POLICE PASSING OUT PARADE
SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1991
THE LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES MUST PLAY THEIR FULL PART IN HELPING TO PRESERVE THE STABILITY OF HONG KONG UPON WHICH THE PROSPERITY OF THIS PLACE WILL CONTINUE TO DEPEND.
THIS WAS STATED BY A MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL, MR JOHN SWAINE, WHEN HE ADDRESSED A POLICE PASSING OUT PARADE AT THE POLICE TRAINING SCHOOL IN WONG CHUK HANG TODAY (SATURDAY).
POINTING OUT THAT THEY WOULD BE IN THE FOREFRONT OF THESE ACTIVITIES, MR SWAINE URGED THE GRADUATES TO REMEMBER THAT THEY WERE THE STARTING POINT OF CONTACT BETWEEN THE COMMUNITY AND THE AGENCIES OF LAW AND ORDER WHEN THEY WALKED A BEAT OR MANNED A POLICE POST.
"THE COMMUNITY WILL JUDGE THE FORCE BY YOUR RESPONSES.
EFFECTIVENESS
OF THE POLICE
HE SAID.
"THEREFORE BE FIRM BUT FAIR IN YOUR DEALINGS WITH THE PUBLIC,
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MR SWAINE TOLD THE GRADUATES THAT THE UNDERPINNING OF THEIR JOB WAS THE MAINTENANCE OF LAW AND ORDER IN HONG KONG, AND THAT ROLE WOULD BECOME INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT AS HONG KONG EVOLVED IN THE DAYS. AHEAD.
"THE TRAINING YOU HAVE UNDERGONE WILL HAVE HELPED YOU TO DEVELOP YOUR OWN POTENTIAL AND TO GROW IN STATURE, AS WELL AS EQUIP YOU FOR THE JOB ITSELF, WHICH IS BOTH DEMANDING AND VARIED, HE ADDED.
ON PARADE TODAY WERE 32 POLICE INSPECTORS AND 115 WHO HAVE JUST COMPLETED THEIR BASIC TRAINING.
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CONSTABLES
1,155 TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS REPORTED IN APRIL
A TOTAL OF 1,445 CASUALTIES WERE REPORTED IN 1,155 TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS WHICH OCCURRED THROUGHOUT THE TERRITORY LAST MONTH.
A POLICE SPOKESMAN SAID TODAY (SATURDAY) THAT 296 OF THESE ACCIDENTS OCCURRED ON HONG KONG ISLAND, 613 IN KOWLOON AND 246 IN THE NEW TERRITORIES.
THE PROVISIONAL FIGURES FOR APRIL SHOWED THAT 22 PEOPLE WERE KILLED, 284 PEOPLE WERE SERIOUSLY INJURED AND 1,139 SLIGHTLY INJURED
IN THESE ACCIDENTS.
A DECREASE
THE NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS AND CASUALTIES REPRESENTED OF 13 PER CENT AND 17.5 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY OVER THE SAME PERIOD IN 1990.
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