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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1988

IT WAS STRENGTHENED IN CO-ORDINATORS, POLICE SERGEANTS INTRODUCED.

1984 WHEN TRAINED IN PUBLIC

RELATIONS,

NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICE WERE

THE NPO SCHEME WORKED THROUGH THE POLICE CO-ORDINATORS, WHO WERE NORMALLY BASED AT NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICE OFFICES AND WERE AVAILABLE FOR CONSULTATION WITH LOCAL RESIDENTS AT SET TIMES.

ALL NPO WERE INCLUDED IN THE BEATS OF THEIR PARTICULAR POLICE USUALLY DIVISION AND WERE MANNED REGULARLY BY A PATROLLING CONSTABLE, FOR ABOUT 15 MINUTES IN EVERY HOUR.

THE NPO WOULD BE CLOSED WHEN THE CONSTABLE WAS AWAY ON PATROL BUT MOST HAD A PUBLIC TELEPHONE FOR 999 CALLS.

THE EXAMPLE, HOWEVER, MANNING OF NPO MIGHT VARY. FOR THE STAR FERRY CONCOURSE ON HONG KONG ISLAND WAS OPEN AS LONG STAR PERRY WAS OPERATING.

NPO AT AS THE

POLICE UNITS WERE HAD MISGIVINGS WHEN THE

NEIGHBOURHOOD MR BARNES SAID THAT THE OLD POPULAR WITH LOCAL RESIDENTS AND MANY SCHEME WAS INTRODUCED.

NEW

"BUT THERE ARE NOW MORE NPO THAN IN 1984 AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

GOOD RELATIONS POLICE CO-ORDINATORS HAVE ESTABLISHED VERY

WITH THE COMMUNITIES WHICH THEY SERVE," HE SAID.

CONSIDERS THAT

THE PUBLIC HAVE POLICE

"THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE ACCEPTED THE CHANGES THE APPRECIATE THAT THE NEW SCHEME ALLOWS RESOURCES TO BE DEPLOYED MORE EQUITABLY AND EFFECTIVELY.

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MR BARNES SAID THE NPO SCHEME WAS REVIEWED AT THE END AND AGAIN IN LATE 1987.

OF 1984

IN 1984, THE CONCLUSION WAS THAT

HAD THE REORGANISATION RESOURCES; POLICE

GENERAL CRITICISM BY ALLOWED BETTER USE OF

THE BE FITTED PUBLIC HAD BEEN MINOR; AND THAT EXTERNAL TELEPHONES SHOULD FOR THE PUBLIC TO CALL 999 WHEN THE NPO WAS CLOSED.

THAT THE "THE 1987 REVIEW CONFIRMED

OF

MANPOWER, POLICE EFFECTIVE USE

PUTTING STREETS AND GIVING MORE EVEN POLICE COVERAGE

HE SAID.

NPO

SCHEME IS A MORE MORE

ON OFFICERS

THE THROUGHOUT HONG KONG,"

"SINCE 1984 SLIGHTLY MORE ARRESTS HAVE BEEN MADE BY MEMBERS THE PUBLIC.

TO

OF

REVISE THE NPO

SCHEME WIT|| THE

HE ADDED THAT THERE WERE NO PLANS ALTHOUGH IT WAS INTENDED THAT IT SHOULD EXPAND TO KEEP PACE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY.

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