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WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1988

"A FEW MEMBERS FEEL

OF

SEEN BY THE

QUITE STRONGLY THAT THE HANDLING COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE POLICE HAVE NOT BEEN AND ARE NOT PUBLIC TO BE TOTALLY UNBIASED,

"I

SHE SAID.

COMMISSIONER

THIS GAVE RISE TO THE SUGGESTION THAT PERHAPS THE COULD BE GIVEN THE POWER TO ACT AS A LAST RESORT FOR COMPLAINANTS WHO HAD EXHAUSTED THE EXISTING CHANNELS OF THE COMPLAINTS AGAINST OFFICE AND THE POLICE COMPLAINTS COMMITTEE,

PROVIDED

THE

IN QUESTION FITTED THE DEFINITION OF MALADMINISTRATION.

OF

POLICE COMPLAINTS

THE VIEW MEMBER OF CASES ON PUBLIC HOPES

MRS CHOW NOTED THAT THE GOVERNMENT, HOWEVER, WAS THAT THE ARRANGEMENT FOR ENABLING THE COMMISSIONER TO BE A THE POLICE COMPLAINTS COMMITTEE WOULD ENABLE HIM TO LOOK AT WHICH HE MIGHT HAVE QUESTIONS, WHILE IT WOULD NOT RAISE WHICH THE COMMISSIONER MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO SATISFY.

THE MAJORITY OF THE MEMBERS OF THE AD HOC GROUP WERE TO ACCEPT THE GOVERNMENT'S SUGGESTION AS A BEGINNING, SHE SAID.

PREPARED

OF THE

THE, MATTER WOULD NO DOUBT BE REVIEWED IN THE CONTEXT EFFECTIVENESS OF THE JURISDICTION CONTAINED IN THE BILL A YEAR OR AFTER THE LAW HAD BEEN ENACTED, SHE ADDED.

TWO

JURISDICTION

AS

SINCE THE CONTACT

TWO

REGARDING THE SCOPE OF THE COMMISSIONER'S OUTLINED IN THE FIRST SCHEDULE, MRS CHOW POINTED OUT THAT OMELCO SECRETARIAT WAS INCLUDED BECAUSE IT CAME INTO REGULAR WITH THE PUBLIC, MEMBERS FELT THAT FOR THE SAME REASONS THE SECRETARIATS OF THE MUNICIPAL COUNCILS SHOULD ALSO BE INCLUDED.

"THE ADMINISTRATION HAS AGREED то CONSULT THE CONCERNED FOR INCLUSION AT A LATER STAGE,

SHE NOTED.

PARTIES

WHILE SPEAKING ON THE REFERRAL ARRANGEMENT, MRS ALTHOUGH SOME MEMBERS STILL PREFERRED THE DIRECT APPROACH, THE AD

CHOW SAID GROUP IN GENERAL ACCEPTED THAT

HOC LEGCO SCREENING AND HAVE MERIT.

MONITORING DID

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"WHAT MUST BE RESOLVED ARE THE LOGISTICS OF THE CASES AND INVOLVEMENT OF MEMBERS,

" SHE SAID.

RECEPTION OF

MONITOR

SHE ADDED THAT LEGCO HAD ALSO TO EXAMINE HOW IT SHOULD AND LIAISE WITH THE COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE WHICH, NO DOUBT, WOULD BE PRIORITY MATTER IN THE NEW SESSION.

MRS CHOW ALSO MOVED A NUMBER OF COMMITTEE STAGE THE BILL WHICH RESULTED FROM SUGGESTIONS PUT FORWARD GROUP AND ACCEPTED BY THE GOVERNMENT.

A

BY

AMENDMENTS TO THE AD HOC

OF

ONE OF THE AMENDMENTS WAS TO EXTEND THE DEFINITION MALADMINISTRATION TO INCLUDE THE EXERCISE OF DISCRETIONARY POWERS, 30 AS TO PUT IT BEYOND DOUBT THAT THE WRONGFUL EXERCISE OF SUCH WOULD FALL WITHIN THE JURISDICTION OF THE COMMISSIONER.

POWERS

/ANOTHER AMENDMENT