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WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1990

AND INSTRUCTIONS

IN REVIEWING THE COMPLAINT CASES, THE COMMITTEE HAD PROPOSED

POLICE TO,

PRACTICES, PROCEDURES NUMBER OF REVIEWS OF, AND CHANGES

UPON WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING

THE OVERALL

·EFFECTIVENESS OF THE COMPLAINTS SYSTEM AND ASSISTING THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE IN MINIMISING PUBLIC COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE POLICE. SOME THE STUDIES AND CHANGES INITIATED BY THE COMMITTEE INCLUDED:

(A) A REVIEW OF THE USE OF POLICE DOGS IN HIGH RISE

HOUSING ESTATES;

(B) AN EXAMINATION OF THE EXISTING

PROVISION OF REFRESHMENT TO PRISONERS;

OF

PATROL IN

PRACTICE

RELATING то THE

COURT APPEARANCE

POLICE

GENERAL ORDERS

ON

(C) A REVIEW OF THE PROCEDURES GOVERNING THE

OF A DEFENDANT;

(D) A

REIVEW OF THE

RELEVANT

RECORDING THE TIME OF AN ARREST;

IT

ADVICE

(E) THE ISSUE OF INSTRUCTIONS TO BRIEF POLICE OFFICERS THAT WOULD NOT BE APPROPRIATE FOR THE POLICE TO GIVE CONCERNING THE RIGHT OR LIABILITIES OF PARTIES INVOLVED A CIVIL DISPUTE:

(F) THE ISSUE OF A FORCE-WIDE

OFFICERS THAT NO

DESTROYED; AND

(G)

THE

NOTIFICATION то REMIND POLICE ONCE TAKEN SHOULD EVER BK

STATEMENTS

THE BEFORE

ON OFFICERS POLICE ISSUE OF A

TO REMINDER

OF INFORMATION SWORN IMPORTANCE OF THE ACCURACY MAGISTRATES IN RELATION TO SEARCH AND ARREST WARRANTS.

INFORMAL RESOLUTION

TO SCHEMB DR TSE ALSO REPORTED THAT THE

ON A TRIAL PROCESS CERTAIN MINOR COMPLAINTS WAS INTRODUCED IN 1989

IS SCHEME

DESIGNED ΤΟ RESOLVE QUICKLY, BASIS FOR SIX MONTHS. THE

AS ARISING

A RESULT OF A THROUGH PERSONAL DISCUSSION, COMPLAINTS

OR OR

A POLICY,

GENUINE MISUNDERSTANDING IN PROCEDURE FAULT

THE POLICE OFFICER CONCERNED. CIRCUMSTANCES OUTSIDE THE CONTROL OF THE SCHEME, IF SUCCESSFUL, WILL ENABLE MORE RESOURCES TO BE DEVOTED TRIAL PERIOD, TO MORE SERIOUS COMPLAINTS. FOLLOWING A REVIEW OF THE THE COMMITTEE HAS ENSORSED THE EXTENSION MINOR MODIFICATIONS FOR A FURTHER PERIOD OF SIX MONTHS.

DURING THE

A YEAR,

BEEN

OF THE SCHEME WITH SOMB

THE POLICE OF THE WORK ON PAMPHLET

TO PUBLISHED

ASSIST THE PUBLIC IN COMPLAINTS COMMITTEE HAS

THE INDEPENDENT BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE COMPLAINTS MACHINERY AND ROLE OF THE COMMITTEE.

AN

INDEPENDENT MONITORING THE POLICE COMPLAINTS COMMITTEE IS

COMMITTEE COMPRISED A GROUP APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR. IN 1989, THE

ALL DRAWN FROM OMRLCO CHAIRMAN AND TWO

PEACE, WITH OF THE

VICE-CHAIRMEN,

AND RIGHT THE ATTORNEY BRING THE

MEMBERS, BEING ACTIVE JUSTICES GENERAL AND THE COMMISSIONER FOR ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINTS TWO EX-OFFICIO REPRESENTATIVES ON THE COMMITTEE.

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