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SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1987

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CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS TOLD TO MEET CHALLENGE

FORTY NEW CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS WERE TODAY (SATURDAY) TOLD THAT THEIR JOB WAS TOUGH AND THEY MUST BE PREPARED TO MEET CHALLENGES AHEAD.

SPEAKING AT A PASSING-OUT PARADE OF THE CORRECTIONAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT AT STANLEY, THE DIRECTOR OF FIRE SERVICES, MR ROBERT 'TOLMES, SAID THE TASK OF REHABILITATING OFFENDERS WAS "UNENVIABLE" LIFE OF CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS WAS OFTEN BOUND BY DUTIES AND THE PUBLIC'S DEMAND ON THEM WAS STRICT.

"YOU WILL FIND THAT YOU RÉCEIVE VERY FEW PATS ON THE BACK FOR FERFORMING YOUR DUTIES COMPETENTLY AND ABLY, BUT MAKE ONE ERROR, ALBEIT IN SINCERITY, AND MR PUBLIC WILL ONLY BE TOO PLEASED TO ACCUSE AND CONDEMN," MR HOLMES SAID.

ON THE OTHER HAND, MR HOLMES CONTINUED, THERE WAS A "UNIQUE" BROTHERHOOD IN THE CORRECTIONAL PROFESSION WHICH DIFFERED DISCIPLINED SERVICES.

FROM OTHER

THEY WOULD SERVICE

AS THE OFFICERS MATURED IN DEALING WITH OFFENDERS, FIND THEIR JOB A WORTHWHILE CAREER AND WOULD BE PROUD OF THE AND THEIR UNIFORM, MR HOLMES SAID.

THE 40 NEW CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS COMPRISE 29 MALE FEMALE ASSISTANT OFFICERS GRADUATING FROM A 26-WEEK TRAINING PROVIDED BY THE CORRECTIONAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT.

AND 11 COURSE

MR HOLMES, THE INSPECTING OFFICER, ALSO PRESENTED SILVER WHISTLES TO THE TWO BEST RECRUITS, ASSISTANT OFFICER LO PING-CHEONG AND ASSISTANT OFFICER LEUNG KIN-LAP.

LAST PARADE FOR AUXILIARY POLICE COMMANDANT

TODAY

TS'O. BRINGING DOWN THE

THE PASSING OUT PARADE AT AUXILIARY POLICE HEADQUARTERS (SATURDAY) IS A POIGNANT OCCASION FOR THE COMMANDANT, MR. NYLON IT IS THE LAST PARADE HE REVIEWS BEFORE RETIRING, CURTAIN ON 40 YEARS OF SERVICE IN THE AUXILIARY POLICE.

MR.

ADDRESSING THE 169 RECRUÏT AUXIE POLICE CONSTABLES TODAY,

ΤΟ ORDER TS'O SAID IN

UPKEEP THE IMAGE OF

то AUXILIARIES AND

THE MAINTAIN THEIR TRADITION, IT WOULD BE THEIR MAIN TASK TO BUILD UP

THE FOOT STEPS YOUNGER GENERATIONS OF THE POLICE FORCE TO FOLLOW IN OF THE PREDECESSORS.

/HE EMPHASISED