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SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1990

NEW POLICE REGIONAL HQ IN NT OPENS

*

REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS NOT

KONG

POLICE, HONG KONG

THE OPENING OF THE NEW TERRITORIES

HONG HISTORY OF ONLY DENOTES A NEW MILESTONE IN THE BUT ALSO SYMBOLISES ANOTHER GREAT ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ROYAL POLICE FORCE.

WHEN

REGIONAL

THIS WAS STATED BY COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, MR LI KWAN-HA,

OF

NEW THE CEREMONY HE OFFICIATED

THE AT HEADQUARTERS IN TAI PO TODAY (SATURDAY).

OPENING

HAD GROWN POINTING OUT THAT POPULATION IN THE NEW TERRITORIES FROM 600,000 SOME 20 YEARS AGO TO THE PRESENT 2.2 MILLION, MR LI

ATTENTION TO CLOSE

THE THAT POLICE HAD BEEN PAYING DEVELOPMENT, WITH A VIEW TO MAXIMISING THE USE OF DEPLOYMENT OF MANPOWER SO AS TO PROVIDE THE

BEST

SAID

SPEED OF RESOURCES AND POLICE SERVICE

ITS

THE

TO

THE RESIDENTS.

"THE FORCE WILL CONTINUE TO MAKE EVERY ENDEAVOUR TO UPHOLD AND ORDER", SAID MR LI.

LAW

EXERT AN "TO ACHIEVE THIS END, APART FROM THE POLICE WHO WILL

PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE TO HAVE THE ALL-OUT EFFORT, IT IS EQUALLY OF

LARGE", SAID SUPPORT AND CO-OPERATION FROM MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC AT THE POLICE CHIEF.

OF

NOTING THAT THE OPENING OF THE NEW COMPLEX WOULD BRING MOST

ONE ROOF, THE COMMISSIONER SAID THE UNITS WITHIN THE REGION UNDER

IN BENEFICIAL

ENHANCING MUTUAL THAT THE NEW BUILDING WAS MOST COMMUNICATION AND WORK EFFICIENCY AMONG THEM.

THE NEW COMPLEX IS COMMUNICATIONS WITH OTHER DISTRICTS,

OF THE NEW TERRITORIES,

FOR PROVIDES

CONVENIENT

SITUATED AT TAI PO AND IN THE HEART

BASILY ACCESSIBLE

AND

BUILT AT

OF A COST

$125

COVERS AN AREA OF 7,700 SQUARE MODERN FACILITIES TO MEET CONTEMPORARY NEEDS.

METRES,

MILLION, AND

THE 11-STOREY IS EQUIPPED

WITH

BUILDING MANY

APART FROM NORMAL

HAS AN INDOOR

OFFICE

RANGE AND FIRING FACILITIES FOR THE FORCE CATERING AND COMMAND AND CONTROL CENTRES.

INCLUDE

THE ACCOMMODATION,

NEW COMPLEX A MINI-FIRING

TRAINING RANGE, PERSONNEL, FORENSIC LABORATORY

FITNESS

ROOMS,

LECTURE

ROOMS,

BOTH

FACILITIES OTHER ASSEMBLY HALLS, CLUB PREMISES FOR THE CIVILIANS, RESTAURANTS FOR SENIOR AND JUNIOR POLICE OFFICERS, AS WELL AS BARRACK ACCOMMODATION.

COMMANDER, ALSO OFFICIATING AT THE CEREMONY WERE REGIONAL

REGIONAL SECRETARY, TERRITORIES, MR RICHARD SMALLSHAW;

OF HEUNG CHAIRMAN

KUK, TERRITORIES, MR ADOLF HSU AND WONG-FAT.

NEW

NEW

YEE

MR

LAU

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