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Service suspension period of police vehicles acceptable
Following is a question by the Hon Choy Kan-pui and a reply by the Secretary for Security, Mr Peter Lai, in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):
Question:
Reply:
Will the Government inform this Council of:
(a)
(b)
(c)
Mr President,
(a)
the number of traffic accidents involving police vehicles, and the type of police vehicles involved in such accidents, in each of the past three
years;
the main causes of traffic accidents involving police vehicles and the total number of such accidents in the past three years arising from careless or reckless driving on the part of the drivers of police vehicles; and
the average period of suspension from service of police vehicles involved in traffic accidents in the past three years; whether such suspension had any effect on normal police work and, if so, what these effects were?
The number of traffic accidents involving police vehicles were 628 in 1994, 610 in 1995 and 527 in 1996. Of the 628 cases in 1994, 242 involved motorcycles and 386 involved four-wheeled vehicles. Of the 610 cases in 1995, 182 involved motorcycles and 428 involved four- wheeled vehicles. Of the 527 cases in 1996, 218 involved motorcycles and 309 involved four-wheeled vehicles.
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