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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1988

"IT HAS LOOKED NOT JUST AT APPEALS TO THE GOVERNOR IN BUT ALSO AT APPEALS TO THE GOVERNOR, TO SPECIALIST TRIBUNALS GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS.

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COUNCIL,

AND TO

BE

SIR DAVID SAID THAT ALTHOUGH GENERAL CONCLUSIONS HAD YET TO DRAWN, IT WAS CLEAR THAT, IN MOST PROCEDURES WERE WORKING WELL.

CASES, THE EXISTING APPEALS

"I THINK IT UNLIKELY, THEREFORE, CHANGE IS IMMEDIATELY NECESSARY.

THAT

ANY ROOT AND BRANCH

"HOWEVER, SOME AREAS HAVE BEEN

IDENTIFIED APPEALS

WHERE, SUBJECT TO PROCEDURES

MAY BE

WARRANTED,

中

HE SAID.

THE ADVICE OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL, NEW

THE REVIEW SECRETARY HAD

DR SOHMEN HAD ASKED WHAT PROGRESS HAD BEEN MADE ON OF ADMINISTRATIVE APPEALS WHICH HE SAID THE FINANCIAL PROMISED WOULD RECEIVE EARLY ATTENTION WHEN HE LAST COMMENTED ISSUE IN THE DEBATE ON THE BANKING BILL 1986 IN MAY OF THAT YEAR.

ON THE

NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICING ALLOWS BETTER USE OF RESOURCES

THE NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICE OFFICES

USE OF POLICE

(NPO) SCHEME RESOURCES

ALLOWS BETTER AND MORE POLICE TERRITORY, THE SECRETARY FOR SECURITY, THE HON GEOFFREY

COVERAGE THROUGHOUT THE IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

BARNES, SAID

IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON BARNES SAID THE NPO SCHEME ALLOWED POLICE

POON EFFECTIVELY.

RESOURCES TO

CHI-FA1, MR BE DEPLOYED

HE SAID THE NUMBER OF CRIMES REPORTED HAD HAD BEEN A SLIGHT INCREASE IN THOSE DETECTED REVISED.

LEVELLED SINCE THE

AND THERE SCHEME WAS

"FEWER REPORTS HAVE BEEN MADE TO NPO BUT MORE TO PATROLLING OFFICERS," HE SAID.

HAVE BEEN MADE

OFFICES: 57 IN THE NOW ISLAND AND 10 IN THE EITHER PLANNED OR UNDER

ISLANDS.

THERE WERE 144 NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICE TERRITORIES, 41 IN KOWLOON, 36 ON HONG OUTLYING

KONG

A FURTHER

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CONSTRUCTION.

MR BARNES SAID THE NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICING SCHEME WAS INTRODUCED IN 1974 WITH THE AIM OF FOSTERING CLOSER TIES BETWEEN THE THE COMMUNITY IN FIGHTING CRIME.

POLICE

AND

/IT WAS