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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1984

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'OUTSIDERS' BEHIND MOST CRIMES

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THE MAJORITY OF CRIMES IN THE YAU MA TEI DISTRICT ARE COMMITTED BY PEOPLE WHO DO NOT LIVE IN THE AREA, DISTRICT OFFICER, MR BOWEN LEUNG SAID TODAY (SATURDAY).

SPEAKING AT THE DISTRICT CRIME PREVENTION QUIZ COMPETITION,

MR LEUNG SAID A RECENT POLICE SURVEY SHOWED THAT ABOUT 80 PER CENT OF THE CRIMES COMMITTED IN THE DISTRICT WERE NOT BY RESIDENTS OF YAU MA TEI, WHILE 70 PER CENT OF THE VICTIMS WERE NON-LOCAL RESIDENTS.

+ABOUT 40 PER CENT OF THE CRIMES WERE COMMITTED BY YOUNG PEOPLE, EIGHT PER CENT OF WHOM HAVE CRIMINAL RECORDS, MR LEUNG SAID.

+THE RESULTS OF THE SURVEY SHOW THAT MOST OF THE LOCAL RESIDENTS ARE LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS, HE ADDED.

MR LEUNG SAID THE POLICE WOULD BE PAYING SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THE FACT THAT OUTSIDERS WERE GOING INTO THE DISTRICT TO COMMIT CRIMES AND WOULD BE ADOPTING MEASURES TO HELP PREVENT LOCAL RESIDENTS FROM BECOMING VICTIMS OF CRIME.

THERE ARE NOW ABOUT 170 000 PEOPLE LIVING IN YAU MA TE!, BUT ABOUT 310 000 PEOPLE FROM OTHER AREAS PASS THROUGH THE DISTRICT DAILY, PARTICULARLY IN TSIM SHA TSUI WHERE THERE IS A HIGH CONCENTRATION OF COMMERCIAL AND ENTERTAINMENT CENTRES.

MR LEUNG NOTED THAT REGULAR VISITS TO OWNERS CORPORATIONS AND MUTUAL AID COMMITTEES BY STAFF OF THE POLICE PUBLIC RELATIONS BRANCH HAD BEEN VERY EFFECTIVE IN PROMOTING CO-OPERATION BETWEEN THE POLICE AND THE PUBLIC.

HK'S FIRST +ORIENTEERING TRIM COURSE+ OPENS

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YOUNGSTERS WHO PREFER OUTDOOR EXERCISES THAT ARE MORE

CHALLENGING THAN JOGGING OR HIKING CAN NOW TRY THE NEW +ORIENTEERING TRIM COURSE IN THE POK FU LAM COUNTRY PARK.

THE COURSE, THE FIRST OF ITS KIND IN HONG KONG, WAS DESIGNED BY THE ORIENTEERING ASSOCIATION OF HONG KONG (OAHK) AND SET UP BY THE AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES DEPARTMENT,

IT WAS OFFICIALLY OPENED THIS (SATURDAY) AFTERNOON BY

MR HOWARD YOUNG, PATRON OF OAHK AND AN UNOFFICIAL MEMBER OF THE COUNTRY PARKS BOARD.

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