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SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 1985

PC PUTS BELIEF INTO ACTION

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POLICE CON STABLE 590 BELIEVES IN KEEPING THE STREETS SAFE FOR MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.

AND IN PUTTING HIS BELIEF INTO ACTION, CONSTABLE ALAN CHEUNG PING KUEN (27) HAS MADE ABOUT 50 ARRESTS BETWEEN MAY 1983 AND SO FAR THIS YEAR WHILE ON BEAT DUTY IN THE STREETS OF TAI KOK TSUI.

CONSTABLE CHEUNG HAS ALSO CONDUCTED MANY STOP AND SEARCHES AND FOUND MISSING AND WANTED PERSONS AMONG THOSE HE HAD STOPPED.

''THAT'S WHAT A POLICEMAN IS PAID FOR, MANY MAY REMARK.

BUT FOR A UNIFORMED OFFICER WALKING THE BEAT TO MAKE THAT MANY ARRESTS IS A FEAT WHICH DESERVES MENTION AND RECOMMENDATION AS MOST ARRESTS ARE MADE BY CRIME UNITS FOLLOWING INVESTIGATION INTO CRIMES AND CRIME REPORTS.

AND CONSTABLE CHEUNG IN FACT RECEIVED THE COMMANDING OFFICER'S COMMENDATION LAST WEEK FROM REGIONAL COMMANDER, KOWLOON, MR JOHN SHEPPARD FOR ABILITY, ENERGY AND DEVOTION TO DUTY OF A VERY HIGH ORDER BETWEEN MAY 1983 AND DECEMBER 1984.

WITH THAT MANY ARRESTS AND STOPPING MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC IN THE STREETS ONE WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT CONSTABLE CHEUNG WOULD BE THE SUBJECT OF COMPLAINTS.

IN MY CAREER AS A CONSTABLE WHICH BEGAN IN 1976 THERE WERE ONLY TWO COMPLAINTS AGAINST ME - ONE WAS OVER A TRAFFIC TICKET AND THE OTHER WAS A SUSPECT WHOM I HAD ARRESTED FOR A DRUG OFFENCE. THE FIRST COMPLAINT AFTER INVESTIGATION WAS JUDGED UNSUBSTANTIATED AND AS FOR THE OTHER, THE MAN WAS CONVICTED AND JAILED, THE CON STABLE SAID.

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''THERE SHOULD NOT BE ANY COMPLAINTS IF AN OFFICER KNOWS HIS DUTY AND, MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL, THE LAW," HE SAID.

IN ORDER TO KNOW THE LAW AS A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, CON STABLE CHEUNG IS A REGULAR CUSTOMER AT THE GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SERVICES' GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS SALES CENTRE.

''I GO THERE OFTEN TO BUY THE OFFPRINTS OF ORDINANCES. IF THERE ARE ONLY ENGLISH VERSIONS I WOULD BUY THAT, OTHERWISE I WOULD GO FOR THE CHINESE ONES. AND THE COST RANGES FROM ONE DOLLAR TO TENS OF DOLLARS,** HE SAID.

/THE CONSTABLE