WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1989
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STUDY ON IMPROVING LIFT CAR SECURITY
THE HOUSING
HAS DEPARTMENT
BUREAU,
DISCUSSIONS
WITH THE CONTRACTORS ' WAY OF IMPROVING
INITIATED
THE ENGINEERING POLICE
PREVENTION CRIME ASSOCIATION AND LIFT CONTRACTORS TO STUDY THE BEST THE SECURITY IN LIFT CARS IN PUBLIC HOUSING ESTATES.
THE FROM THE
CHENG IN HON MICHAEL REPLYING TO A QUESTION
THE SECRETARY FOR DISTRICT LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY),
BEST ADMINISTRATION, THE HON DONALD LIAO, SAID THE STUDY INCLUDED HOW
LESS SUSCEPTIBLE TO MAKE TRAP DOORS AND THE ALARM SYSTEM IN THE LIFT TO INTERFERENCE.
IN LIFT
A FIVE-MEMBER GANG "ON JANUARY 31, 1989, THE POLICE ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH 42 ROBBERIES AND TWO RAPE CASES COMMITTED CARS OVER THE LAST 13 MONTHS.
BELIEVED TO THE TRAP DOOR
"ONE OF THE MEMBERS, A FORMER LIFT TECHNICIAN, IS BE THE PERSON WITH THE SPECIAL SKILL REQUIRED TO OPEN
MR LIAO SAID. WITHOUT ACTIVATING THE ALARM,
INTRODUCTION
WITH THE ARREST OF THE GANG AND THE ARISING FROM THE STUDY, IT WAS HOPED THAT SECURITY PUBLIC ROUSING ESTATES WOULD BE IMPROVED, HE ADDED.
1N LIFT
OF MEASURES CARS
IN
ARRESTS MADE IN MAJORITY OF CASES
*
HON
THE POLICE MADE AN ARREST IN THE MAJORITY OF CASES OF
FOR SECURITY, THE INTIMIDATION, THE ACTING SECRETARY ASPREY, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
REPORTED ALISTAIR
AND WHERE THE PERSON WILL BE PROTECTION RISK,
TO A QUESTION FROM
MADE, BE "WHERE AN ARREST CANNOT
BE
AT REPORTING THE INCIDENT APPEARS TO OFFERED BY THE POLICE," MR ASPREY SAID IN REPLY THE HON HUI YIN-FAT.
HE SAID 502 CASES OF CRIMINAL INTIMIDATION LAST YEAR, 527 IN 1987 AND 500 IN 1986.
AVAILA
HAD BEEN REPORTED
SUBSEQUENT
INTIMIDATION TO THE
NO DETAILS WERE AVAILABLE OF THE NUMBER OF CASES OF ASSAULTS ON PERSONS WHO HAD PREVIOUSLY REPORTED POLICE.
"THE NUMBER OF SUCH CASES, HOWEVER,
IS BELIEVED TO BE VERY
SMALL,
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HE SAID.
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/MR HUI
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