SUNDAY, MARCH 7, 1976
NEW TSUEN WAN FIGHT VIOLENT CRIME COMMITTEE MEETING
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A RE-ORGANISED FIGHT VIOLENT CRIME COMMITTEE HAS BEEN SET UP IN TSUEN WAN AND IS TO HOLD ITS FIRST MEETING ON TUESDAY (MARCH 9).
IT HAS NINE MEMBERS CONSISTING OF A PROMINENT INDUSTRIALIST AS ADVISOR, TWO POLICE OFFICERS, TWO HOUSING MANAGERS, A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, A MUTUAL AID COMMITTEE CHARIMAN, A SOCIAL WORKER AND A SCHOOL HEADMASTER. THE DEPUTY DISTRICT OFFICER, TSUEN WAN, MR. HAROLD KWOK WAI-HONG, IS CHAIRMAN.
MEMBERS HAVE BEEN INVITED TO JOIN THE COMMITTEE FOR TWO YEARS INITIALLY.
IN A LETTER DATED JANUARY 20 TO THE CHARIMEN OF EXISTING N.T. FIGHT VIOLENT CRIME COMMITTEES, THE SECRETARY FOR THE NEW TERRITORIES, MR. DAVID AKERS-JONES, SAID THAT THE COMMITTEES SHOULD BE REACTIVATED AND STRENGTHENED IN CONSIDERATION OF THE IR IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE FIGHT VIOLENT CRIME CAMPAIGN.+
HE WROTE, +I WISH THE DISTRICT FIGHT VIOLENT CRIME COMMITTEES
TO CONCENTRATE ON THE WORK OF COMBATTING CRIME.+
CRIME, HE ADDED, WAS PERHAPS THE BIGGEST SINGLE PROBLEM HONG KONG FACED. +TO COMBAT CRIME SUCCESSFULLY REQUIRES THE FULL SUPPORT OF THE PUBLIC AND THEREFORE THE PART YOUR COMMITTEES WILL PLAY IN THIS RESPECT WILL BE MOST VITAL.
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MR. AKERS-JONES STRESSED THE NEED TO REVITALIZE THE
COMMITTEES, TO STUDY LOCAL CRIME SITUATION AND TO STRENGTHEN
THE LIAISON BETWEEN POLICE, CIVIC BODIES, ORGANISATIONS, AND CITIZENS +WHO ARE TAKING AN INTEREST IN FIGHTING CRIME, PARTICULARLY VILLAGE GUARDS.+
THE LETTER WAS ALSO SENT TO THE NEW TERRITORIES DISTRICT POLICE COMMANDER, THE HEUNG YEE KUK CHAIRMEN AS WELL AS TO 27 RURAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN,
THERE ARE ANTI-CRIME COMMITTEES IN THREE DISTRICTS OF TSUEN WAN WITH A TOTAL MEMBERSHIP OF 24. THEY ARE MAINLY INVOLVED WITH PUBLICITY ASPECTS OF THE FIGHT VIOLENT CRIME CAMPAIGN AND WILL CONTINUE TO FULFIL THIS ROLE. THE NEWLY FORMED COMMITTEE WILL CONCERN ITSELF LARGELY WITH PLANNING MATTERS.
REORGANISING OF OTHER NEW TERRITORIES FIGHT VIOLENT CRIME COMMITTEES IS IN PROGRESS.