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TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1991
"WHAT IS MORE PLEASING HOWEVER IS THAT MANY APPLICANTS NOW HAVE A MUCH MORE POSITIVE IMAGE OF THE FORCE AS A CHALLENGING WORTHWHILE CAREER."
AND
MR LEUNG SAID THIS IMAGE HAD BREN ENHANCED BY RECENT SUCCESSFUL OPERATIONS AGAINST ORGANISED CRIME AND SMUGGLING AND BY INCREASED CO-OPERATION AND LIAISON WITH THE CHINESE AUTHORITIES,
IN PARTICULAR THE VISIT
PEKING BY COMMISSIONER OF POLICE MR LI KWAN-HA.
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RELATIONS BRANCH HAD STEPPED UP
MEANWHILE POLICE PUBLIC PUBLICITY, ESPECIALLY THROUGH THE MASS MEDIA, IN AN EFFORT TO ENCOURAGE MORE YOUNG PEOPLE TO CONSIDER THE POLICE AS A CAREER.
RECRUITING CENTRE STAFF AT QUEENSWAY, TSIM SHA TSUI, MONG
кок, WONG TAI SIN AND SHA TIN HAD BEEN MAKING A SPECIAL EFFORT ΤΟ PROMOTE THE POSITIVE IMAGE OF THE FORCE BY MAKING THEMSELVES APPROACHABLE AND
CONCERNED.
APPLICANTS
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"THEY ARE ACTIVELY ASSISTING
WITH THEIR APPLICATIONS AND OTHER RECRUITMENT GROUP STAFF ARE ENSURING THAT APPLICATIONS ARE DEALT WITH AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE, MR LEUNG SAID.
"AS A RESULT SOME POTENTIAL RECRUITS ARE NOW BEING INTERVIEWED ONLY POUR DAYS AFTER ATTENDING A RECRUITING CENTRE.
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LAST YRAR LETTERS WERK SENT TO ALL FORM FIVE STUDENTS ENCOURAGING THEM TO CONSIDER THE POLICE AS A CAREER. THIS WAS ALSO MEANS, SAID MR LEUNG, OF SECURING THE ATTENTION OF AN IMPORTANT TARGET GROUP AND IT HAD CONTINUED INTO THE CURRENT YEAR.
OTHER MEASURES INCLUDED THE HOLDING OF CAREER EXHIBITIONS AT WHICH APPLICATIONS COULD BE MADE ON THE SPOT AND LIAISON VISITS WITH SCHOOL CAREERS MASTERS.
"THE RESULT OF THE RECENT UPSURGE IN APPLICATIONS HAS BEEN THAT IN THE FIRST TWO MONTHS OF THE CURRENT FINANCIAL YEAR 181 CONSTABLES WERE TAKEN ON STRENGTH, AN INCREASE OF ALMOST 50 PER CENT OVER THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR, MR LEUNG SAID. "THERE IS HOWEVER STILL A SHORTFALL.
"NOT ONLY THIS BT THE QUALITY HAS ALSO SHOWN A MARKED IMPROVEMENT. AMONG THE NEW RECRUITS NO LESS THAN 38 PER CENT HAVE OR MORE SUBJK TS PASSED IN TIK HONG KONG CERTIFICATE OF EDUCATION EXAMINATION, COMPARED WITH ONLY 23 PER CENT IN 1989-90."
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MR LEUNG ADDED THAT THE NUMBERS
OFFICERS RECRUITED AT INSPECTORATE LFVRL HAD NRVER BEEN A PROBLEM BUT IN TERMS OF CURRENT FIGURES TUR TREND
INSPECTORATE RECRUITMENT FOLLOWED THE SAME
PATTERN AS FOR JUNTOR POLICE OFFICERS.
** 'SUPPLY ING THE RIGHT NUMBER OF INSPECTORS FLUCTUATES AND IS INDICATED BY VACANCIES AVAILABLE NOT BY RECRUITING FIGURFS. BUT THERE HAS BEEN AN INCREASE IN *THE NUMBER OF INSPECTORATE OFFICERS APPLYING LOCALLY,” SAID MR LEUNG.
/THERE WERE