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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1989

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STUDY ON IMPROVING LIFT CAR SECURITY

THE HOUSING

HAS DEPARTMENT

BUREAU,

DISCUSSIONS

WITH THE CONTRACTORS ' WAY OF IMPROVING

INITIATED

THE ENGINEERING POLICE

PREVENTION CRIME ASSOCIATION AND LIFT CONTRACTORS TO STUDY THE BEST THE SECURITY IN LIFT CARS IN PUBLIC HOUSING ESTATES.

THE FROM THE

CHENG IN HON MICHAEL REPLYING TO A QUESTION

THE SECRETARY FOR DISTRICT LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY),

BEST ADMINISTRATION, THE HON DONALD LIAO, SAID THE STUDY INCLUDED HOW

LESS SUSCEPTIBLE TO MAKE TRAP DOORS AND THE ALARM SYSTEM IN THE LIFT TO INTERFERENCE.

IN LIFT

A FIVE-MEMBER GANG "ON JANUARY 31, 1989, THE POLICE ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH 42 ROBBERIES AND TWO RAPE CASES COMMITTED CARS OVER THE LAST 13 MONTHS.

BELIEVED TO THE TRAP DOOR

"ONE OF THE MEMBERS, A FORMER LIFT TECHNICIAN, IS BE THE PERSON WITH THE SPECIAL SKILL REQUIRED TO OPEN

MR LIAO SAID. WITHOUT ACTIVATING THE ALARM,

INTRODUCTION

WITH THE ARREST OF THE GANG AND THE ARISING FROM THE STUDY, IT WAS HOPED THAT SECURITY PUBLIC ROUSING ESTATES WOULD BE IMPROVED, HE ADDED.

1N LIFT

OF MEASURES CARS

IN

ARRESTS MADE IN MAJORITY OF CASES

*

HON

THE POLICE MADE AN ARREST IN THE MAJORITY OF CASES OF

FOR SECURITY, THE INTIMIDATION, THE ACTING SECRETARY ASPREY, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

REPORTED ALISTAIR

AND WHERE THE PERSON WILL BE PROTECTION RISK,

TO A QUESTION FROM

MADE, BE "WHERE AN ARREST CANNOT

BE

AT REPORTING THE INCIDENT APPEARS TO OFFERED BY THE POLICE," MR ASPREY SAID IN REPLY THE HON HUI YIN-FAT.

HE SAID 502 CASES OF CRIMINAL INTIMIDATION LAST YEAR, 527 IN 1987 AND 500 IN 1986.

AVAILA

HAD BEEN REPORTED

SUBSEQUENT

INTIMIDATION TO THE

NO DETAILS WERE AVAILABLE OF THE NUMBER OF CASES OF ASSAULTS ON PERSONS WHO HAD PREVIOUSLY REPORTED POLICE.

"THE NUMBER OF SUCH CASES, HOWEVER,

IS BELIEVED TO BE VERY

SMALL,

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HE SAID.

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/MR HUI

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