Saturday, September 29, 1973
NEW PATERNS OF CRIMINAL BEHAVIOUR
Changing conditions in our crowded urban society have created
new patterns of criminal behaviour which call for a fresh look at our
penal system, the Secretary for Security, Mr. G.P. Lloyd, said today.
He was speaking at the passing-out parade of some 60 Assistant
Officers of the Prisons Department.
"The particuler problem we face is the growing tendency to vio-
lence among offonders, especially young offenders," he said.
Mr. Lloyd warned that the criminal's tendency to violence might
well remain in prison, and "one obvious safeguard is to avoid the sort of
laxity which may encourage trouble makers to create and exploit oppor-
tunities for mischief,"
However, he reminded the prison officers to temper discipline
with humanity.
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He said: "Your duty is to educate those in your charge to learn
respect for a discipline that is dispensed with justice not to arouse
their resentment for authority."
Mr. Lloyd told the prison officers that they were entrusted with
a vital responsibility to discharge for the benefit of the community,
and if they succeeded, by equipping their charges for a useful role in
society, they would have performed a valuable service for their fellow
man.
Note to Editors:
Copies of Mr. Lloyd speech will be distributed
separately in the G.I.S, press boxes this afternoon.
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