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Wednesday, November 15, 1972
The Government will also consider instituting other measures.
These include:
The re-introduction of a form of rigorous imprisonment for people convicted of violent crimes;
To introduce a preventive detention system to remove "habitual criminals" from society for long periods;
To introduce compulsory corporal punishment for specified offences; and
To introduce minimum sentences for robbery or serious assaults.
Mr. Roberts said these proposed measures showed the part the
Government was taking to deal with the problem. "But we cannot do it
alone
crime cannot be kept within acceptable bounds unless every member
of the community is prepared to do what he can to help."
A person has a public duty to report a crime, even if it might
be inconvenient and take a lot of time, if he wishes to see crime contained,
he said.
The Attorney General said the Commissioner of Police was re-examining
the procedures in force in his stations in an effort to reduce the
inconvenience to people who attend to report crime, "but there will always
be a measure of inconvenience remaining".
Mr. Roberts pointed out that during the past generation "we in
Hong Kong have prided ourselves on an increasingly liberal and humane
attitude towards the treatment of wrongdoers.".
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