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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1988

METHODS OF COMBATTING CRIME DISCUSSED

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VIEWS AND IDEAS AS TO HOW TO MORE EFFECTIVELY COMBAT

HONG KONG WERE DISCUSSED AT THE (SATURDAY).

1988

FIGHT CRIME

CRIME IN CONFERENCE TODAY

CENTRAL AND DISTRICT FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEE

THE OFFICIALS

ONE-DAY ATTENDED GOVERNMENT IS HELD EVERY TWO YEARS, TO DISCUSS WAYS

MORE THAN 300 MEMBERS AND SENIOR CONFERENCE, WHICH

REDUCING CRIME.

OF

DAVID GOVERNOR, 'SIR

WILSON, FORUM FOR COMMITTEE TO SHARE THEIR

THE ADDRESSING THE CONFERENCE, SAID THE BIENNIAL GATHERING PROVIDED A VALUABLE MEMBERS

VIEWS AND EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE.

ΤΟ

GET TOGETHER

TO

EXCHANGE

ON

HAD TAKEN

A

NUMBER

OF

IN PREPARATION FOR THE CONFERENCE, THE DFCC MEMBERS

GROUP DISCUSSIONS IN IN SIX

SEPTEMBER

CRIME-RELATED TOPICS.

PART

THE

COVERED SUBJECTS

WERE YOUTH

IN INVOLVEMENT

TRIAD

ACTIVITIES; TRIAD INFLUENCE IN OUR DAILY LIFE; CAUSES FOR THE RISE OF

PEOPLE AND JUVENILE ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR AMONG YOUNG

DELINQUENCY; HELP ΤΟ PREVENT DRUG ABUSE AND DRUG OFFENCES; HOW THE COMMUNITY CAN CRIME AND LOITERING OFFENCES.

THE GROUP DISCUSSIONS CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS REACHED AT

THE CONFERENCE AND WERE REPORTED, AND DISCUSSED, AT TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION BY THE FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEE POLICIES.

THEY WILL BE IN FORMULATING

A MAJOR SOCIAL PROBLEM

OF THE FOUNDATIONS

ANY

SIR DAVID POINTED OUT THAT CRIME WAS UNDERMINE AND IF UNCONTROLLED, IT WOULD SOCIETY, ERODE ITS STANDARDS AND DESTROY ITS PROSPERITY.

JOB FOR SIR DAVID SAID THE FIGHT AGAINST CRIME WAS NOT JUST A

COMMUNITY AWARENESS AND THE GOVERNMENT AND THAT A STRONG ELEMENT OF INVOLVEMENT WAS ALSO NEEDED.

THE GOVERNOR WAS GLAD TO NOTE THAT THE CONFERENCE WAS "LET'S FIGHT CRIME TOGETHER".

HAVE MADE

THEME OF THIS YEAR'S

ΤΟ ENSURE THE

CONSIDERABLE

EFFORTS

"IN HONG KONG WE CLOSE CO-OPERATION BETWEEN THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT, THE POLICE AND COMMUNITY AT DISTRICT LEVEL.

CONTINUE то INVOLVE CRIME," SIR DAVID CRIME,

"WE MUST CONTINUE THESE EFFORTS AND MUST PEOPLE FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST SAID.

/IN HIS