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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29,
1988
IN HIS SPEECH, THE CHIEF SECRETARY, SIR DAVID FORD, WHO IS ALSO CHAIRMAN OF THE FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEE,
ASSURED
THAT THE
GOVERNMENT
CONTINUED TO GIVE THE FIGHT AGAINST CRIME THE HIGHEST PRIORITY,
GOVERNMENT
WAS DETERMINED COULD BE
TO LOOK PROUD OF THE WHEN COMPARED
SIR DAVID SAID WHILE THE AFTER THE SECURITY OF ITS PEOPLE, HONG KONG FACT THAT IT WAS DOING WELL IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CRIME TO OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD.
SERIOUS OFFENCES
IN
HIGHER
HONG THAN
"THE AVERAGE ANNUAL CRIME RATE FOR
IS SLIGHTLY KONG IS 507 PER 100,000 POPULATION. THIS
FAVOURABLY BUT COMPARES VERY TOKYO'S 384 PER 100,000 POPULATION,
100,000 OF PEOPLE, WITH LONDON'S FIGURE OF 2,613 SERIOUS CRIMES PER
100,000 WASHINGTON'S 3,662, AND A UNITED STATES' AVERAGE OF 1,908 PER POPULATION.
IT
FORCE,
PLAY
AN
"FOR A CITY OF OUR SIZE AND DENSITY, THIS IS A GOOD RECORD. REFLECTS WELL ON THE PROFESSIONALISM AND QUALITY OF OUR POLICE
PREPARED TO WHICH IS INCREASINGLY AND ON OUR COMMUNITY, ACTIVE PART IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CRIME,
HE SAID.
NOT
AS
FIGHT
COMPLACENT BE HOWEVER, SIR DAVID SAID HONG KONG MUST CRIME REMAINED A SUBJECT OF SERIOUS CONCERN AND THAT EFFORTS TO AGAINST CRIME MUST BE MAINTAINED.
JUVENILE OF THE AREAS WHERE MORE NEEDED TO BE DONE, TRIADS WERE OF MAJOR PUBLIC CONCERN, SIR DAVID SAID.
AND
CRIME AND
YEAR, THERE
INVOLVED,
WERE 138
DURING THE PERIOD JANUARY TO SEPTEMBER THIS
THOSE AMONGST 1,478 OFFENCES RELATING TO TRIADS WERE YOUNG PEOPLE BETWEEN THE AGES OF SEVEN AND 15.
TO WARN THE TRIAD
SIR DAVID SAID EFFORTS WOULD CONTINUE TO BE MADE COMMUNITY, PARTICULARLY YOUNG PEOPLE, TO AVOID INVOLVEMENT WITH AND REPORT ANY APPROACH MADE, OR ATTEMPT AT RECRUITMENT, BY TRIADS.
OVER
AS FOR PROVIDING AN OPPORTUNITY FOR TRIAD MEMBERS TO TURN
WOULD SCHEME RENUNCIATION TRIAD A NEW LEAF, SIR DAVID SAID THE INTRODUCED BY THE END OF THIS YEAR.
BE
THE THIRD TIME,
ON
THE WHOLE-DAY CONFERENCE, WHICH WAS HELD FOR WAS CHAIRED BY FCC MEMBER DR HO KAM-FAI. IN ADDITION TO DISCUSSION
BY THE CHIEF JUSTICE, FIGHT CRIME MATTERS, IT COMPRISED ALSO TALKS
SIR TI LIANG YANG, AND THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF POLICE (OPERATIONS), MR LI KWAN-HA.
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