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(c) During fire operations, apart from using aerial equipment like turntable ladders to fight the fire externally, the firemen crew will also conduct internal fire suppression and rescue operation inside a building through staircases. The fire service installations in a building, including, for example, fire hoses and sprinkler system, will also be used to extinguish or to limit the fire.
FSD conducts regular review on the provision of fire fighting and rescue facilities, including the adequacy of aerial equipment for fire-fighting in high-rise buildings.
Ways to curb illegal activities of TWP holders
Following is a question by the Hon Yum Sin-ling and a reply by the Secretary for Security, Mr Peter Lai, in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):
Question:
Will the Government inform this Council:
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
of the number of people entering Hong Kong from China on two-way exit permits and the number of such people who have overstayed, in the past twelve months;
whether the Government will review the penalties for overstayers to ascertain if these penalties have any deterrent effect; if not, why not;
in view of the fact that some of the two-way permit holders are involved in illegal activities (such as fraud, prostitution, illegal hawking and working a illegal foreign workers), what measures are in place to prevent such people from engaging in these illegal activities during their stay in the territory and to ensure that the offenders will not be able to come to the territory again; and
whether it has discussed with the Chinese Government the problem of two-way permit holders committing crimes in the territory; if so, whether a consensus has been reached with the Chinese authorities for combating such activities?