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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1988
IT WAS STRENGTHENED IN CO-ORDINATORS, POLICE SERGEANTS INTRODUCED.
1984 WHEN TRAINED IN PUBLIC
RELATIONS,
NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICE WERE
THE NPO SCHEME WORKED THROUGH THE POLICE CO-ORDINATORS, WHO WERE NORMALLY BASED AT NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICE OFFICES AND WERE AVAILABLE FOR CONSULTATION WITH LOCAL RESIDENTS AT SET TIMES.
ALL NPO WERE INCLUDED IN THE BEATS OF THEIR PARTICULAR POLICE USUALLY DIVISION AND WERE MANNED REGULARLY BY A PATROLLING CONSTABLE, FOR ABOUT 15 MINUTES IN EVERY HOUR.
THE NPO WOULD BE CLOSED WHEN THE CONSTABLE WAS AWAY ON PATROL BUT MOST HAD A PUBLIC TELEPHONE FOR 999 CALLS.
THE EXAMPLE, HOWEVER, MANNING OF NPO MIGHT VARY. FOR THE STAR FERRY CONCOURSE ON HONG KONG ISLAND WAS OPEN AS LONG STAR PERRY WAS OPERATING.
NPO AT AS THE
POLICE UNITS WERE HAD MISGIVINGS WHEN THE
NEIGHBOURHOOD MR BARNES SAID THAT THE OLD POPULAR WITH LOCAL RESIDENTS AND MANY SCHEME WAS INTRODUCED.
NEW
"BUT THERE ARE NOW MORE NPO THAN IN 1984 AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
GOOD RELATIONS POLICE CO-ORDINATORS HAVE ESTABLISHED VERY
WITH THE COMMUNITIES WHICH THEY SERVE," HE SAID.
CONSIDERS THAT
THE PUBLIC HAVE POLICE
"THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE ACCEPTED THE CHANGES THE APPRECIATE THAT THE NEW SCHEME ALLOWS RESOURCES TO BE DEPLOYED MORE EQUITABLY AND EFFECTIVELY.
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MR BARNES SAID THE NPO SCHEME WAS REVIEWED AT THE END AND AGAIN IN LATE 1987.
OF 1984
IN 1984, THE CONCLUSION WAS THAT
HAD THE REORGANISATION RESOURCES; POLICE
GENERAL CRITICISM BY ALLOWED BETTER USE OF
THE BE FITTED PUBLIC HAD BEEN MINOR; AND THAT EXTERNAL TELEPHONES SHOULD FOR THE PUBLIC TO CALL 999 WHEN THE NPO WAS CLOSED.
THAT THE "THE 1987 REVIEW CONFIRMED
OF
MANPOWER, POLICE EFFECTIVE USE
PUTTING STREETS AND GIVING MORE EVEN POLICE COVERAGE
HE SAID.
NPO
SCHEME IS A MORE MORE
ON OFFICERS
THE THROUGHOUT HONG KONG,"
"SINCE 1984 SLIGHTLY MORE ARRESTS HAVE BEEN MADE BY MEMBERS THE PUBLIC.
TO
OF
REVISE THE NPO
SCHEME WIT|| THE
HE ADDED THAT THERE WERE NO PLANS ALTHOUGH IT WAS INTENDED THAT IT SHOULD EXPAND TO KEEP PACE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY.
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