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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1986

OTHER MEASURES WHICH MET WITH GENERAL SUPPORT INCLUDED INCREASED FINES FOR TRIAD OFFENCES, THE INTRODUCTION OF A TRIAD RENUNCIATION SCHEME. THE USE OF TASK FORCES TO

INVESTIGATE TRIAD BACKED ORGANISED CRIME AND TOUGHER ACTION AGAINST VICE ESTABLISHMENTS AND AGAINST ILLEGAL GAMBLING.

+MOST OF THESE PROPOSALS REQUIRE AMENDMENT TO THE LAW OR NEW LEGISLATION AND THIS IS BEING, AND WILL BE, FOLLOWED UP,+ HE SAID.

SIR DAVID SAID DIFFERING VIEWS WERE EXPRESSED ABOUT SOME OF THE OPTIONS DESCRIBED IN THE DISCUSSION DOCUMENT, PARTICULARLY POLICE SUPERVISION AND PROHIBITING ENTRY TO CERTAIN PREMISES FOR CONVICTED TRIAD MEMBERS. THESE IDEAS WOULD REQUIRE FURTHER STUDY.

+THE GOVERNMENT WILL NOT PURSUE THREE OPTIONS. THESE WERE A POSSIBLE CHANGE TO SECTION 20 OF THE SOCIETIES ORDINANCE DEALING WITH THE DISPLAY OF TRIAD MEMBERSHIP, TO SECTION 22 OF THE SOCIETIES ORDINANCE ON THE RECRUITING OF TRIADS AND TO THE POSSIBILITY OF INTRODUCING MORE FORMS OF LEGAL GAMBLING,+ SIR DAVID SAID.

SIR DAVID NOTED THAT GOVERNMENT'S ACTION AGAINST CRIME WAS SPEARHEADED BY THE FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEE, WHICH WAS SUPPORTED BY A UNIQUE SYSTEM OF DISTRICT FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEES WHERE THE POLICE AND THE PEOPLE WORKED TOGETHER TO FIGHT CRIME.

+ THE FIGHT IS NOT ONE OF INSTANT VICTORY. IT IS A WAR OF ATTRITION AND ADJUSTMENT TO CHANGING NEEDS,+ HE ADDED.

LABOUR CHIEF GIVES ASSURANCE ON CONSULTATION

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THE COMMISSIONER FOR LABOUR WILL CONSULT THE SAFETY OFFICERS ADVISORY COMMITTEE BEFORE HE EXERCISES HIS POWERS UNDER THE FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKING ORDINANCE AND IF AN APPEAL IS MADE TO THE SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER, A THOROUGH INVESTIGATION WILL BE MADE BEFORE THE APPEAL IS DECIDED, THE SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER, THE HON RON BRIDGE, SAID IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

REPLYING TO MEMBERS' SPEECHES ON THE FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (SAFETY OFFICERS AND SAFETY SUPERVISORS) REGULATIONS 1986, MR BRIDGE SAID THAT IF THIS SYSTEM PROVED TO BE UNSATISFACTORY THIS ASPECT OF THE REGULATIONS WOULD BE REVIEWED.

/ON CLARIFYING