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WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1974
AS TO THE NUMBER OF BUILDINGS WHICH ARE WITHOUT MANAGEMENT COMMITTEES, MR. LIGHTBODY SAID THIS WAS NOT EASILY ASCERTAINED BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT DID NOT HAVE DETAILED INFORMATION READY TO HAND ON NUMBERS OF INDIVIDUAL BLOCKS OF DIFFERENT HEIGHTS AND USE.
+HOWEVER, WE CAN SAY THAT ACUTE MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS ARE GENERALLY CONFINED TO DOMESTIC BUILDINGS OF OVER SIX-STOREYS, WHERE THERE IS A LIFT SERVICE AND MORE COMMON PARTS THAN ARE FOUND IN LOWER BLOCKS.
+ IF WE USE THIS DEFINITION, THEN THERE ARE AT LEAST 2,000 MULTI-STOREY DOMESTIC BUILDINGS WITHOUT ONE OR OTHER OF THESE FORMS OF MANAGEMENTS,+ HE SAID.
DETENTION CENTRES SEEM TO WORK
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THE NEW-TYPE DETENTION CENTRES APPEAR TO BE ACHIEVING THE IR OBJECT OF DETERRING THE VERY GREAT MAJORITY OF YOUNG OFFENDERS FROM COMMITTING FURTHER OFFENCES, ACCORDING TO THE SECRETARY FOR SECURITY, THE HON. LEWIS DAVIES.
SPEAKING IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, HE SAID THAT OF THE 708 DETAINEES DISCHARGED FROM THE CENTRES BETWEEN JUNE 1972 AND JUNE 28 THIS YEAR ONLY 48 HAD BEEN RE-CONVICTED... THIS REPRESENTED ABOUT 6.5 PER CENT OF TOTAL ADMISSIONS. IN ADDITION, 33 DETAINEES HAD BEEN RECALLED, WHILE STILL UNDER SUPERVISION, FOR FAILING TO COMPLY WITH SUPERVISION ORDERS.
SINCE THE FIRST CENTRE WAS SET UP IN JUNE 1972, A TOTAL OF 978 DETAINEES HAVE BEEN ADMITTED. OF THESE 346 HAVE COMPLETED THEIR SUBSEQUENT SUPERVISION PERIOD AND 362 ARE STILL UNDER SUPERVISION.
REPLY ING TO A QUESTION FROM THE HON. P.G. WILLIAMS, MR. DAVIES SAID THAT WHEN THE CENTRES WERE ESTABLISHED IT WAS DECIDED THAT AN EVALUATION OF THEIR SUCCESS SHOULD BE CARRIED OUT AFTER TWO YEARS.
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+TO THIS END THE PRISONS DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN KEEPING THE NECESSARY RECORDS AND, IN CO-OPERATION WITH THE CRIMINAL RECORDS OFFICE OF THE ROYAL HONG KONG POLICE FORCE HAS KEPT A CHECK ON RE-CONVICTIONS.
+THE COMMISSIONER OF PRISONS IS NOW PREPARING A REPORT WHICH SHOULD BE AVAILABLE SHORTLY, MR. WILLIAMS SAID.
HE SAID HE COULD NOT ANTICIPATE THE CONTENTS OF THE REPORT BUT FELT THAT FROM THE FIGURES OF RE-CONVICTIONS IT APPEARED THAT THE DETENTION CENTRES WERE ACHIEVING THE IR OBJECT.
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