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MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1990

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GOVERNOR VISITS MARINE POLICE DIVISION

THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, TODAY (MONDAY) VISITED THE MARINE POLICE REGION'S BUSY DIVISIONS AND ITS ESTABLISHMENT IN ABERDEEN.

ONE OF TRAINING

WAN, WAS

SIR DAVID, VISITING THE SOUTH DIVISION AT SHUM BRIEFED BY THE DIVISIONAL COMMANDER, MR NICK SWAIN. HE WAS TOLD THAT THE DIVISION SPENT A GREAT DEAL OF ITS TIME AND

ESCORTING INTERCEPTING, PROCESSING, DOCUMENTING AND

SOME THE TOTAL INFLUX OF OVER 34,000 VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE.

EFFORT IN OF 24,300

MR SWAIN EXPLAINED THE WORK OF THE DIVISION IN MANNING AND RUNNING VBP CAMPS AT TAI A CHAU AND SHEK KWU CHAU, AND IN PROVIDING LOGISTIC SUPPORT FOR THE CAMPS RUN BY THE CORRECTIONAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT AT HET LING CHAU AND CHI MA WAN. SIR DAVID COMMENDED THE POLICE, THE OTHER DISCIPLINED AND AUXILIARY SERVICES AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS INVOLVED FOR THE ENORMOUS EFFORTS THEY HAD MADE IN COPING WITH THE INFLUX OF VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE THAT HONG KONG HAD FACED IN 1989.

OF THE GOVERNOR WAS ALSO BRIEFED ON OTHER AREAS

WORK OF THE DIVISION INCLUDING THE APPREHENSION OF VESSELS ENGAGED IN SMUGGLING FROM HONG KONG TO CHINA, ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, CASUALTY EVACUATION, SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATIONS AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF MARITIME LEGISLATION.

"SEA

IN

WHICH

HORSE" THE WEST LAMMA RADAR WAS TO INTERCEPT" DATA CRAFT OPERATING IN

LAUNCH SIR DAVID LATER BOARDED THE POLICE SERVES AS A FLOATING DIVISIONAL COMMAND CENTRE. CHANNEL, HE SAW A DEMONSTRATION IN WHICH COMPUTER-ASSISTED

AND SPEED USED TO TRACK A TARGET, WITH "COURSE BEING QUICKLY RELAYED TO SMALL BOAT UNIT PURSUIT THE AREA.

EARLIER, SIR DAVID, ACCOMPANIED BY THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE,

MR MR LI KWAN-HA AND THE REGIONAL COMMANDER MARINE,

JOHN MACDONALD, VISITED THE MARINE POLICE TRAINING SCHOOL.

SEARCH

AND WOULD

SIR DAVID WAS TOLD THAT ABOUT 170 COURSES ARE HELD ANNUALLY

ENGINEERING, COVERING NAVIGATION AND SEAMANSHIP,

RADAR, THAN 2,000 OFFICERS RESCUE AND COMMUNICATIONS; AND THAT MORE HAVE ATTENDED COURSES OFFERED BY THE SCHOOL BY MARCH 1990.

SIR DAVID CONCLUDED HIS AFTERNOON'S VISIT WITH OF THE 15 LAUNCHES ON BOARD A MARK [IT DAMEN, ONE WHICH FORM THE BACKBONE OF THE MARINE POLICE FLEET.

A RETURN TRIP OF THIS CLASS

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