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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1990

"I AM PLEASED ΤΟ SAY THAT

THE FULLEST WE HAVE RECEIVED

CHINA COOPERATION FROM POLICE AUTHORITIES IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF

WEAPONS INTO HONG IN OUR EFFORTS TO STOP THE ILLEGAL IMPORTATION OF KONG.

TO

LIAISE

CLOSELY CRIMINALS

"WE SHALL CONTINUE DETERMINED TO DEAL RESOLUTELY WITH HONG KONG AND USE THEM ON OUR STREETS."

-

WITH THEM

ARE WE WHO IMPORT GUNS INTO

TO DETER DISTRICT IS DEPLOYING THEM

THAT VISIBLE PRESENCE OF MR SHEPPARD'S VIEW ENDORSING UNIFORMED OFFICERS IN THE STREET WAS THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY CRIME, DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS, MR EDDIE HUI, SAID EVERY NOW PUTTING OUT AS MANY BEAT OFFICERS AS POSSIBLE AND IN AREAS PRONE TO CRIME.

"UNLIKE

14

WHEN

YEARS GONE BY,

THE BEAT

MUCH PC WAS VERY IN

AND PARKING THE STREET HAWKERS, OBSTRUCTIONS CONCERNED WITH

AND HE TICKETS, SUCH MATTERS ARE NOW AT THE BOTTOM OF HIS PRIORITIES

HE SAID. "WHEN POUNDING THE BEAT HE IS DIRECTED VERY MUCH TO CRIME,

OTHER UNITS INCLUDING THE IS NOT ALONE AND HE IS SUPPORTED BY MANY

UNIFORM BRANCH TASK EMERGENCY UNITS, POLICE TACTICAL UNIT, TRAFFIC, FORCES, AND CID ACTION SQUADS,

OF

A

VERY OF

WE CAN RESPOND

FLEXIBLE OPERATION

ACCOUNT THERE ARE PLENTY "WHEN ALL THESE ARE TAKEN INTO RESOURCES ON THE GROUND TO RESPOND TO CRIME REPORTS.

JUST IN

ARE A FEW MINUTES. WE TO A 999 CALL ORGANISATION AND HAVE THE ABILITY TO SHIFT THE EMPHASIS QUICKLY IN THE LIGHT OF CHANGING CIRCUMSTANCES.'

M

POINTING OUT THAT THE CRIME DETECTION RATE HAD REMAINED

HUI SAID THIS DURING THE PAST THREE YEARS AT AROUND 46 PER CENT, MR WAS A CREDITABLE PERFORMANCE FOR ANY POLICE FORCE.

STEADY

MR HUI THE

REFERRING TO THE RISE IN THE USE OF FIREARMS IN CRIME, SAID THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE HAD PUT THIS CATEGORY OF CRIME AT VERY TOP OF HIS ENFORCEMENT PRIORITIES.

BEEN TAKEN

ΤΟ A NUMBER OF MEASURES HAD

LOCALLY

COMBAT THE FIREARMS. THE FORCE HAD ENHANCED INCREASE IN AVAILABILITY OF

ITS ALL ARRESTED PERSONS CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS AND ENSURED THAT

FIREARMS. WERE PROPERLY DEBRIEFED IN ORDER TO ASCERTAIN THE SOURCE OF

BEEN BROUGHT INTO HONG KONG MANY FIREARMS WERE KNOWN TO HAVE

BY MOUNTED A NUMBER ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND BY SMUGGLERS, SO POLICE HAD

AS LAU FAU SHAN WHERE OF OPERATIONS IN AREAS SUCH

FIREARMS WERE SUSPECTED TO HAVE PASSED THROUGH FROM CHINA.

"WE HAVE HAD SOME SUCCESS. WE HAVE SEIZED 52 GENUINE FIREARMS SO FAR THIS YEAR. LAST YEAR, WE SEIZED A TOTAL OF 93 BUT THIS FIGURE IS MISLEADINGLY HIGH BECAUSE 32 OF THEM WERE FOUND IN ONE AT THE AIRPORT AND WERE POSSIBLY NOT INTENDED FOR USE IN HE ADDED.

CONSIGNMENT

HONG

KONG,"

POLICE

TURNING TO TRIAD-RELATED CRIME, MR HUI SAID EVERY MONTH CONDUCTED AN AVERAGE OF 3,450 RAIDS AND ARRESTED ABOUT 800 PERSONS.

/HE EMPHASISED