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THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1987

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TIMING OF BLITZ OPERATIONS TO CHANGE

HAS RESCHEDULED ITS RAIDS TO BARBECUR ILLEGALLY ON THE

THE URBAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT GIVE AN UNPLEASANT SURPRISE TO THOSE WHO

BEACH.

A TOTAL OF 17 CASES 14 ON SHEK O BEACH AND THREE ON BIG BAY BEACH - WERE BOOKED LAST SUNDAY (AUGUST 16).

WAVE

SQUADS OF

THE

BAY

AND 2 AM

WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE POLICE, TWO NIGHT RAID URBAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT PATROLLED THE SHEK O BEACH AND BIG WAVE REACH AND CARRIED OUT THE BLITZ OPERATION BETWEEN MIDNIGHT ON SUNDAY MORNING.

THE

DISTRICT

AMENTITIES

OFFICER

(SOUTHERN)

OF

THE

URBAN

THE LATE-NIGHT SWEEPS ON SERVICES DEPARTMENT, MR JOSEPH FUNG, SAID

CATCH REVELLERS SUNDAY WERE THE FIRST IN THE SERIES OF OPERATIONS TO WHO TURN UP LATE AND ILLEGALLY SET FIRE ON BEACHES TO COOK THEIR FOOD.

"THEY ALWAYS LEAVE BEHIND PILES OF RUBBISH ON THE THEIR ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR CAN NO LONGER BE TOLERATED,"

BEACHES AND MR FUNG SAID.

FIRE ON A BEACH FOR BARBECUE PITS, IS LIABLE TO A

HE POINTED OUT THAT ANY PERSON WHO SET COOKING FOOD, EXCEPT AT DESIGNATED MAXIMUM FINE OF $500 AND 14 DAYS' IMPRISONMENT.

LEGISLATION ALONE WOULD NOT THE PUBLIC SHOULD EXERCISE NOT TO CARRY OUT THESE ILLEGAL

HE STRESSED THAT ENFORCEMENT OF

MOST IMPORTANTLY, SOLVE THE PROBLEM. SELF-DISCIPLINE AND CONSIDERATION ACTIVITIES.

THE URBAN

SERVICES DEPARTMENT

ᏗᎦ

NOW PLANNING TO CONDUCT

ANOTHER BLITZ OPERATION IN THE COMING WEEKEND "CLEAN BEACH" PHASE ACTIVITIES OF THIS YEAR'S CAMPAIGN.

ΤΟ COINCIDE WITH THE KEEP HONG KONG CLEAN

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