WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1986
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UMELCO POLICE GROUP TABLES FINAL REPORT
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THE UMELCO POLICE GROUP (UPG) EXAMINED A RECORD NUMBER OF POLICE INVESTIGATION REPORTS IN 1985 IN CONTINUATION OF THE TREND WHICH HAS DEVELOPED SINCE THE GROUP WAS FIRST ESTABLISHED IN 1977, THE GROUP'S CHAIRMAN, THE HON S.L. CHEN, SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
TABLING THE GROUP'S LAST ANNUAL REPORT IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, MR CHEN SAID THE NUMBER OF NEW CASES REGISTERED BY THE COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE POLICE OFFICE IN 1985 SHOWED A SLIGHT INCREASE OVER THAT OF 1984 AND, AS IN 1984, A HIGH PROPORTION OF THE NEW CASES WERE REPORTED DIRECTLY TO THE POLICE.
MR CHEN RECALLED THAT THE GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED LAST DECEMBER THAT THE UPG WOULD BE RECONSTITUTED EARLY THIS YEAR WITH A VIEW TO FURTHER STRENGTHENING ITS MONITORING CAPABILITY.
THE RECONSTITUTED GROUP, RENAMED THE POLICE COMPLAINTS COMMITTEE, HAD A CHAIRMAN AND TWO VICE-CHAIRMEN DRAWN FROM UMELCO AND EIGHT MEMBERS DRAWN FROM A POOL OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, HE SAID.
MR CHEN SAID THE POLICE COMPLAINTS COMMITTEE WAS NO LONGER BE A UMELCO BODY AND ITS SECRETARIAT OPERATED TO ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES AS A SEPARATE DEPARTMENT.
+CONCURRENT WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NEW POLICE COMPLAINTS COMMITTEE, NEW MONITORING PROCEDURES HAVE BEEN INTRODUCED, + HE ADDED.
MR CHEN PAID TRIBUTE TO THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE AND ALL OFFICERS IN THE COMPLAINTS AND INTERNAL INVESTIGATION BRANCH FOR THEIR CO-OPERATION AND ASSISTANCE RENDERED TO THE OLD GROUP AND TO THE NEW COMMITTEE.
MEANWHILE, ACCORDING TO THE UPG ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1985 PUBLISHED TODAY, THE ON-DUTY ATTITUDE OF POLICE OFFICERS CONTINUED TO BE THE MAIN SUBJECT OF COMPLAINT AGAINST THE POLICE LAST YEAR.
THE REPORT STATES THAT DURING THE YEAR, THE UPG EXAMINED 4 080 INVESTIGATION REPORTS OF THE COMPLAINTS AGAINST POLICE OFFICE (CAPO), WHICH EMBRACED 5 922 SEPARATE POINTS OF COMPLAINT.
/THE LARGEST
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