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SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1988
FIVE MAJOR PROJECTS ALREADY
IN PROCESS OF BECOMING REALITY PO DISTRICT NOW OPERATIONAL; WERE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NEW TAI THE NEW SIU LEK YUEN DIVISION WITHIN SHATIN DISTRICT; THE DIVISION HEADQUARTERS DUE TO OPEN THIS SUMMER; SHATAUKOK
TSING
ISLAND DIVISION, YI OPENED THIS MONTH; AND OPERATIONAL WITHIN THREE MONTHS.
ALSO
NEW BORDER POLICE POST BECOME TO
DIVISION OF
FURTHER PLANS IN THE PIPELINE CULMINATED WITH THE THE NEW TERRITORIES INTO NORTH AND SOUTH REGIONS FIVE YEARS HENCE.
LOOKING INTO THE
FUTURE,
MR. SMALLSHAW EXPLAINED: "SHATIN
COMPRISING SHATIN, WILL EVENTUALLY BECOME A THREE DIVISION DISTRICT, TIN SUM AND SIU LEK YURN.
NEW THE NEW POLICE STATION AT TSING YI, TO BE ESTABLISHED AS A
UPGRADED AS A DISTRICT DIVISION OF KWAI CHUNG, WOULD EVENTUALLY BE HEADQUARTERS FOR THE FAST GROWING INDUSTRIAL AND RESIDENTIAL ISLAND.
ACCOUNT THE ENORMOUS "IT'S A HUGE STATION BUILT TO TAKE INTO
IN POPULATION DEVELOPMENT ON THE ISLAND, WHICH IS RAPIDLY INCREASING BUT HAS NOT YET REACHED THE SCALE FOR ITS POLICE HEADQUARTERS TO AS A DISTRICT.
FOR THE
THE
TSING
OPEN
OF ESTABLISHMENT
YI TO COMPENSATE
NEW CHUNG DISTRICT, WOULD DIVISION, SHEUNG KWAI CHUNG, NOW PART OF KWAI
LEI MUK SHUE, GIVING THE DISTRICTS TRANSFER TO TSUEN WAN AS
TWO
DIVISIONS EACH.
A NEW TSUEN WAN DISTRICT WOULD MOVE INTO
ΤΟ NEW TERRITORIES TRAFFIC CONSTRUCTED ADJACENT EXPECTED TO BE READY FOR OCCUPATION IN TWO YEARS.
HEADQUARTERS BEING AND HEADQUARTERS
URGENCY IN GETTING MR. SMALLSHAW WENT ON: "THERE IS A LOT OF
FAR TSUEN WAN POLICE STATION FINISHED BECAUSE THE PRESENT BUILDING IS
THE SITE OF TOO SMALL AND PART I CULARLY BECAUSE ITS PRESENT SITE IS THE NEW REGIONAL SOUTH HEADQUARTERS.
"
THE PROPOSED REGIONAL NORTH HEADQUARTERS WOULD BE AT TAI PO.
THE REGIONAL COMMANDER ADDED: REQUIREMENTS IS WITH US ALL THE TIME STATIONS OPENING AT ONCE.
"BUT IT RECOGNISES THE
то INCREASE MANPOWER "THE NEED
WE DON'T OFTEN GET FIVE POLICE
J
POPULATION GROWTH
TERRITORIES, NOW 100,000 A YEAR, AND WE HAVE TO INCREASE WITH THAT.
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FURTHER EXPANSION WOULD TAKE PLACE
IN THE NEW COMMENSURATE
IN POLICE TACTICAL INIT,
BORDER
WHEN POLICE TOOK OVER RESPONSIBILITIES AT THE BY THE ARMY, AND A SECOND NEW TERRITORIES EMERGENCY BE MOUNTED.
NOW UNDERTAKEN UNIT WOULD ALSO
/FOLLOWING THE