SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1988
11
GROWING DEMANDS ON POLICE IN NT
THE
NOW TAKING
PLACE
THE DEVELOPMENT
NEW
GROWTH DRAMATIC
THROUGHOUT TERRITORIES IN TERMS OF POPULATION, TRAFFIC AND NEW TOWN IS HAPPENING AT A RATE NEVER BEFORE EXPERIENCED IN HONG KONG.
IS EXPANDING AT NEW TERRITORIES POPULATION, NOW TWO MILLION,
A YEAR AND VAST THE RATE OF 100,000 PEOPLE
BUILDING, TRADE AND GROWING NEEDS IN POLICING TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENTS ALSO PRESENT THE REGION.
H
SUCH A COMMANDER,
BEEN SEEN 'BEFORE IN "THIS SORT OF GROWTH HAS NEVER SHORT TIME, SAID THE POLICE NEW TERRITORIES REGIONAL MR RICHARD SMALLSHAW.
ESTABLISHING NEW THE
GOVERNMENT "IT IS PARALLEL TO THE HONG KONG TOWNS AND PART AND PARCEL OF THEIR DEVELOPMENT THAT WITH IT GROWS NEED TO KEEP ON TOP OF LAW AND ORDER."
MR. SMALLSHAW SAID THAT LAST YEAR SAW A 10 IN CRIME IN THE NEW TERRITORIES.
IN CRIME
IN THE
-
PER CENT INCREASE
THE INCREASE
REGION TOOK PLACE IN FOUR TUEN MUN, YUEN LONG, DISTRICTS WHERE DEVELOPMENT WAS AT ITS GREATEST SHATIN AND TSUEN WAN.
WE ARE
NEED
ΤΟ
FEW
"I ANTICIPATE THAT WITH FUTURE INCREASES IN POPULATION
RISE IN CRIME. THAT IS WHY WE LIKELY TO SEE A FURTHER INCREASE RESOURCES AND FACILITIES IN SUCH A BIG WAY OVER THE NEXT YEARS.
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MR. SMALLSHAW SPOKE
PROGRESS IN ALREADY IN PROPOSALS FOR THE FUTURE.
AGAINST A BACKDROP OF FORCE EXPANSION AND IN TERMS OF BUILDINGS AND MANPOWER
TERMS OF THE HE ALSO HIGHLIGHTED THE NEEDS FOR THE FUTURE IN
GROWTH OF NEW TERRITORIES TRADE AND TRANSPORTATION
CONTINUING INFRASTRUCTURE.
"I WOULD SAY THAT 1997 ALREADY HAS A OTHER SIDE DEVELOPMENT OF SHENZHEN ON THE BORDER.
BEARING ON US, IN
THE
OF THE HONG
KONG-CHINA
IMPACT ON US "THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ECONOMIC ZONE HAS A BIG
IN THE TRAFFIC WHICH WE NOW SEE CROSS
REGION IN TERMS OF
BORDER
UP TO 100,000 PEOPLE A DAY OF 11,000 VEHICLES EACH WAY DAILY AND GOING IN AND OUT OF CHINA.
DEVELOPMENTS NOW TAKING PLACE AND THOSE IN GESTATION WOULD TAKE THE POLICING OF THE NEW TERRITORIES WELL INTO THE 1990S, HE SAID.
/FIVE MAJOR
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