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FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1989

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CSD WILL CONTINUE COMBINED APPROACH IN CORRECTIONAL WORK

BASED ON

CONTINUE TO THE CORRECTIONAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT WILL

PURBUK

ITS PRIMARY ROLE IN CORRECTIONS

THE PROVEN SUCCESSES OF COMBINING A SCIENTIFIC APPROACH WITH FIRM

AND HUMANE DISCIPLINE TREATMENT OF OFFENDERS, THE COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICES, CHAN WA-SHEK, SAID TODAY (FRIDAY).

SPEAKING AT A CORRECTIONAL STAFF PARADE AT THE

SAID THAT IN

MR

STAFF TRAINING THE OPERATION OF TAKING A CLOSE

INSTITUTE IN STANLEY, MR CHAN ALSO CORRECTIONAL SERVICES INDUSTRIES, THE DEPARTMENT WAS LOOK AT POSSIBILITIES OUTSIDE THE PUBLIC SECTOR MARKET IN THE HOPE OF BRINGING ABOUT FUNDAMENTAL INCREASES IN PRODUCTIVITY.

THE COMMISSIONER POINTED

OUT THAT

AS A NECESSARY PART OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, CORRECTIONAL WORK WAS A JOB WHICH MUST BE DONE.

"OVER THE YEARS, OUR PENAL INSTITUTIONS HAVE

TO CONTINUED ALL KINDS. THIS ADMIT AND TREAT SUBSTANTIAL NUMBERS OF OFFENDERS OF IS SO DESPITE

ACCEPTED PRINCIPLE OF USING CUSTODIAL SENTENCES AS A LAST RESORT, HE SAID.

THE WIDELY

IMMIGRANTS MR CHAN SAID THE ARRIVAL OF BOAT PEOPLE AND ILLEGAL IN HONG KONG HAD ALSO ADDED

DIMENSIONS AND COMPLEXITIES TO THE DEPARTMENT'S WORK.

TURNING TO THE

NEW

WORK OF

THE CORRECTIONAL

MR OFFICER,

CHAN MAN IN THE STREET, THE SAME REGARD AS

REMARKED THAT THIS WORK WAS LITTLE KNOWN TO THE AND SELDOM WAS THE CORRECTIONAL OFFICER HELD IN OTHER PUBLIC SERVANTS WHOSE SERVICES COULD BE SEEN AND THEREFORE READILY APPRECIATED BY THE PUBLIC.

THAT THEY

MORR

HAD TO A PERIOD OF STRAIN AND

THE COMMISSIONER

REALISE THAT VOLATILITY,

WERE THEY

TOLD THE STAFF ON PARADE

WORKING THROUGH

A

LAW IN ALL

STAFF ALWAYS MAINTAIN "IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT THAT OUR HIGH DEGREE OF VIGILANCE AND BE MINDFUL TO ACT WITHIN THE CIRCUMSTANCES," MR CHAN SAID.

THE AT THE CEREMONY COLONIAL PRISON SERVICE MEDAL EXEMPLARY SERVICE.

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то

PRESENTED COMMISSIONER

STAFF 22 VETERAN

CLASPS WHO HAD

то

THE GIVEN

THE PARADE ALSO MARKED THE PASSING-OUT OF 53 RECRUIT OFFICERS WHO HAD COMPLETED SIX MONTHS OF BASIC TRAINING AT TRAINING INSTITUTE.

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ASSISTANT STAFF