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Cases of police officers under ICAC investigation
Following are a question by the Hon Mrs Selina Chow and a written reply by the Secretary for Security, Mr Peter Lai, at the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):
Question:
Will the Government inform this Council:
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
of the number of cases involving serving police officers being investigated by the Independent Commission Against Corruption (the ICAC) in the past five years;
of the number of the above cases in which the investigation time lasted for
(1)
(ii)
(iii)
less than one year,
one to less than two years,
two to less than three years, and
(iv) three years or more;
whether the authority concerned has put in place any mechanism for determining if a police officer under investigation should be interdicted with pay; if not, whether, and if so how, such a mechanism will be set
up;
of the number of the cases referred to in (a) above in which the ICAC had not been able to complete investigations within a period of two years, resulting in the police officers under investigation being interdicted for a prolonged period; and
whether the ICAC has set a time limit for the ICAC to completion of an investigation and instituting prosecution proceedings where evidence is available or review whether investigations into uncompleted cases should continue; if not, why not?
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