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The Police Force senior management takes a serious viev ot abuse of authority and emphasises the importance of professionalism fom time to time in their orders. This is supplemented by the enhancement of quality of Police officers through careful recruitment and traning. The percentage of Police Constable recruits who are academicily qualified for Probationary Inspectors rose from 18.4% in 1988/89 to 33.6% in 1996/97.
In addition, the Police have well established guidelines ancsafeguards to ensure that ID Card checks are carried out properly -
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incorporating ID Card checks in the curriculum of the Police Training School, emphasising that only relevant questions should be asked;
a Police officer conducting the ID Card check ha to explain to the person why he has been stopped if asked;
a Police officer is required to record details of the DD Card check in his Police notebook;
apart from checking the validity of the ID Card, the other information available to a Police officer conducting ID Cad check through the Police's computer system is restricted tonly whether there is an outstanding arrest warrant for the erson stopped, the person stopped is likely to be violent, or the person stopped has been reported as missing;
the Police's computer system also captures ay information requested by the Police officer when conducng the ID Card check which provides a trail for investiption whenever a complaint against a Police officer is lodged;
in accordance with the Personal Data (rivacy) Ordinance, a Police officer has to explain to the perso, checked that he has the right to obtain a copy of the personal jformation recorded from the relevant Police station; and