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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1989

"WE LOOK TO THE DISTRICT FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEES FOR CONTINUING

HE ADDED.

SUPPORT.

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REFERRING TO THE TRIAD RENUNCIATION SCHEME, SIR DAVID NOTED THAT THE RESPONSE TO THE SCHEME HAD BEEN ENCOURAGING.

"SINCE THE INCEPTION OF THE TRIAD RENUNCIATION TRIBUNAL IN DECEMBER 1988, SOME 2.600 ENQUIRIES AND 640 APPLICATIONS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED.

"UP TO THE END OF SEPTEMBER 1989, A TOTAL OF 97 GENUINE TRIAD MEMBERS HAVE SUCCESSFULLY RENOUNCED THEIR TRIAD MEMBERSHIP.'

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SIR DAVID ADDED THAT HAVING REGARD TO THE OPERATION OF THE TRIBUNAL AND THE CONTINUED INFLOW OF APPLICATIONS IN THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE, THE GOVERNMENT WAS NOW CONSIDERING THE EXTENSION OF THE SCHEME FOR A FURTHER PERIOD OF TIME.

"THE PROCEDURES OF THE TRIAD RENUNCIATION TRIBUNAL WILL BE STREAMLINED. PUBLICITY WILL ALSO BE RENEWED TO ATTRACT FURTHER POTENTIAL TRIAD RENOUNCERS. SIR DAVID SAID.

PROMOTE

BETTER

TODAY'S RECEPTION WAS ORGANISED TO COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEE AND ITS COUNTERPARTS IN THE DISTRICTS.

IT WAS ATTENDED BY MORE THAN 350 FCC MEMBERS AND DISTRICT FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEE MEMBERS.

THIRD QUARTER CRIME STATISTICS RELEASED

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OVERALL CRIMES REPORTED TO POLICE IN THE THIRD QUARTER of YEAR SHOWED AN INCREASE OF 3.8 PER CENT OVER THE PRECEDING QUARTER.

FOR THE THIRD QUARTER TODAY RELEASING THE CRIME STATISTICS (FRIDAY), DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF CRIME, MR WONG TSAN-KWONG, SAID A OF 21.188 CRIME CASES WERE RECORDED.

TOTAL

PERIOD UNDER REVIEW, REPORTED, AND A 12.5 PER

VIOLENT CRIME TOTALLED 4.856 DURING THE REPRESENTING 21.1 PER CENT OF ALL CRIMES CENT RISE OVER THE PREVIOUS QUARTER.

THE RISE

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VIOLENT

CRIME

WAS

то AN MAINLY ATTRIBUTABLE WOUNDING AND SERIOUS ASSAULT,

INCREASE IN THE OFFENCES OF ROBBERY. ASSAULT ON POLICE AND RAPE. MR WONG SAID.

WOUNDING AND

8.9 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY

COMPARED WITH LAST QUARTER, THE RATE OF ROBBERY, SERIOUS ASSAULT WAS UP 13.6 PER CENT AND WHILE THAT OF RAPE CASES INCREASED BY 3.3 PER CENT.

/ON ROBBERIES