XN000022-1988-05-14 — Page 9

8

SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1988

PRAISE FOR AUXILIARY POLICE

THE INTENSIVE TRAINING RECEIVED BY AUXILIARY OFFICERS HAS PREPARED THEM FOR ANY EMERGENCIES, AND A RECENT SHOOTING AND ROBBERY CASE HAS SHOWN CRIMINALS THAT THE AUXILIARY POLICE ARE A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH, A FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEE MEMBER SAID TODAY (SATURDAY).

SPEAKING AT A PASSING-OUT PARADE AT THE AUXILIARY POLICE HEADQUARTERS IN KOWLOON BAY THIS MORNING, MS CHRISTINA

TING, OF THE EASTERN DISTRICT FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEE, RECALLED THAT AN AUXILIARY POLICE OFFICER WAS THE KEY FIGURE IN FOILING A MAJOR ROBBERY ATTEMPT RECENTLY, AND SEVERAL SUSPECTS WERE CAPTURED FOLLOWING A SHOOTOUT,

SHE SAID THE OFFICER'S DECISIVE ROLE HAD STRENGTHENED THE MORALE OF THE AUXILIARY POLICE, AND IT WAS SOMETHING FOR THE WHOLE POLICE FORCE TO BE PROUD OF.

MS TING ADDED THAT MORE THAN 20 AUXILIARY POLICE OFFICERS SERVED IN THE EASTERN DISTRICT EVERY DAY, SHARING THE WORK WITH REGULAR POLICE OFFICERS.

ON TOP OF THAT, AUXILIARY POLICE OFFICERS WERE ALSO RESPONSIBLE FOR CROWD CONTROL DUTIES AT THE BEACHES, AND WITH THE SWIMMING SEASON APPROACHING, THEIR WORKLOAD WOULD BE HEAVIER THAN EVER.

ON PARADE WERE 130 OFFICERS FROM THE HONG KONG ISLAND DISTRICT (AUXILIARY), WHO HAD JUST COMPLETED THEIR ANNUAL TRAINING CAMP AND WOULD BE RETURNING TO THEIR NORMAL DUTIES.

VOLUNTEERS SOUGHT FOR PROBATIONERS SCHEME

*

VOLUNTEERS ARE BEING SOUGHT BY THE SOCIAL WELFARE TO HELP WITH THE REHABILITATION OF OFFENDERS UNDER THE SCHEME FOR PROBATIONERS (VSP).

DEPARTMENT VOLUNTEERS

SHOULD

BE

A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DEPARTMENT SAID THE VOLUNTEERS AGED 21 YEARS OR ABOVE, WITH SECONDARY EDUCATION, AND BE KEEN IN HELPING OTHER PEOPLE, PARTICULARLY YOUNG OFFENDERS.

/"THEY CAN