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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1980.

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IN THE NEW TERRITORIES, THE BUS WILL STOP AT TSUEN WAN TOWN HALL COMPOUND (10 AM TO 10.20 AM), KWAI FONG ESTATE PLAYGROUND (10.50 AM TO 11.05 AM) MING OI STREET PLAYGROUND IN TUEN MUN (11.55 AM TO 12.10 PM), YUEN LONG ESTATE BLOCK 2 (12.55 PM TO 1.10 PM), PO HEUNG STREET NEAR THE TAI PO RURAL COMMITTEE (3 PM TO 3.15 PM), AND THE SHA TIN NEW TOWN PUBLIC HOUSING ESTATES.

NOTE TO EDITORS:

YOU ARE INVITED TO SEND REPRESENTATIVES TO COVER THE +WEDDING BUS+ TOURS AND THE PERFORMANCES AT THE VARIOUS STOPOVERS.

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PRISON STAFF COMMENDED FOR GOOD WORK

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SIX PRISON OFFICERS COMPRISING AN OFFICER, AN OFFICER CADET AND FOUR ASSISTANT OFFICERS HAVE BEEN AWARDED THE COMMISSIONER OF PRISONS' COMMENDATION FOR OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE OF DUTY.

THE AWARDS WERE PRESENTED TO THEM BY THE ACTING ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER OF PRISONS (OPERATIONS), MR R.W.B. HIGGINBOTTOM, AT A SPECIAL CEREMONY HELD IN THE MA PO PING PRISON TODAY.

SPEAKING AT THE CEREMONY, MR HIGGINBOTTOM POINTED OUT THAT THE COMMENDATIONS WERE FOR ACTIONS OVER AND ABOVE THE NORMAL CALL OF DUTY, FOUR OF WHICH IN FACT WERE EARNED WHILE THE OFFICERS CONCERNED WERE OFF DUTY.

HE SAID +IT IS OF COURSE WELL-KNOWN AND ACCEPTED WITHIN THE PRISON SERVICE THAT AN OFFICER IS NEVER REALLY OFF DUTY AND THE MANNER IN WHICH STAFF WILLINGLY RESPOND TO EMERGENCIES IS INDICATIVE OF THIS.

+THE GENERAL PUBLIC, WHO ARE THE MAIN BENEFICIARIES, ARE UNFORTUNATELY ONLY TOO RARELY MADE AWARE OF THE DILIGENCÉ, DEVOTION TO DUTY AND ON MANY OCCASIONS OUTRIGHT BRAVERY SHOWN BY OFFICERS WHOSE WORK BY ITS VERY NATURE MUST BE CARRIED OUT BEHIND CLOSED DOORS FOR MUCH OF THE TIME.+

OF THE RECIPIENTS, ASSISTANT OFFICERS KWONG CHUNG-MING AND TSANG HIN-MING WERE BOTH PRAISED FOR THE IR ALERTNESS AND DILIGENCE WHILE OFF DUTY IN PROMPTLY REPORTING AND APPREHENDING AN EX-PRISONER FOUND LOITERING WITHIN THE PRISON RESTRICTED AREA ON LANTAU, THE MAN WAS LATER CONVICTED IN COURT.

ANOTHER ASSISTANT OFFICER CHAN KAI-KUEN WON HIS COMMENDATION FOR APPREHENDING WHILE OFF DUTY A TREATMENT CENTRE INMATE WHO WAS UNLAWFULLY AT LARGE, OFFICER FUNG WING-CHEONG WAS COMMENDED FOR DEVOTION TO DUTY IN SUCCESSFULLY APPREHENDING, ALSO WHILE OFF DUTY, AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT WHO ESCAPED FROM LAWFUL DETENTION.

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