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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29,

1988

IN HIS SPEECH, THE CHIEF SECRETARY, SIR DAVID FORD, WHO IS ALSO CHAIRMAN OF THE FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEE,

ASSURED

THAT THE

GOVERNMENT

CONTINUED TO GIVE THE FIGHT AGAINST CRIME THE HIGHEST PRIORITY,

GOVERNMENT

WAS DETERMINED COULD BE

TO LOOK PROUD OF THE WHEN COMPARED

SIR DAVID SAID WHILE THE AFTER THE SECURITY OF ITS PEOPLE, HONG KONG FACT THAT IT WAS DOING WELL IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CRIME TO OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD.

SERIOUS OFFENCES

IN

HIGHER

HONG THAN

"THE AVERAGE ANNUAL CRIME RATE FOR

IS SLIGHTLY KONG IS 507 PER 100,000 POPULATION. THIS

FAVOURABLY BUT COMPARES VERY TOKYO'S 384 PER 100,000 POPULATION,

100,000 OF PEOPLE, WITH LONDON'S FIGURE OF 2,613 SERIOUS CRIMES PER

100,000 WASHINGTON'S 3,662, AND A UNITED STATES' AVERAGE OF 1,908 PER POPULATION.

IT

FORCE,

PLAY

AN

"FOR A CITY OF OUR SIZE AND DENSITY, THIS IS A GOOD RECORD. REFLECTS WELL ON THE PROFESSIONALISM AND QUALITY OF OUR POLICE

PREPARED TO WHICH IS INCREASINGLY AND ON OUR COMMUNITY, ACTIVE PART IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CRIME,

HE SAID.

NOT

AS

FIGHT

COMPLACENT BE HOWEVER, SIR DAVID SAID HONG KONG MUST CRIME REMAINED A SUBJECT OF SERIOUS CONCERN AND THAT EFFORTS TO AGAINST CRIME MUST BE MAINTAINED.

JUVENILE OF THE AREAS WHERE MORE NEEDED TO BE DONE, TRIADS WERE OF MAJOR PUBLIC CONCERN, SIR DAVID SAID.

AND

CRIME AND

YEAR, THERE

INVOLVED,

WERE 138

DURING THE PERIOD JANUARY TO SEPTEMBER THIS

THOSE AMONGST 1,478 OFFENCES RELATING TO TRIADS WERE YOUNG PEOPLE BETWEEN THE AGES OF SEVEN AND 15.

TO WARN THE TRIAD

SIR DAVID SAID EFFORTS WOULD CONTINUE TO BE MADE COMMUNITY, PARTICULARLY YOUNG PEOPLE, TO AVOID INVOLVEMENT WITH AND REPORT ANY APPROACH MADE, OR ATTEMPT AT RECRUITMENT, BY TRIADS.

OVER

AS FOR PROVIDING AN OPPORTUNITY FOR TRIAD MEMBERS TO TURN

WOULD SCHEME RENUNCIATION TRIAD A NEW LEAF, SIR DAVID SAID THE INTRODUCED BY THE END OF THIS YEAR.

BE

THE THIRD TIME,

ON

THE WHOLE-DAY CONFERENCE, WHICH WAS HELD FOR WAS CHAIRED BY FCC MEMBER DR HO KAM-FAI. IN ADDITION TO DISCUSSION

BY THE CHIEF JUSTICE, FIGHT CRIME MATTERS, IT COMPRISED ALSO TALKS

SIR TI LIANG YANG, AND THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF POLICE (OPERATIONS), MR LI KWAN-HA.

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