THURSDAY. AUGUST 24, 1989
ACTING GOVERNOR PRAISES POLICE FOR WORK WITH VBP
"THE ORGANISATIONAL ABILITY, WILLINGNESS AND ENTHUSIASM OF THE POLICE OFFICERS INVOLVED IS TREMENDOUS AND THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE IS GRATEFUL FOR THEIR EFFORTS, THE ACTING GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID FORD, SAID VIETNAMESE BOAT TODAY (THURSDAY) AFTER PAYING HIS FIRST VISIT TO THE PEOPLE FORWARD RECEPTION CENTRE ON TAI A CHAU.
"IT IS AN EXTREMELY ARDUOUS JOB THEY HAVE BEEN ASKED TO TAKE ON
HE ADDED, AND THE PROBLEMS ARE VERY DIFFICULT TO DEAL WITH,'
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IT
IS
TASK WILL NOT LAST
"I HOPE THE
FOR TOO LONG BUT DIFFICULT AT THIS TIME TO SAY HOW LONG IT WILL CONTINUE.
"
HARBOUR DIVISIONS ΤΟ SIR DAVID WAS VISITING MARINE SOUTH AND
CENTRES SEE FOR HIMSELF HOW POLICE ARE COPING WITH THE MANNING OF VBP UNDER THEIR CONTROL.
WENT FIRST. HE
TO THE SOKO ISLANDS,
BOARD TRAVELLING ON NO.4 AND DAMEN LAUNCH 73 BEFORE FINALLY DIVISIONAL COMMAND LAUNCH TRANSFERRING TO ONE OF THE FASTER SHARK CAT CATAMARANS TO COMPLETE THE JOURNEY TO TAI A CHAU.
BY THE DURING THE 90-MINUTE TRIP HE WAS BRIEFED ON THE BRIDGE
MR JOHN MACDONALD AND THE DIVISIONAL REGIONAL COMMANDER, MARINE, COMMANDER, MARINE SOUTH DIVISION. MR JOHN SWAINE.
PUI-MAN, TOLD
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AT TAI A CHAU, PLATOON COMMANDER, MR LOUIS LEUNG SIR DAVID THAT THE ISLAND WAS CURRENTLY ACCOMMODATING 5,582 VBP'S, OF WHOM HAD ARRIVED EARLIER IN THE DAY.
THE ACTING GOVERNOR WAS THEN GIVEN A SHORT TOUR OF THE
A GREAT MANY IMPROVEMENTS HOLDING AREAS AND LEARNED THAT CARRIED OUT SINCE TAI A CHAU HAD FIRST BEEN INTRODUCED AS A CENTRE ON MAY 31.
VARIOUS HAD BEEN RECEPTION
IN OPERATION, WATER TANKS GIVING A 40-TONNE CAPACITY WERE NOW
AND FOUR RUMNEY HUTS WERE TOILET FACILITIES WERE ALMOST COMPLETED BEING ERECTED WHICH WOULD EVENTUALLY HOUSE 3,000 VBP'S WITHIN A FENCED AREA. HE WAS TOLD. A DAILY RUN OF COOKED RICE HAD BEEN INTRODUCED BY
AS FROM AUGUST THE MILITARY
PLANS
WERE
ALSO
BASIC
18. THERE
FOR
KITCHEN FACILITIES.
MEDICAL
FACILITIES.
THERE WERE
ALSO
A
REGULAR
AND
RUBBISH COLLECTION SERVICE. PIER EXTENSION. HELIPAD IMPROVEMENTS BAY DREDGING.
THE ACTING GOVERNOR WAS ALSO BRIEFED ON THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT FOR POLICE STAFF ON DUTY.
AFTER MEETING AND TALKING WITH SOME
IMPROVEMENTS MADE TO
OF THE POLICE PERSONNEL
SIR ACCOMMODATION,
DAVID DEPARTED HE VISITED
VBP THE
WHERE ISLAND
AND WALKING AMONG THE VBP TENTED FROM TAI A CHAU FOR STONECUTTERS POPULATION OF OVER 2.000 ABOARD FIVE HONG KONG & YAUMATI FERRIES.
BY ACCOMPANIED
THE DIVISIONAL HERE HE TOURED THE FACILITIES
FRED WONG WAI-HON, AND THE COMMANDER, MARINE HARBOUR DIVISION, MR PRINCIPAL TRAINING OFFICER, MR JOSEPH FUNG, OF THE CIVIL AID SERVICES.
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