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SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1989

CP WARNS YOUNG PEOPLE AGAINST SHOP THEFT

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"SHOP THEFT 1S A CRIME AND MAY HAVE PARTICULARLY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, POLICE, MR RAYMON ANNING.

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SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES ACCORDING TO THE

COMMISSIONER

OF

BY

THE COMMISSIONER MADE THIS REMARK THIS AFTERNOON (SATURDAY)

AT THE WHEN HE GAVE AN ADDRESS

ANTI-SHOP THEFT DAY ORGANIZED POLICE PUBLIC RELATIONS BRANCH AT CITYPLAZA, TAI KOO SHING.

"THE CRIME AFFECTS US ALL BECAUSE THE PASSED ON TO US SHOPKEEPERS ARE UNDERSTANDABLY

TO

-

BY

SO

LOSSES SUSTAINED

THE CONSUMERS. COMBACT THIS CRIME,

HE SAID.

ALL OF YOU, BY PLAYING YOUR PART IN HELPING WILL ALSO BE CONTRIBUTING TO THE FIGHT AGAINST INFLATION,

"IT IS THE EARNEST WISH OF THE POLICE FORCE THAT SHOP THEFT,

A WHICH IS

SERIOUS SOCIAL PROBLEM AS WELL AS A

BE CRIME. CAN PUBLICITY EVENTS SUCH EFFECTIVELY TACKLED THROUGH SCHOOL EDUCATION,

ALL MEMBERS AS TODAY'S, AND WITH THE CO-OPERATION OF SHOPKEEPERS AND OF THE COMMUNITY.

"THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST SHOP THEFT WILL. CONTINUE THROUGH THE

IN HONG YEAR IN DIFFERENT VENUES;

KONG ISLAND, KOWLOON, THE NEW TERRITORIES AND THE LARGER OUTLYING ISLANDS, THE COMMISSIONER ADDED.

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TOGETHER WITH THE COMMISSIONER TO OFFICIATE LEGISLATIVE COUNCILLOR AND WAS THE EXECUTIVE AND CENTRAL COMMITTEE ON YOUTH, MRS ROSANNA TAM.

AT THE CEREMONY CHAIRMAN

OF THE

"THE FACT THAT

DROPPING OF

SHOULD

ALSO SPEAKING DURING THE EVENT, MRS TAM SAID: SHOP THEFT FIGURE IS SHOWING AN ENCOURAGING SIGN IN NO WAY MAKE US COMPLACENT WITH THE SITUATION.

NOVEMBER LAST YEAR, FAVOURABLY WITH

THAT

THAT

WAS MOST JUVENILE

TO QUOTING THE FIGURE THAT FROM JANUARY THERE WERE 5,201 REPORTED CASES WHICH COMPARED OF 6.210 IN THE SAME PERIOD IN 1987, MRS TAM CONTINUED BY SAYING

CENTRAL COMMITTEE AS THE CHAIRMAN OF THE CONCERNED

THE COMPARATIVELY HIGHER OFFENDERS IN SHOP THEFT.

WITH

ON

SHE YOUTH,

OF PROPORTION

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I BELIEVE MOST OF THEM COMMIT THE CRIME ONLY OUT OF GREED,

SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES AND THEY HAVE NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT THE BRING TO THEM.

F+

THE ANTI-SHOP THEFT DAY, A LARGE-SCALE YOUNGSTERS, WOMEN AND SHOPKEEPERS, 1S TASKED CONCERN OF THE PUBLIC, ESPECIALLY THE FORMER THEFT IS NOT A GAME, BUT IS INDEED A CRIME CONSEQUENCES ON THEIR FUTURE, SAID MRS TAM.

THAT

WILL

ACTIVITY AIMING AT

WITH

TWO

GROUPS,

THE SHOP WOULD BEAR SERIOUS

AROUSING

THAT

-

TEF

"ROBOTCOP",

WHICH

WAS, PREVENTION,

FOR

AN ELECTRONIC ANIMATED ROBOTIC SYSTEM WOULD BE TASKED TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ON CRIME THE FIRST TIME, INTRODUCED TO THE PUBLIC IN THE CEREMONY.

ΤΟ

THE

TO JOIN THE DRIVF AGAINST SHOP THEFT, BESIDES JACKIE CHAN,

BOTH FAMED SINGERS, RENOWED MOVIE STAR, JACKIE CHEUNG AND ALEX

PARTS IN ALSO ATTENDED THE HOUR-LONG PROGRAMME AND CONTRIBUTED THEIR SINGING AND DRAMA PLAYING,

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