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FRIDAY. OCTOBER 20, 1989
HK'S CRIME SITUATION COMPARES FAVOURABLY WITH OTHER CITIES
LEVEL
THE CRIME SITUATION IN HONG KONG HAS BEEN CONTAINED AT A
IN THE WORLD, THE WHICH COMPARES FAVOURABLY WITH MANY OTHER CITIES DEPUTY TO THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID FORD, SAID TODAY (FRIDAY).
AS SPEAKING AT THE 1989 FIGHT CRIME RECEPTION IN HIS CAPACITY
SIR DAVID SAID HONG COMMITTEE (FCC), CHAIRMAN OF THE FIGHT CRIME
OF REPORTED CRIME 80.000 CASES OF ANNUAL AVERAGE KONG OVER THE PAST 10 YEARS.
HAD
AN
NOTING THAT CRIME WAS AN EVERY AFFLUENT SOCIETY, HE SAID HONG KONG ITS DETERMINED EFFORTS AGAINST CRIME.
UNSAVOURY AND ENDURING
OF FEATURE STOOD OUT CREDITABLY FOR
IMPARTIAL
SYSTEM,
"WE HAVE ACHIEVED THIS THROUGH SOUND LEGISLATION, AN
PROFESSIONAL LEGAL
THE AND INDEPENDENT JUDICIARY, A HIGHLY
STRONG COMMUNITY SUPPORT HARD WORK OF AN EFFICIENT POLICE FORCE AND IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CRIME," HE SAID.
YEAR, THE
SIR DAVID SAID A ON THE WORK OF THE FCC DURING
PUNISHMENT, ORGANISED WIDE RANGE OF SUBJECTS, INCLUDING CORPORAL
OF OFFENDERS, TRIAD RENUNCIATION CRIME LEGISLATION, REHABILITATION SCHEME AND THE YOUNG OFFENDERS ASSESSMENT PANEL PILOT SCHEME HAD CONSIDERED.
IN
PARTICULAR,
SIR
DAVID
SAID
BEEN
1988
SAW
ON JUVENILE CRIME A SIGNIFICANT DECREASE OF SHOP THEFT CASES COMMITTED BY JUVENILES.
"IT IS MOST ENCOURAGING TO NOTE THAT THIS CONTINUED IN 1989." HE SAID.
DOWNWARD TREND HAS
1,319
JUVENILES
CENT
IN THE NINE MONTHS UP TO SEPTEMBER THIS YEAR, WERE ARRESTED FOR SHOP THEFT, REPRESENTING A DECREASE OF 31 PER COMPARED WITH THE 1.920 ARRESTED IN THE SAME PERIOD OF 1988.
HOWEVER. SIR DAVID SAID THE DEVELOPMENT OF JUVENILE OTHER ASPECTS WAS NOT 50 HEARTENING,
CRIMES IN
"A GREATER NUMBER OF JUVENILES WERE ARRESTED VIOLENT CRIMES IN 1989 THAN IN 1988.
FOR SERIOUS AND
"IN THE FIRST THREE QUARTERS
THERE 1989, AND 361 ROBBERY
WOUNDING FOR JUVENILES ARRESTED FOR ASSAULT WHICH REPRESENTED AN INCREASE OF 11 PER CENT AND 3.6 PER RESPECTIVELY OVER 1988." SIR DAVID SAID.
OF
SOME WERE
AND
600 SERIOUS
CENT
ON YOUNG OFFENDERS WILL CONTINUE INSTITUTES, YOUTH AGENCIES AND OTHER PROBLEM,
STANDING COMMITTEE "IN THE FACE OF THIS RISING TREND. THE FCC
ΤΟ WORK CLOSELY WITH EDUCATIONAL TACKLE THE RELATED BODIES TO
/"WE LOOK