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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1989

EMPLOYEES OF

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MR HUI HAD REFERRED TO PRESS REPORTS THAT TWO MAGAZINE WHO WERE CRIMINALLY WOUNDED HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN INTIMIDATED.

HAD GIVEN

TO RISE

THE PROTECTION BUT THE OFFER HAD

MR ASPREY SAID THAT IN THE CASE THAT QUESTION THE POLICE HAD TWICE OFFERED BEEN DECLINED.

WITH OFFERED

ACCORDANCE "THE PROTECTION GIVEN BY THE POLICE VARIES IN

CASE. THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF EACH

PROTECTION IS INDIVIDUAL WHERE THE CIRCUMSTANCES WARRANT IT.

"CERTAINLY, ANY ASSAULT ON, OR INTERFERENCE WITH, A PERSON HAD MADE A REPORT OF INTIMIDATION WOULD LEAD TO AN IMMEDIATE OFFER INDIVIDUAL PROTECTION," HE ADDED.

WHO

OF

MR ASPREY POINTED OUT THAT PROTECTION MIGHT INCLUDE SPECIAL PROPERTIES OR ATTENTION BEING PAID BY POLICE PATROLS TO THE VICTIMS' PREMISES, OR PROVISION OF A POLICE ESCORT.

WHERE THE RISK TO A PERSON WAS

ΤΟ ENSURE HOUSE MIGHT BE PROVIDED SUSPECTS TO THE VICTIM OR HIS FAMILY.

ASSESSED AS SERIOUS, A SAFE THAT NO APPROACH WAS MADE BY

"IN CASES WHERE A REPORT HAS LED TO AN ARREST, A ONE-WAY MIGHT BE USED IN IDENTIFICATION PARADES SO THAT THE SUSPECT COULD SEE THE VICTIM.

GLASS NOT

ON

APPROPRIATE, OPPOSE BAIL FOR A "AND THE POLICE WILL, WHERE SUSPECT, OR APPLY TO THE COURT FOR AN ORDER THAT THE SUSPECT WHILE BAIL KEEP AWAY FROM THE ALLEGED VICTIM," MR ASPREY ADDED.

CONTINUED VIGILANCE AGAINST PORNOGRAPHIC VIDEO TAPES

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THE

GOVERNMENT WILL MAINTAIN FOR SOME TIME ITS PRESENT OF VIGILANCE AGAINST PORNOGRAPHIC VIDEO TAPES AND LASER DISCS.

LEVELS

THE

THE SECRETARY FOR ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES AND INFORMATION, HON PETER TSAO, SAID THIS IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY) IN REPLY TO A QUESTION FROM THE HON DAVID CHEUNG.

MR TSAO SAID SINCE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE OBSCENE ARTICLES TRIBUNAL IN SEPTEMBER 1987, 956 VIDEO TAPES AND LASER DISCS HAD BEEN CLASSIFIED AS OBSCENE AND 11 AS INDECENT.

ELEVEN OUT OF THE TOTAL OF 978 VIDEO TAPES AND LASER DISCS BEEN CLASSIFIED AS NEITHER OBSCENE NOR INDECENT.

HAD

/"I ASSURE