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WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1988

BY THE

MR HUI SAID HE WAS CONVINCED

ANGER, FRUSTRATION AND HELPLESSNESS OF PEOPLE WHO ASKED TO SEE HIM WHEN ALL DOORS OF THE PRESENT REMEDIAL SYSTEM WERE CLOSED THAT THE EXISTING FOR COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE ABUSE OF AUTHORITY, AND ICAC, WAS GROSSLY INADEQUATE.

REDRESS THE INCLUDING

SYSTEM POLICE

HOW

CITED A HE

CASE INVOLVING THE POLICE то ILLUSTRATE

THE POLICE PERSONAL INJUSTICES INFLICTED BY INAPPROPRIATE ACTIONS OF WERE OFTEN NOT RESOLVED.

THE

LODGING

FIRST, THERE WAS THE UNREASONABLY LONG TIME THE AUTHORITIES TOOK TO INVESTIGATE COMPLAINTS, CAUSING INTERMINABLE SUFFERING IN

ΤΟ DETERRENT PUNITIVE SENSE TO THE COMPLAINANTS, BECOMING A COMPLAINTS AGAINST MALADMINISTRATION.

SECRETIVE PEOPLE TO

SECONDLY, THE OFFICIAL RESPONSE TO ENQUIRIES AND THE

HAD FORCED MANNER IN WHICH INVESTIGATION WAS CARRIED OUT BECOME INCREDULOUS OF THE IMPARTIALTY OF AN INVESTIGATORY MECHANISM MANNED BY CIVIL SERVANTS.

THE MONITORING

WERE

THIRDLY, APPEALS MADE TO

WHICH BODIES, LEFT AT THE MERCY OF CIVIL SERVANTS, OFTEN ENDED UP WITH THE ORIGINAL DECISION, WITHOUT EXPLANATION GIVEN ON THE RATIONALE BEHIND IT.

C FOR AC BILL FAR FROM PERFECT

THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL FLAW IN THE COMMISSIONER FOR ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINTS BILL 1988 1S THE EXCLUSION OF THE POLICE AND THE ICAC FROM THE JURISDICTION OF THE COMMISSIONER FOR ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINTS (C FOR AC).

WHEN

THIS WAS ONE OF THE CRITICISMS MADE BY THE HON MARTIN LEE HE SPOKE IN SUPPORT OF THE BILL DURING THE RESUMED DEBATE IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

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DECIDED TO SUPPORT THE

HE EXPLAINED THAT HE HAD RELUCTANTLY BILL DESPITE 'STRONG RESERVATIONS" BECAUSE HE DID NOT WANT TO FURTHER DELAY ITS PASSAGE.

HE POINTED OUT THAT THE LONG-AWAITED BILL WAS FAR FROM BEING PERFECT" AND THERE WERE A NUMBER OF "IMPORTANT DEFICIENCIES".

/HE NOTED ...............

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