FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1994
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QUESTION: WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE CALL FOR AN INDEPENDENT CAPO?
GOVERNOR: I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO RECOGNISE WHAT WE DO ALREADY.
WE HAVE A CAPO WHICH IS MONITORED BY THE POLICE COMPLAINTS COMMITTEE A AND WE ARE INTENDING TO PLACE THAT POLICE COMPLAINTS COMMITTEE ON STATUTORY BASIS. WE'LL BE BRINGING FORWARD THE LEGISLATION NEXT YEAR.
BE WE ARE ALSO PROPOSING THAT THE POLICE COMPLAINTS COMMITTEE SHOULD
QUESTION ABLE, WHERE IT IS NECESSARY OR RELEVANT, TO MEET AND
FURTHER, WITNESSES IN CASES. AND CAPO ITSELF IS DETERMINED TO IMPROVE
INTERVIEWS THE WAY IT WORKS, FOR EXAMPLE, WITH PROPER SURVEILLANCE OF
A GREAT AND SO ON RECORDINGS. SO, I THINK THAT WE ARE ALREADY DOING DEAL AND I THINK THE PUBLIC SHOULD PROPERLY HAVE CONFIDENCE IN THE WAY MADE ABOUT THAT THE POLICE CONDUCTS INVESTIGATIONS INTO ALLEGATIONS
ALSO HAVE EVERYBODY SHOULD OPERATIONS THEIR
AND I THINK THAT
AM OUT CONFIDENCE IN THE WORK OF THE POLICE COMPLAINTS COMMITTEE. I AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON, VISITING SOME FACILITIES FOR THE ELDERLY. SO, IF THANK ANY OF YOU WANTS TO CROSS THE HARBOUR, I'LL BE SEEING YOU THEN. YOU VERY MUCH.
GOVERNOR VISITS CENTRAL POLICE STATION
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CHRISTOPHER PATTEN, VISITED THE (FRIDAY) FOR A FIRST-HAND LOOK AT. HOW
THE GOVERNOR, THE RT. HON.
CENTRAL POLICE STATION TODAY A POLICE STATION OPERATES.
KONG MR
GREETED BY THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, MR EDDIE HUI KI-ON, THE GOVERNOR WAS FIRST BRIEFED BY THE REGIONAL COMMANDER OF HONG
THE 1SLAND, MR TONY MULLINS AND
DISTRICT COMMANDER, JOHN HUI CHIU-YIN, ON POLICING OF THE DISTRICT.
CENTRAL,
WAS BRIEFED THE
WHILE TOURING THE STATION BUILDINGS, THE GOVERNOR BY ACTING SENIOR SUPERINTENDENT, MR KEITH RATCLIFFE, ON HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL ASPECTS OF THE COMPLEX.
HE WAS TOLD THAT THE SITE HAD BEEN OCCUPIED SOLELY BY POLICE SINCE SHORTLY AFTER THE FOUNDING OF HONG KONG.
THE
A SUBSTANTIAL POLICE STATION HAD BEEN BUILT THERE BY 1843 AND IT WAS THE FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNTIL THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION IN 1941.
THE SITE HAD BEEN REDEVELOPED BETWEEN 1861 AND 1864 WITH THE ERECTION OF THE EXITING BLOCKS A AND B WHICH WERE BUILT WITH STONE QUARRIED FROM STONECUTTERS ISLAND.
MR PATTEN WAS TOLD THAT THE HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE OF THE COMPLEX HAD BEEN RECOGNISED BY THE ANTIQUITIES AND MONUMENTS OFFICE WHICH HAD CLASSIFIED ALL THE BUILDINGS AS OF OUTSTANDING MERIT AND WOULD BE PRESERVED AT ALL COSTS.
THE GOVERNOR THEN MET OFFICERS OF THE SECTION, THE DISTRICT SPECIAL DUTIES SQUAD AND TEAM TO GET A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THEIR WORK.
DISTRICT INTELLIGENCE THE DISTRICT TRAFFIC
/MRS PATTEN