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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1987
UN
THE HE SAID THAT IN NOVEMBER LAST YEAR,
ATTORNEY GENERAL HAD ISSUED GUIDELINES TO THE INDEPENDENT COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION
FOR ICAC OFFICERS OCCASIONS WHEN IT MIGHT BE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST FORMALLY TO CAUTION ADULT OFFENDERS RATHER THAN TO PROSECUTE THEM.
VERY HAD ISSUED
MR JFAFFRESON POINTED OUT THAT THESE GUIDELINES FOLLOWED CLOSELY THOSE WHICH THE HOME OFFICE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM IN 1985.
ΤΟ
ON WHETHER OR NOT I MUST STRESS THAT THE DECISION HERE
COMMISSIONER CAUTION RESTS WITH THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AND NOT WITH THE AGAINST CORRUPTION," HE ADDED.
GOVERNMENT HAD CONSIDERED
IN
TO
DO SO AFTER
HE SAID THAT EARLIER THIS YEAR THE INTRODUCING SIMILAR GUIDELINES FOR ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT DEPARTMENTS ON USING A FORMAL CAUTION AS AN ALTERNATIVE
AND HAD DECIDED NOT
THE GOVERNMENT
PROSECUTING ADULT OFFENDERS CAREFUL CONSIDERATION.
סין
KONG BASICALLY WAS
HE POINTED OUT THAT THE SITUATION IN HONG RATHER DIFFERENT FROM WHAT IT WAS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.
"IN HONG KONG THE
PROVIDE A ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS ΤΟ WHICH THE POLICE AND CENTRAL PROSECUTING AUTHORITY
THE OTHER ADVICE ON WHETHER ΤΟ DISCIPLINED FORCES HAVE EASY ACCESS FOR QUICK PROSECUTE IN INDIVIDUAL CASES, HE EXPLAINED.
"
SUCH IN THE BUT THERE IT WOULD NOT
AS SCHEME MK JEAFFRESON SAID: "THERE IS NO NEW INITED KINGDOM COVERING THE CAUTIONING OF ADULT OFFENDERS, IS A WELL-ESTABLISHED SYSTEM THERE FOR CAUTIONING WHEN MAKE SENSE TO PROSECUTE.
DECIDING THE POLICE HAD ALWAYS HAD TO EXERCISE COMMON SENSE IN
TO MINOR OFFENCES. WEETRER TO LAY CHARGES, PARTICULARLY IN RELATION
ISSUED GUIDELINES TO THEIR INDIVIDUAL CHIEF CONSTABLES HAD
POLICE
OFFICERS ON HOW TO USE THEIR DISCRETION,
IN FEBRUARY 1985 THE HOME
OFFICE RECOMMENDED GUIDELINES
IN CONSISTENCY
то
DECIDING WHEN TO
ALL CHEF CONSTABLES TO ENCOURAGE ISSUE A CAUTION, BOTH TO JUVENILE AND TO ADULT OFFENDERS.
·
ti
ADULT
BRIEFLY, THE GUIDELINES ARE AIMED MAINLY AT THE SORT OF OFFENDER WHO IT WOULD NOT ALWAYS MAKE SENSE TO PROSECUTE, FOR EXAMPLE, THE MENTALLY ILL, WHEN THE THE ELDERLY, THE INFIRM, THE YOUNG AND
HE SAID. CERCUMSTANCES OF THE CRIME ARE NOT PARTICULARLY SERIOUS,
ALL IN
CASES THE GUIDELINES THE HOME OFFICE EVIDENCE MUST
FOR STATE THAT THE
BE SUFFICIENT
PROSECUTION, OFFENDER MUST ADMIT THE OFFENCE AND HE MUST AGREE TO BE CAUTIONED, SAID.
** BUT
ISSUED
THE
HE
THE CAUTION WILL BE RECORDED AND MAY BE USED IN MAKING PROSECUTION DECISIONS.'
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