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DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
Wednesday, November 15, 1972
TOUGH NEW MEASURES ANNOUNCED TO COMBAT CRIME
The Attorney General, the Hon D.T.E. Roberts, announced today
that the Government proposes to adopt a number of tougher measures to coubet
the substantial growth of violent crime in Hong Kong.
He said the time had come "for us to take a harsher view" and
the proposed measures will make it clear that the Government is as gravely
concerned with the present level of violent crime as the community at large.
He was speaking in the Legislative Council on a motion of thanks
for the Governor's address given last month at the opening of the Council's
new session.
The proposed measures are:
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To provide a mandatory sentence of at least six months imprisonment or a detention order for people found guilty of possessing offensive weapons in public places illegally or without reasonable excuse;
To increase the maximum sentence for such an offence from two years to three years;
To empower any police officer to stop and search any person for offensive weapons in a public place at any time; and
To set up a scheme for the compensation of victims of violent crimes.
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