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SUNBAY, JANUARY

1907

ANTI-CRIME EFFORTS SUCCEED IN TUEN MUN

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CONCERTED EFFORTS BY THE POLICE AND THE PUBLIC HAVE BROUGHT ABOUT A SIGNIFICANT DROP IN CRINE IN TUEN NUN ALTHOUGH THE POPULATION OF THE NEW TOWN 'HAS BEEN GROWING, A MEMBER OF THE CENTRAL FIGHT GRIME COMMITTEE, DR HO KAN-FAI, SAID TODAY (SUNDAY).

SPEAKING AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE TUEN MUN CRIME PREVENTION CARNIVAL AT TUEN MUN PLAYGROUND, DR HO SAID THAT PRELIMINARY FIGURES SHOWED A DROP OF 9,5 PÉR CENT IN REPORTED CRIMES, FROM 2 656 CASES IN 1985 TO' 2 403 CASES LAST YEAR.

BURGLARY CASES DECLINED BY 10.7 PER CENT, FROM 420 TO 375. THERE WAS A DECREASE IN THEFTS FROM VENICLES, FROM 364 TO 349. THESE ALL INDICATED THAT THE LAW AND ORDER SİTUATION IN THE DISTRICT WAS QUITE SATISFACTORY, DR NO SAID,

BR HO NOTED THAT THE DISTRICT FIGHT GRINE, CAMPAIGN PLACED MUCH EMPHASIS ON CO-OPERATION BETWEEN DEIGHBOURS IN PREVENTION OF RESIDENTIAL BURGLARIES. IN THIS REGARD, THE NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH SCHEME HAD DRAWN QUITE A GOOD RESPONSE FROM RESIDENTS.

IMPLEMENTED IN DECEMBER 1984, THE NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH_SCHEME HAD ATTRACTED 1 663 FAMILIES FROM ́ 10 BUILDINGS IN ITS FIRST TWO PHASES.

IN THE SCHEME'S THIRD PHASE, JUST BEGUN, 1 228 FAMILIES FROM FIVE OTHER 'BUILDINGS HAD JOINED,

TODAY'S CRIME PREVENTION CARNIVAL, ORGANISED BY THE TUEN MUN DISTRICT CRIME PREVENTION CAMPAIGN ORGÀNISING COMMITTEE, WAS AIMED AT AROUSING PUBLIC AVARERESS IN FIGHTING CRIME,

CERTIFICATES WERE AWARDED TO NINE MODEL CITIZENS IN THE DISTRICT INO HAD ASSISTED THE POLICE IN COMBATTING CRIME.

A BRIEF CEREMONY WAS HELD TO MARK THE START OF THE THIRD PHASE OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH SCHEME.

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