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RISE IN OVERALL CRIME IN SECOND QUARTER
OVERALL CRIMES REPORTED TO POLICE THIS YEAR SHOWED AN INCREASE OF B.2 THREE-MONTH PERIOD.
IN THE SECOND QUARTER OF PER CENT OVER THE PREVIOUS
THE SECOND
SECOND QUARTER TODAY RELEASING THE CRIME STATISTICS FOR
SAID (FRIDAY). MR WONG TSAN-KWONG. THE POLICE DEPUTY DIRECTOR. CRIME. A TOTAL OF 20.198 CRIMES WERE RECORDED.
4.271
CASES DURING
THE
QUARTER.
CRIME TOTALLED VIOLENT REPRESENTING 21.2 PER CENT OF ALL CRIMES REPORTED, AND A 12.6 PER CENT RISE OVER THE PRVIOUS QUARTER. MR WONG SAID.
AN
INDECENT
MR WONG SAID THE UPSURGE IN VIOLENT CRIME WAS MAINLY DUE TO INCREASE IN THE OFFENCES OF WOUNDING AND SERIOUS ASSAULT AND ASSAULT.
COMPARED WITH LAST QUARTER. INDECENT ASSAULT INCREASED BY 58.5 PER CENT WHILE WOUNDING AND SERIOUS WAS UP 24.6 PER CENT, MR WONG SAID.
ON FEMALE CASES ASSAULTS CASES
PER CENT ON ROBBERIES. MR WONG SAID WEAPONS WERE USED IN 46.5
OF ROBBERIES' VICTIMS OF THESE OFFENCES. RESULTING IN 24.8 PER CENT SUSTAINING INJURIES.
26 OF
OF ALL THE 1.450 ROBBERIES COMMITTED IN THE SECOND QUARTER. INVOLVED GOLDSMITH OR WATCH SHOPS. A TOTAL OF $21.8 MILLION WORTH
THE CORRESPONDING NUMBERS OF GOLD. JEWELERY AND WATCHES WERE STOLEN. SUCH ROBBERIES FOR THE PRECEDING QUARTER AND THE SAME QUARTER YEAR WERE NINE AND 14 RESPECTIVELY.
LAST
GENUINE FIREARMS 1989. OF WHICH SIX
THERE WERE 59 ROBBERIES INVOLVING THE USE OF OR PISTOL LIKE OBJECTS IN THE SECOND QUARTER OF CASES WERE CONFIRMED AS GENUINE FIREARMS.
THERE WERE 58 SUCH CASES IN THE PRECEDING
QUARTER AND 54
IN
THE SAME QUARTER OF LAST YEAR.
WONG POINTED OUT THAT IN 24 QUARTER. THE BURGLARS
WITH REGARD TO BURGLARIES, MR PERCENT OF ALL CASES OCCURRING IN THE SECOND DID NOT HAVE TO BREAK INTO THE PREMISES.
COMPARED WITH
PREMISES
BURGLARIES 23.5 PER CENT. AND
COMMERCIAL CENT. HOWEVER,
OFFICE
QUARTER. DOMESTIC LAST INCREASED BY 14.8 PER CENT. SHOP BURGLARIES BY FACTORY BURGLARIES BY 11.8 PER BURGLARIES FELL BY 17.6 PER CENT.
DAY IN WOUNDINGS AND SERIOUS ASSAULTS AVERAGED 20.8 CASES PER
CENT OVER THE PREVIOUS THE SECOND QUARTER. AN INCREASE OF 24.5 PER
PERIOD OF QUARTER AND ALSO 12 PER CENT HIGHER THAN THE CORRESPONDING LAST YEAR.
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