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+ IMPLEMENTATION OF THE LAYOUT THEREFORE INVOLVES UPGRADING BY CONVERTING THE TEMPORARY TO THE PERMANENT THROUGH LEASE MODIFICATIONS AND LAND EXCHANGES WITH GOVERNMENT RESUMING SOME LAND TO PROVIDE THE NECESSARY ROADS AND DRAINAGE TO SERVE THE AREA, HE SAID.
MR CHAN SAID PRESENT ARRANGEMENTS PROVIDED DEVELOPERS WITH FLEXIBILITY TO DEVELOP TO A PLOT RATIO OF BETWEEN TWO AND FIVE AND A BUILDING COVENANT PERIOD OF 48 MONTHS.
HOWEVER, HE POINTED OUT, PROGRESS WAS SLOW BECAUSE OF THE CURRENT STATE OF THE INDUSTRIAL LAND MARKET.
THE FEW CROWN LAND SITES WHICH EXISTED IN THE AREA SHOULD BEGIN TO COME ONTO THE MARKET NEXT YEAR, MR CHAN ADDED.
UMELCO GROUP BACKS PROPOSAL ON HANDLING OF COMPLAINTS
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THE UMELCO POLICE GROUP HAS ENDORSED RECOMMENDATIONS BY A WORKING PARTY TO IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY AND WORKING PROCEDURES FOR MONITORING THE HANDLING OF PUBLIC COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE POLICE.
THIS WAS STATED BY HON S.L. CHEN IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY) WHEN TABLING THE REPORT OF THE GROUP FOR 1984 IN HIS CAPACITY AS THE DEPUTY CHAIRMAN.
THESE RECOMMENDATIONS WERE BEING CONSIDERED BY THE ADMINISTRATION, HE SAID.
THE WORKING PARTY, FORMED WITH REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS, THE SECURITY BRANCH, THE POLICE AND THE UMELCO OFFICE, HAD SUBMITTED ITS REPORT AND HAD RECOMMENDED AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE SETTING UP OF A FULL-TIME ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL SECRETARIAT TO SERVICE THE GROUP.
+THE WORKING PARTY HAS ALSO RECOMMENDED THE INTRODUCTION OF A FILTERING SYSTEM UNDER WHICH THE HANDLING OF SERIOUS COMPLAINTS WOULD BE EXAMINED IN DEPTH BY MEMBERS OF THE GROUP, WHILE THE HANDLING OF LESS SERIOUS COMPLAINTS WOULD BE EXAMINED ON BEHALF OF THE GROUP MEMBERS BY THE FULL-TIME SECRETARIAT, WHO WOULD REPORT ITS FINDINGS TO MEMBERS, MR CHEN SAID.
ON THE WORK OF THE GROUP IN 1984, MR CHEN SAID IT HAD EXAMINED A RECORD NUMBER OF POLICE INVESTIGATION REPORTS IN CONTINUATION OF THE TREND WHICH HAD DEVELOPED SINCE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE GROUP IN 1977.
HE THANKED