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SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1988
ADDED TO THE EXPANSION OF THE REGION ITSELF IS THE COMING TRANSFER OF ARMY DUTIES AT THE BORDER TO THE ROYAL HONG KONG POLICE FORCE AND THE BUILDING OF A NEW AND EXPANDED POLICE TACTICAL UNIT DEPOT AT FANLING.
MAJOR PLANS IN THE PIPELINE ALSO INCLUDE A NEW NTREGIONAL HEADQUARTERS AT TAI PO AND THE FUTURE DIVISION OF THE REGION INTO SEPARATE NORTH AND SOUTH POLICE REGIONS.
THE NEW $18 MILLION SIU LEK YUEN POLICE STATION, OPENED ON JULY 1 BY THE DIRECTOR OF MANAGEMENT AND INSPECTION SERVICES, MR ROBERT BROWN, IS THE THIRD DIVISIONAL POLICE STATION IN SHA TIN DISTRICT.
1991.
A FOURTH IS SCHEDULED TO GO INTO OPERATION AT MA ON SHAN IN
BORDER DIVISION STAFF, UNDER DIVSIONAL COMMANDER MR FRANCIS CHAN, RECENTLY MOVED INTO THEIR NEW HEADQUARTERS AT SHA LING, WHICH WILL BE OFFICIALLY OPENED SOON BY THE NEW TERRITORIES REGIONAL COMMANDER, MR RICHARD SMALLSHAW.
SITUATED ON A HILLSIDE OVERLOOKING MAN KAM TO, THE NEW BORDER HEADQUARTERS REPLACES THE FORMER POLICE-POLMIL FACILITIES AT LO WU. WITH THE WITHDRAWAL OF ARMY PERSONNEL, THE NEW BORDER STATION IS MANNED EXCLUSIVELY BY POLICE.
THERE IS ALSO
PROGRESS ON TSING YI ISLAND, WITH THE NEW DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS CURRENTLY BECOMING OPERATIONAL AND AN OFFICIAL OPENING SCHEDULED POSSIBLY FOR SEPTEMBER THIS YEAR.
THE NEW REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION AT TAI
PO, ADJACENT TO THE RECENTLY OPENED TAI PO DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS AND DIVSIONAL POLICE STATION.
THE HEADQUARTERS WILL CONSIST OF TWO TOWER BLOCKS AND WORK ON THE SUPERSTRUCTURE HAS REACHED THE SEVENTH FLOOR WITH COMPLETION EXPECTED TO BE ON SCHEDULE IN MID-1989.
SITE FORMATION WORK IS UNDER WAY ON THE TSUEN WAN DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS AND THE TSUEN WAN WEST DIVISIONAL POLICE STATION,
WORK CONTINUES ON THE TAI HING DIVISIONAL POLICE STATION IN TUEN MUN DISTRICT, WHILE PILING IS EXPECTED TO START THIS YEAR ON THE MA ON SHAN DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS AND DIVISIONAL POLICE STATION, SHA TIN.
AT THE PLANNING STAGE ARE THE LAI KING DIVISIONAL POLICE STATION, THE TSUEN WAN CENTRAL POLICE STATION, THE SHAM TSING DIVISIONAL POLICE STATION AND THE SAM SHING DIVISIONAL POLICE STATION.
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