THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1925
ON THE OBJECTIVES OF JPC, MR ANNING POINTED OUT THAT APART FROM FIGHTING YOUTH CRIME, JPC WAS PROVIDING A WIDE RANGE OF INTERESTING AND DIVERSE ACTIVITIES FOR THE YOUNG: WAS ENCOURAGING AND GUIDING THE YOUNG TO BECOME CARING AND RESPONSIBLE ADULTS: AND ABOVE ALL ELSE, WAS ESTABLISHING EFFECTIVE AND MEANINGFUL COMMUNICATION AND CONTACT BETWEEN POLICE AND YOUTH.
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'JPC IS BLESSED WITH AN INHERENT PARADOX AS IT GROWS OLDER
IT GETS YOUNGER,''
** MR ANNING CONTINUED.
HE ILLUSTRATED THAT WITH THE EXAMPLE OF LEE KIN-MAN WHO CELEBRATED HIS NINTH BIRTHDAY BY BECOMING THE 400,000TH YOUNG PERSON TO ENROL IN JPC LATE LAST MONTH.
MR ANNING ALSO NOTED THAT ALMOST HALF OF HONG KONG'S BOYS AND GIRLS JOINED JPC AS SOON AS THEY BECAME NINE, AT AN AVERAGE RATE OF OVER 3 000 PER MONTH.
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AMONG MANY CONTRIBUTORY FACTORS, MR ANNING SAID A SIGNIFICANT REASON WHY JPC WAS ABLE TO ACHIEVE SO MUCH, WAS THAT IT HAD INHERITED FROM THE FORCE A CHARACTERISTIC AVERSION TO THAT MOST DEFEATIST OF WORDS - CAN'T".
''TIME AND TIME AGAIN, IN THE PAST 11 YEARS, JPC MEMBERS HAVE PROVED THAT WHEN FACED WITH A CHALLENGE, OR THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE INVOLVED IN A WORTHWHILE ACTIVITY, THEY WILL RESPOND SENSIBLY, RESPONSIBLY AND ENTHUSIASTICALLY, HE SAID.
''THEY WON'T ACCEPT ''NO' FOR AN ANSWER. THEY WILL GET THE JOB DONE."
TODAY'S JPC CENTRAL COUNCIL MEETING WAS ATTENDED BY REPRESENTATIVES OF THE 18 DISTRICT JPC CLUBS WHO DISCUSSED VARIOUS MATTERS CONCERNING ABOUT JPC'S DEVELOPMENT AND ITS ACTIVITIES IN THE PAST AND FUTURE YEARS.
THEY WERE JOINED AT THE LUNCH BY MR HILTON CHEONG-LEEN. CHAIRMAN OF URBAN COUNCIL AND UNOFFICIAL MEMBER OF FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEE, AND SENOIR POLICE OFFICERS INCLUDING THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF POLICE/OPERATIONS, MR LI KWAN-HA.
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