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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1990

POLICE SHOULD TREAT 'CLIENTS' WITH CARE, UNDERSTANDING, FOREBEARANCE

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POLICE SPEND A LARGE

DEALING WITH PEOPLE, BE THEY GENERAL MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.

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PROPORTION OF THEIR TIME AND EFFORT CRIMINALS, SUSPECTS, VICTIMS OR JUST

IT IS IMPORTANT, THEREFORE, THAT THEY ARE HANDLED AS "CLIENTS" WITH CARE, UNDERSTANDING AND FOREBEARANCE.

THIS WAS THE MESSAGE THAT THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, MR LI KWAN-HA, HAD FOR INSPECTORS AND CONSTABLES WHO WERE PASSING OUT AT THE POLICE TRAINING SCHOOL IN WONG CHUK HANG TODAY (SATURDAY).

MR LI POINTED OUT TO THE GRADUATES THAT PEOPLE DID NOT APPROACH THE POLICE WHEN THE GOING WAS SMOOTH, BUT ONLY WHEN THEY HAD A PROBLEM, A GRIEVANCE OR WERE FACING ADVERSITY.

EVEN A CRIMINAL WAS IMPORTANT TO AND LOVED BY SOMEONE, HE SAID.

LIKEWISE, IF WE WANTED OURSELVES AND OUR LOVED ONES TO BE TREATED FAIRLY, WE SHOULD TREAT EACH AND EVERYONE IN THE COMMUNITY SIMILARLY.

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"IF WE SUCCEED IN THIS APPROACH, NOT ONLY WILL WE BE GOOD POLICE OFFICERS, BUT WE WILL ALSO BE MUCH HAPPIER HUMAN BEINGS, MR LI SAID.

THE COMMISSIONER REMINDED THE OFFICERS THAT HAVING GRADUATED THEY WOULD CARRY OUT THE FULL DUTIES AS POLICE OFFICERS AND THAT THE COUMMUNITY WOULD LOOK UPON THEM FOR HELP.

THEY WOULD BE PRESENTED WITH PROBLEMS FOR SOLUTION AND INITIALLY THEY MIGHT FEEL THAT THE NATURE AND VOLUME OF WORK WAS UNMANAGEABLE AND THEY WOULD OFTEN FEEL FRUSTRATED.

"IF YOU BEAR IN MIND AT ALL TIMES THAT THE PRIMARY FUNCTION OF POLICE OFFICER IS TO SERVE, YOU WILL SUCCEED,

+1 HE ADDED.

MR LI ALSO SAID THAT IN ORDER TO PROGRESS FURTHER IN THEIR CAREERS THE LEARNING PROCESS MUST BE KEPT ALIVE AND EXPANDED. THERE WAS ALSO A NEED TO GAIN PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE IN ADDITION TO KNOWLEDGE.

"DO NOT BE AFRAID TO ASK QUESTIONS WHEN YOU ARE NOT SURE; DO NOT BE AFRAID TO MAKE MISTAKES PROVIDED THAT YOU DO NOT MAKE THE SAME ONE TWICE," HE CONCLUDED.

ON PARADE TODAY WERE 29 INSPECTORS AND 244 POLICE CONSTABLES WHO HAVE JUST COMPLETED THEIR BASIC TRAINING.

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