TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1994
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VIETNAMESE TRANSFERRED FOR ORDERLY REPATRIATION
THE FOLLOWING ARE STATISTICS REGARDING THE TWO-DAY EXERCISE INVOLVING THE TRANSFER OF VIETNAMESE MIGRANTS FROM HIGH ISLAND DETENTION CENTRE TO VICTORIA PRISON FOR THE ORDERLY REPATRIATION PROGRAMME FLIGHT ON SEPTEMBER 22 AND 23:
DEPLOYMENT
THE TOTAL NUMBER OF CORRECTIONAL
SERVICES DEPARTMENT
(CSD)/POLICE OFFICERS INVOLVED IN THE OPERATION WAS ABOUT 700.
THEY INCLUDED 171 CSD OFFICERS, 401 POLICE OFFICERS AND ABOUT 130 HIGH ISLAND DETENTION CENTRE STAFF.
ABOUT 30 CSD OFFICERS WERE INVOLVED IN THE REMOVAL VIETNAMESE MIGRANTS ON THE ROOFTOP.
OF THE 11
INJURIES
A TOTAL OF 155 VIETNAMESE MIGRANTS HAD SOUGHT MEDICAL TREATMENT. OF THEM, 59 WERE FOUND TO HAVE NO INJURIES. 96 WERE TREATED FOR MINOR INJURIES. ALL OF THEM WERE TREATED
AT HIGH ISLAND DETENTION CENTRE WITH THE EXCEPTION OF SEVEN (SIX MEN, ONE WOMAN ) WHO WERE SENT TO HOSPITAL. SIX WERE TREATED AND DISCHARGED WHILE A MAN WAS ADMITTED.
IN ADDITION, 39 CSD OFFICERS RECEIVED MINOR INJURIES.
THE ABOVE DOES NOT INCLUDE THAT PART OF THE OPERATION INVOLVING THE 11 VIETNAMESE MIGRANTS ON THE ROOFTOP.
TWO VIETNAMESE MEN WERE INJURED WHEN THEY SLASHED THEIR WRISTS AND THEY WERE TAKEN TO HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT.
IN ADDITION, SEVEN CSD OFFICERS WERE SLASHED BY THEM.
EIGHT OTHER
INJURIES.
COMPLAINTS
VIETNAMESE MIGRANTS ON THE ROOF
SUSTAINED MINOR
THERE WERE A TOTAL
OF
MIGRANTS DURING THE OPERATION
— —
SEVEN COMPLAINTS MADE BY VIETNAMESE
SIX FOR ALLEGED ASSAULTS AND ONE THE LOSS OF A NECKLACE. THESE HAD BEEN OR ARE BEING REFERRED ΤΟ POLICE.
FOR
THE
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