FRIDAY, FEBRUARY
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CIVIL SERVANTS FACE MORE CHALLENGES
TO BE A CIVIL SERVANT AT THIS TIME IS MORE CHALLENGING THAN EVER, IN VIEW OF THE CHANGES THAT ARF ALL AROUND, AS WELL OF COURSE WITH THE TRANSITION IN THE RUN UP TO 1997.
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THE SECRETARY FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE MR BARRIE WIGGHAM, THIS TODAY (FRIDAY) WHEN HE REVIEWED A PASSING-OUT PARADE OF FIRE SERVICES RECRUITS AT THE FIRE SERVICES TRAINING SCHOOL.
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"BUT NO MATTER WHAT CHANGES THAT FUTURE NIGHT HOLD, COMMUNITY'S EXPECTATION THAT IT CAN RELY ON THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF EFFICIENT SERVICE IN ORDER TO SAVE LIFE AND PROPERTY IN THE EVENT FIRE OR OTHER DISASTER WILL NEVER CHANGE, HE SAID.
MR WIGGHAM NOTED THAT THE FIRE SERVICES DEPARTMENT WAS ONE THE FIRST GROUP OF DEPARTMENTS TO ANNOUNG F ITS PERFORMANCE PLEDGES, SUPPORT OF GOVERNMENT'S "SERVING THE COMMENETY SCHEME.
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HE PAID TRIBUTE TO THE DEPARTMENT, NOT ONLY BECAUSE OF ITS SPEEDY RESPONSE TO THE SCHEME, BUT ALSO BECAUSE THE STANDARD) OF SERVICES IT PLEDGED WOULD BE REASSURING TO MENBERS OF THE PUBLIC.
**PEOPLE WHO NEED THE SERVICES ARE INVARIARLY TROSE SUFFERING FROM MISFORTUNE, AS TRFIR LIVES AND PROPERTY ARE IMPERILLED BY FIRE OR OTHER DISASTERS," HE SAID.
MR WIGGHAM RECALLED THAT WHEN HE CAME TO HONG KONG IN 1961, THE FIRE BRIGADE (NOW THE FIRE SERVICES DEPARTMENTY ONLY HAD 72 FIRE AND AMBULANCE VEHICLES HOUSED IN 19 FIRE STATIONS WITH A STAFF OF OVER 1,000.
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TODAY, HE SAID, THE DEPARTMENT IS EQUIPPED WITH 546 MODERN AND SOPHISTICATED FIRE APPLIANCES AND AMBULANCES, ACCOMMODATED IN 63 FIRE STATIONS AND 29 AMBULANCE DEPOTS AND, MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL, MANNED BY OVER 7,000 "DEVOTED AND EXTREMELY SKILFUL FIFF SERVICES PERSONNEL.
MR WIGGHAM SAID TODAY'S CEREMONY WAS SPECIALLY MEANINGFUL то HIM AS IT WAS THE LAST TIME HE WOULD BE ABLE TO ATTEND A HONG KONG FIRE SERVICES FUNCTION AS THE SECRETARY FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE, BEFORE HIS POSTING TO WASHINGTON,
TAKING PART IN TODAY'S PARADE WERE 100 NEW RECRUITS WHO HAD JUST COMPLETED A 26-WEEK INITIAL TRAINING IN THE SCHOOL.
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