(a) An Officers' Cadre Course held from 19th to 29th June 1967; (b) A Police Motor-cycle Course held from 24th January to 9th
February, 1968;
(c) A one-day Helicopter Training Course held on 8th February
1968;
(d) A Police Traffic Course held from 12th to 24th February 1968.
80. The Auxiliary Police Emergency Units (Hong Kong Island and Kowloon) carried out their annual camps at the Contingent during February and March 1968.
81. Police Training Contingent Companies were heavily committed on a variety of assignments throughout the 1967 disturbances.
PART IV
CRIME AND THE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION
DEPARTMENT
CRIME
82. During the year the total number of reports dealt with by the Police was 489,009 a decrease of 146,042 compared with the preceding year. Of the 489,009 reports dealt with 168,493 disclosed no offence. Reported offences amounted therefore to 320,516 as compared with 422,737 in 1966-67. A breakdown of these reports in the various cate- gories together with comparative figures for the previous four years is shown in Appendix 12. The number of crimes recorded showed an increase of 11.8% over the preceding year; and prosecutions of persons for crime numbered 12,350 an increase of 21.2% over 1966-67. Hawking, obstruction and minor narcotics and traffic offences decreased consider- ably and were mainly responsible for the reduction in the number of offences reported during the year. The appreciable decrease in these types of offences dealt with during the year is largely attributable to the fact that for many months the Force was primarily concerned with carrying out Internal Security duties.
83. An analysis of crime over the past 5 years is also given in Appendix 12 attached. Comparative tables showing cases of crime (excluding minor narcotics offences) reported and detected, and juveniles and adults prosecuted, over the past three years are shown in Appen-
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