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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1988

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ACTION TAKEN TO CURB ILLEGAL RACING

THE

ROAD RACING THE POLICE HAVE STEPPED UP ACTION AGAINST ILLEGAL DURING WEEKENDS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS, THE SECRETARY FOR TRANSPORT, HON MICHAEL LEUNG, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

LEUNG SAID

USUALLY

THE TOOK

REPLYING TO A QUESTION FROM DR DANIEL TSE, MR POLICE WERE AWARE OF THE AREAS WHERE ILLEGAL CAR RACING PLACE.

AREAS. ROAD " HE SAID.

"SPECIAL POLICE TASK FORCES ARE DEPLOYED TO THESE BLOCKS AND RADAR SPEED CHECKS ARE USED TO DETECT OFFENDERS,

"VEHICLES FOUND TO HAVE BEEN INSPECTION BY MOTOR VEHICLE EXAMINERS.

MODIFIED ARE IMPOUNDED

FOR

EVIDENCE OF "WHERE THERE IS INSUFFICIENT

ROAD RACING, THE SUCH OFFENCES

AS RECKLESS SUSPECTS MAY BE CHARGED FOR ALTERNATIVE

EVIDENCE DRIVING, CARELESS DRIVING OR SPEEDING IF THERE IS SUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT SUCH CHARGES.

MONTHS

OF MR LEUNG SAID THERE WERE A TOTAL

14 PROSECUTIONS AGAINST OF ILLEGAL ROAD RACING LAST YEAR. THE FIGURE FOR THE FIRST 10 THIS YEAR WAS 20.

ILLEGAL

CASUALTIES CAUSED BY ON THE NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS AND RACING, HE SAID THE POLICE WERE UNABLE TO ASCERTAIN THEIR NUMBERS.

RACES TOOK PLACE BECAUSE THE

LATE AT

THE NIGHT,

PERSONS THE PARTICIPANTS AND THEY INVOLVED IN ACCIDENTS WERE IN MOST CASES WOULD NOT ADMIT TO TAKING PART IN ILLEGAL CAR RACING, MR LEUNG ADDED.

STRICT RULES ON DISPOSAL OF OLD MILITARY ITEMS

COVER THE DISPOSAL OF OBSOLETE STRICT REGULATIONS EXIST TO

THEMSELVES MILITARY EQUIPMENT, BOTH WITHIN THE MILITARY ORGANISATIONS AND AS LAID DOWN BY THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT,

BARNES, INFORMED WRITTEN REPLY

THE SECRETARY FOR SECURITY, THE HON GEOFFREY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF THIS TODAY (WEDNESDAY) IN A TO A QUESTION FROM THE HON POON CHI-FAI.

MR BARNES WAS REFERRING TO

INCIDENT AN WASHED ASHORE

ON NOVEMBER 9 WHEN WERE

BY DISCOVERED

A

MILITARY ITEMS WHICH HAD BEEN MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC ON A BEACH IN SOUTH-EASTERN LAMMA ISLAND.

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