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the third year running, six summer camps were held for secondary school boys who took part in outdoor activities on Outward Bound lines.
The reorganised and expanded Planning and Research Division was active in examining various aspects of police operations and administration. Twenty-three major studies were completed on a wide range of subjects; the division is currently engaged in long and short term studies aimed at improving techniques, methods, procedures and equipment.
Buildings completed during 1970 included a new Waterfront Police Station, the third stage of the new Police Training School at Aberdeen and Police Inspectorate Quarters in Kowloon. Prog- ress was made with construction of Stage III of Police Head- quarters and quarters for married inspectors on the island. At the end of the year there were 48 police projects in the Public Works Programme. Planning was well advanced on a new District Head- quarters for the New Territories, a depot for the Police Tactical Unit at Lung Cheung Road and another at the Police Training School as well as divisional stations at North Point, Kwai Chung and Frontier. Other projects in the advanced planning stage in- cluded sub-divisional stations at Shing Wo Road, Chai Wan, Tsz Wan Shan, Ngau Tau Kok, Ping Che Road, Hang Hau and Stanley, a Police Motor Transport Service Station and Police Driving School at Lung Cheung Road, a new headquarters for the Police Dog Unit at Lung Cheung Road and a sub-unit at Kai Tak Airport, and a new Drill Hall for Auxiliary Police in Kowloon.
CRIME
Crimes committed rose by 14 per cent over 1969. Altogether 29,052 cases were reported to police, of which 22,241 were detected; the detection rate was 76.6 per cent as compared to 75.6 per cent in 1969. Some categories of crime however showed an apparent decrease in the detection rate because of changes in the law effected by the Theft Ordinance which came into effect on September 1, 1970. For example the taking of a vehicle without authority is now classified as a crime. In such cases the vehicle is usually quickly recovered after being abandoned, but the crime is classified as undetected if no person is arrested and convicted.
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