and rectifying areas which were perceived as conducive to the generation of public complaints.