SATURDAY. AUGUST 5. 1989
LI KWAN-HA APPOINTED COMMISSIONER OF POLICE
FOR FOREIGN
AND
AFFAIRS
THAT THE SECRETARY HAS APPROVED THE OF POLICE DECEMBER 1.
THE GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED TODAY (SATURDAY) OF STATE
COMMONWEALTH OF MR APPOINTMENT
LI KWAN-HA, DEPUTY COMMISSIONER (OPERATIONS). AS COMMISSIONER OF POLICE WITH EFFECT FROM
1989.
PROBATIONARY OPM IN
A MR LI. AGED 52, JOINED THE HONG KONG POLICE AS SUB-INSPECTOR IN 1957. HE WAS AWARDED THE CPM IN 1980 AND THE
1984.
HE IS HE WAS APPOINTED DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF POLICE IN 1985.
HAS ACTED AS THE SENIOR DEPUTY COMMISSIONER IN THE FORCE AND
OF OCCASIONS IN THE LAST FOUR COMMISSIONER OF POLICE ON A NUMBER
YEARS.
OFFICER TO BECOME
THE
MR LI WILL BE THE FIRST LOCAL CHINESE COMMISSIONER OF THE ROYAL HONG KONG POLICE FORCE.
MR LI 'BEST MAN FOR THE JOB'
IT IS QUITE INCIDENTAL THAT THE NEXT
CHINESE
A
OFFICER.
COMMISSIONER OF POLICE
KWAN-HA
WAS
THE REASON WHY MR LI IS TO BE APPOINTED IS THAT HE IS THE BEST MAN FOR THE JOB.
TO SAY
THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, MR RAYMON ANNING. HAD THIS THIS AFTERNOON (SATURDAY) WHEN ASKED BY THE MEDIA FOR HIS REACTIONS TO TODAY'S EARLIER ANNOUNCEMENT THAT HIS SENIOR DEPUTY HAD BEEN APPOINTED AS HIS SUCCESSOR.
HE IS A
TOLD REPORTERS
"HE IS GOING TO BE AN ABSOLUTELY FINE COMMISSIONER. FINE OFFICER, EXTREMELY COMPETENT. HAS THE RESPECT AND CONFIDENCE OF THE FORCE AND HE WILL DO A TREMENDOUS JOB." MR ANNING AT TODAY'S AUXILIARY PASSING OUT PARADE.
ASKED WHY
IT HAD
SO TAKEN
FOR LONG
THE
ANNOUNCEMENT
TO
SENIOR
GOVERNMENT
BE MADE. MR ANNING SAID THAT LOOKING AT THE THINGS THAT WERE HAPPENING
GOVERNOR AND OTHER IN HONG KONG AT PRESENT, THE OFFICIALS HAD MANY MATTERS TO ATTEND TO.
"THERE WAS NO GREAT RUSH. 50
SO NOW IT'S ANNOUNCED," HE SAID.
LEARN IN RESPONSE TO A QUERY AS TO WHETHER HE WAS SURPRISED TO
THE YEARS BEFORE
1997 OF THE APPOINTMENT OF A LOCAL OFFICER EIGHT
TERMS OF THE JOINT HANDOVER, THE COMMISSIONER AGAIN POINTED TO THE DECLARATION.
"I HAVE