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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1990

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MOST WEAPONS WERE MADE FROM METALLIC AND OTHER HARD TAKEN FROM THE FABRIC OF THE BUILDINGS OR FROM FURNITURE.

WAS

MATERIALS

MR BARNES EMPHASISED THAT IT

OBVIOUSLY IMPOSSIBLE ELIMINATE ALL BUCH HARD MATERIALS FROM THE CENTRES,

ΤΟ

"EFFORTS ARE BEING MADE TO MAKE SUCH MATERIALS LESS ACCESSIBLE, REPLACING FOR EXAMPLE, BY PHASING OUT THE PRESENT DESIGN OF BUNKS AND THEM WITH NEW BEDS WHICH HAVE FEWER METALLIC COMPONENTS," HE SAID.

WEAPONS AND REGULAR PATROLS OF MR BARNES SAID SEARCHES FOR

THOSE AND

WERE WHO

FOUND ΤΟ HAVE WOULD CONTINUE, THE CENTRES

CENTRE COMMITTED AN OFFENCE WOULD BE DISCIPLINED UNDER THE DETENTION

ORDINANCE OR RULES OR CHARGED WITH OFFENCES UNDER THE PUBLIC ORDER THE SUMMARY OFFENCES ORDINANCE.

DEAL WITH TROUBLEMAKERS

WAS

CONSIDERING

THB

IN ORDER TO REINFORCE ITS ABILITY TO IN THE

THE GOVERNMENT CENTRES, DETENTION ESTABLISHMENT OF A SEPARATE SEGREGATION CAMP.

"THIS

SHOULD

IMPROVEMENT BRING ABOUT A GENERAL WITHIN THE DETENTION CENTRES," MR BARNES SAID.

IN

SECURITY

53 VIETNAMESE BOAT DURING 1989, HE ALSO POINTED OUT THAT PEOPLE WERE CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF OFFENSIVE WEAPONS UNDER SECTION WHILE 17 WERE CHARGED WITH 17 OF THE SUMMARY OFFENCES ORDINANCE,

33 POSSESSION OF AN OFFENSIVE WEAPON IN A PUBLIC PLACE UNDER SECTION OF THE PUBLIC ORDER ORDINANCE.

SENTENCES IMPOSED RANGED FROM 14 DAYS TO NINE MONTHS.

"THE GOVERNMENT'S POLICY IS TO BRING CHARGES AGAINST WHENEVER THERE IS SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT A SAID.

OFFENDERS

PROSECUTION,' HE

FI

MR BARNES SAID INVESTIGATIONS HAD BEEN CONDUCTED ON THE MOTIVES WEAPONS IN THE DETENTION AND METHODS OF THOSE PEOPLE PRODUCING CENTRES.

SELF-

THAT IN THE

"THE MOST COMMON REASON GIVEN BY THOSE VBP INVOLVED WAS DEFENCE. BASED ON INFORMATION FROM DIFFERENT SOURCES WE BELIEVE THE PRODUCTION OF WEAPONS IS RELATED TO FACTIONAL RIVALRIES DETENTION CENTRES, MR BARNES EXPLAINED.

TH

STAFF

REGARDING

IN MANAGING

DUTIES,

REPATRIATION PREPARED TO DEAL WITH SERIOUS DISTURBANCES IN THE DETENTION

AVAILABLE TO ENSURE THE SAFEGUARDS

IN CARRYING AND THE CENTRES

SAID CONTINGENCY MR BARNES

SAFETY OF THE OUT MANDATORY PLANS HAD BEEN

CENTRES.

"THE SAFETY OF THE CAMP STAFF IS A MAJOR PLANS, HE EMPHASISED.

IN ELEMENT

THESE

MR

BARNES SAID THE CAMP MANAGEMENT TEAMS THEMSELVES EXPECTED TO DEAL WITH SERIOUS DISORDER.

WERE NOT

/THEY WERE