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Care or protection proceedings are not criminal proceedings, parents often do not feel the need to seek legal representation for their children. In many cases, it is the parents who request that the child be taken into care because the child is out of their control. In the past three years from 1993-94 to 1995-96, out of a total of 5,613 care or protection cases brought before the Juvenile Court, 19 involved legal representation for the child or juvenile concerned. The great majority of care or protection cases were restored to home care.
In 1995-96, of the 1,855 cases where there was no legal representation about 17% or 322 cases involved the child or juvenile in question being placed in institutional care after appearing before the Juvenile Court. We do not have readily available statistics on the number of such cases in 1993-94 and 1994-95.
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Measures to prevent illegal immigrants enter to commit crime
Following is a question by the Hon Zachary Wong Wai-yin and a reply by the Secretary for Security, Mr Peter Lai, in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):
Question:
Regarding the incident which occurred in the early hours on 13 May this year. in which the police intercepted a group of people in possession of a large quantity of weapons and believed to have entered the territory illegally, will the Government inform this Council:
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(b)
(c)
of the blackspots in the territory used by illegal immigrants landing, and the measures adopted by the police to intercept illegal immigrants landing from such blackspots;
whether vessels registered in China entering Hong Kong waters are required to obtain the prior approval of the relevant departments in the territory; and
of the number of stop-and-search operations in Hong Kong waters conducted by the police on Chinese vessels entering the territory in the past three years, and the number of such vessels found to be involved in illegal activities such as carrying illegal immigrants and smuggling?
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