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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1987
BILL WERE HE SAID HE WAS SATISFIED THAT THE PROVISIONS IN THE ADEQUATE TO SERVE THE INTERESTS OF BOTH THE OFFENDERS AND THE SOCIETY, AND THAT
MIGHT OFFENDERS
UNDER REIMPRISONED
CIRCUMSTANCES.
THE
BE
DIFFERENT
WAS
PROCEEDINGS
TO ENSURE HE SAID IT WAS IMPORTANT TO POINT OUT THAT IN ORDER
TO ONLY THOSE OFFENDERS THAT THE BILL WOULD BE APPLIED JUDICIOUSLY WHO WERE MOST LIKELY TO BENEFIT FROM IT, THE GOVERNOR-IN-COUNCIL VESTED WITH THE POWER TO PRESCRIBE IN THE REGULATIONS THE
AND TO SPECIFY IN THE OF THE RELEASE UNDER SUPERVISION BOARD
TWO GOVERNING THE SCHEDULES TO THE REGULATIONS PROCEDURES AND CONDITIONS MAKING OF A SUPERVISION ORDER.
FOR IN NOTING THAT THE SUCCESS OF THE RELEASE SCHEME PROVIDED
SERVICES, DR HO THE BILL RELIED HEAVILY ON THE QUALITY OF AFTERCARE SAID
AND HE
GUIDANCE THAT WAS GLAD
THE COUNSELLING TO. NOTE
BEEN CONSIDERABLY CAPABILITIES OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICES OFFICERS HAD
OF AS
ESTABLISHMENT ENHANCED IN RECENT YEARS
RESULT OF THE A
TWO INTENSIFIED PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES UNIT AND THE COMMISSIONING OF
CHINESE UNIVERSITY FOR ITS IN-SERVICE TRAINING PROGRAMMES WITH THE OFFICERS.
A
HO RAISED THREE
POINTS
FOR
THE
DR NEVERTHELESS, ADMINISTRATION TO CLARIFY AND TO GIVE FURTHER ASSURANCES.
OF A
FIRSTLY, CLAUSE 10 OF THE BILL PROVIDED THAT SUPERVISION RELEASED OFFENDER WOULD BE CARRIED OUT BY SUCH PERSONS AS SPECIFIED BY THE COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICES.
WILL.
THAN
WHAT
BE
BE APPOINTED TO LOOK "IN PRACTICE, WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE WILL.
BE AFTER THE
THE APPOINTEES
PERSONS OTHER OFFENDERS? OFFICERS OF THE CORRECTIONAL
DEPARTMENT? IF SO, SERVICES QUALIFICATIONS WILL BE REQUIRED OF THE APPOINTEES AND HOW CAN THEY HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ASSIGNED DUTIES?" DR HO ASKED.
CLAUSE SECONDLY,
OF
IF IT APPEARED то BE REIMPRISONED
14(3) PROVIDED FOR THE COMMISSIONER CORRECTIONAL SERVICES TO REVOKE A SUPERVISION ORDER, TO HIM THAT PUBLIC INTEREST REQUIRED AN OFFENDER IMMEDIATELY.
WILL
DR HO THEN ASKED: "WILL THIS LEAD TO POSSIBLE ABUSES OF POWER? CONCEPT
BE UNDER WHAT CONDITIONS
OF 'PUBLIC THIS
INTEREST' INVOKED? HOW DOES THIS PROVISION RECONCILE WITH THE INTERESTS OFFENDER AS AN INDIVIDUAL?'
OF THE
IT
FOUND THIRDLY, DR HO SAID SOME LEGISLATIVE COUNCILLORS HAD
HIS EARNED REMISSION UNDULY HARSH TO REQUIRE AN OFFENDER TO FORFEIT WHEN HE OPTED FOR THE RELEASE UNDER SUPERVISION SCHEME.
HE
"IN SAID:
ORDER TO MAKE THE ATTRACTIVE TO OFFENDERS, THEY PROPOSED THAT THE DEDUCTED FROM THE SUPERVISION PERIOD.
++
SCHEME
MORE FAIRER AND EARNED REMISSION BE
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF
THREE YEARS,
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"THIS PROPOSAL COULD BE CONSIDERED WHEN THE SCHEME IS REVIEWED AFTER A PERIOD OF OPERATION FOR HE ADDED.