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FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1989

RISE IN OVERALL CRIME IN SECOND QUARTER

OVERALL CRIMES REPORTED TO POLICE THIS YEAR SHOWED AN INCREASE OF B.2 THREE-MONTH PERIOD.

IN THE SECOND QUARTER OF PER CENT OVER THE PREVIOUS

THE SECOND

SECOND QUARTER TODAY RELEASING THE CRIME STATISTICS FOR

SAID (FRIDAY). MR WONG TSAN-KWONG. THE POLICE DEPUTY DIRECTOR. CRIME. A TOTAL OF 20.198 CRIMES WERE RECORDED.

4.271

CASES DURING

THE

QUARTER.

CRIME TOTALLED VIOLENT REPRESENTING 21.2 PER CENT OF ALL CRIMES REPORTED, AND A 12.6 PER CENT RISE OVER THE PRVIOUS QUARTER. MR WONG SAID.

AN

INDECENT

MR WONG SAID THE UPSURGE IN VIOLENT CRIME WAS MAINLY DUE TO INCREASE IN THE OFFENCES OF WOUNDING AND SERIOUS ASSAULT AND ASSAULT.

COMPARED WITH LAST QUARTER. INDECENT ASSAULT INCREASED BY 58.5 PER CENT WHILE WOUNDING AND SERIOUS WAS UP 24.6 PER CENT, MR WONG SAID.

ON FEMALE CASES ASSAULTS CASES

PER CENT ON ROBBERIES. MR WONG SAID WEAPONS WERE USED IN 46.5

OF ROBBERIES' VICTIMS OF THESE OFFENCES. RESULTING IN 24.8 PER CENT SUSTAINING INJURIES.

26 OF

OF ALL THE 1.450 ROBBERIES COMMITTED IN THE SECOND QUARTER. INVOLVED GOLDSMITH OR WATCH SHOPS. A TOTAL OF $21.8 MILLION WORTH

THE CORRESPONDING NUMBERS OF GOLD. JEWELERY AND WATCHES WERE STOLEN. SUCH ROBBERIES FOR THE PRECEDING QUARTER AND THE SAME QUARTER YEAR WERE NINE AND 14 RESPECTIVELY.

LAST

GENUINE FIREARMS 1989. OF WHICH SIX

THERE WERE 59 ROBBERIES INVOLVING THE USE OF OR PISTOL LIKE OBJECTS IN THE SECOND QUARTER OF CASES WERE CONFIRMED AS GENUINE FIREARMS.

THERE WERE 58 SUCH CASES IN THE PRECEDING

QUARTER AND 54

IN

THE SAME QUARTER OF LAST YEAR.

WONG POINTED OUT THAT IN 24 QUARTER. THE BURGLARS

WITH REGARD TO BURGLARIES, MR PERCENT OF ALL CASES OCCURRING IN THE SECOND DID NOT HAVE TO BREAK INTO THE PREMISES.

COMPARED WITH

PREMISES

BURGLARIES 23.5 PER CENT. AND

COMMERCIAL CENT. HOWEVER,

OFFICE

QUARTER. DOMESTIC LAST INCREASED BY 14.8 PER CENT. SHOP BURGLARIES BY FACTORY BURGLARIES BY 11.8 PER BURGLARIES FELL BY 17.6 PER CENT.

DAY IN WOUNDINGS AND SERIOUS ASSAULTS AVERAGED 20.8 CASES PER

CENT OVER THE PREVIOUS THE SECOND QUARTER. AN INCREASE OF 24.5 PER

PERIOD OF QUARTER AND ALSO 12 PER CENT HIGHER THAN THE CORRESPONDING LAST YEAR.

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