MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1984
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VILLAGERS URGED TO COLLECT MONEY
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A TOTAL OF 196 CHEQUES AMOUNTING TO ABOUT $2.66 MILLION IN EX-GRATIA PAYMENTS FOR TIN SHUI WAI VILLAGERS ARE READY FOR COLLECTION FROM THE YUEN LONG DISTRICT OFFICE.
A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN TODAY URGED THOSE PEOPLE WHO HAD NOT YET COLLECTED THEIR CHEQUES TO DO SO AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
HE REFUTED ALLEGATIONS BY A HANDFUL OF VILLAGERS THAT THEIR CHEQUES WERE NOT READY OR THAT THE AMOUNTS WERE NOT BASED ON FAIR ASSESSMENTS.
+ALL PAYMENTS HAVE BEEN CALCULATED ON THE MOST UP TO DATE RATES APPLICABLE TO ALL DEVELOPMENT CLEARANCES, AND IN EACH CASE THEY HAVE BEEN MOST CAREFULLY ASSESSED, HE SAID.
THE SPOKESMAN ALSO REFUTED CLAIMS THAT SOME VILLAGERS HAD
NOT BEEN OFFERED HOUSING.
+THE VAST MAJORITY HAVE BEEN OFFERED AND HAVE ACCEPTED REHOUSING. ONLY 18 FAMILIES HAVE BEEN FOUND NOT TO BE ELIGIBLE EITHER BECAUSE THEY ALREADY HAVE ALTERNATIVE ACCOMMODATION OR ARE SIMPLY IMPOSTORS.+
PROGRESS IN WAR AGAINST CRIME ****
MUCH PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE IN THE WAR AGAINST CRIME OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS, AND 1983 WAS NO EXCEPTION, SAID COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, MR ROY HENRY, IN HIS ROYAL HONG KONG POLICE REVIEW 1983.
**WITH COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT, GOOD INTELLIGENCE AND WISELY DEPLOYED MANPOWER, POLICE WILL PREVENT THE CRIMINAL FROM ACHIEVING HIS AIM, AND WILL DETECT AND BRING TO JUSTICE THOSE WHO RESORT TO CRIME,'' MR HENRY SAID.
HE WENT ON TO NOTE THAT 1983 WAS A TIME OF INNOVATION AND ACCOMPLISHMENT FOR THE FORCE. AMONG SOME OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS WAS THE COMPLETION OF A MAJOR THREE-PHASE RESTRUCTURING AND REORGANISATION UNDER WHICH THE REMAINING FIVE FORMER POLICE DIVISIONS IN THE NEW TERRITORIES WERE UPGRADED TO DISTRICT STATUS.
THERE WAS ALSO THE COMPLETION OF AN IN-DEPTH REVIEW OF UNIFORM BRANCH DEPLOYMENT, RESULTING IN A DECISION TO IMPROVE AND ENHANCE POLICE COVERAGE AT THE LOCAL LEVEL BY FURTHER REFINING THE NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICING CONCEPT.
THE APPROACH