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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1990

"THE POLICE WILL ALSO REVIEW REPORTING ΤΟ SIMPLIFYING THEM, AND THUS REDUCING THE CRIME," HE SAID.

PROCEDURES WITH A VIEW

TAKEN TO

TIME

REPORT

TRIAD SOCIETY WERE BASED ON A

ON CALLS FOR THE RECONSTITUTION OF THE FORMER BUREAU, MR ASPREY SAID HE BELIEVED THAT THESE MISUNDERSTANDING.

"THERE HAS BEEN NO REDUCTION IN THE TRIADS, INDEED THE POLICE HAVE IN RECENT YEARS ADDITIONAL RESOURCES AT TERRITORIAL, REGIONAL AND DISTRICT LEVELS

ACTIVITIES

OF

THE

TRIADS

AND

EFFORT POLICE

AGAINST DEVOTED CONSIDERABLE

COMBAT SYNDICATES.

THE

OTHER

ΤΟ ORGANISED CRIME

"THESE

POLICE DEPLOYED EFFICIENTLY

TO COUNTER THE INCREASING COMPLEXITY SOPHISTICATION OF PRESENT-DAY ORGANISED CRIME,

RESOURCES ARE NOW BETTER

AND ORGANISED

MORE

AND

HE SAID.

MR ASPREY POINTED OUT THAT THE RECENT INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF HAD CRIMES INVOLVING THE USE OF FIREARMS, MANY IMPORTED FROM CHINA, HIGHLIGHTED THE IMPORTANCE OF CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION AGAINST CRIME.

"WE SHARE A COMMON INTEREST WITH GUANGDONG IN ILLEGAL IMPORT OF FIREARMS INTO HONG KONG.

PREVENTING THE

DEPARTMENT EXCISE

MAINTAIN

"THE POLICE AND THE CUSTOMS AND CLOSE LIAISON AND GOOD COOPERATION WITH THE AUTHORITIES IN CHINA.

WEAPONS

"MANY SUCCESSFUL SEIZURES OF ILLEGALLY IMPORTED BEEN MADE BY THE POLICE, AMOUNTING TO ALMOST 250 WEAPONS IN THE THREE YEARS, HE SAID.

MR ASPREY SAID ONE OF THE MOST EFFECTIVE MEANS CRIME REMAINS AN ADEQUATE POLICE PRESENCE ON THE STREETS.

HAVE PAST

OF PREVENTING

THE DIFFICULTIES OF RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION IN A TIGHT LABOUR ADDRESSED MARKET WHICH THE POLICE FACED EARLIER THIS YEAR WERE BEING

CONDITIONS OF SERVICE, ALREADY THROUGH A REVIEW OF SALARIES AND COMPLETED FOR THE JUNIOR POLICE OFFICERS.

WERE BEING DEPLOYMENT OTHER MEASURES TO IMPROVE

WHERE INCLUDING

CIVILIANISATION OF CERTAIN POSSIBLE POLICE FORCE, AND INCREASED USE OF THE AUXILIARY POLICE, SAID.

POSTS

PURSUED, IN THE MR ASPREY

MOST IN THE

"SOME 800 AUXILIARY POLICEMEN ARE NOW ON DUTY EVERY DAY,

ROLE IMPORTANT THEY PLAY A VERY THEM ON BEAT PATROL. POLICING OF HONG KONG," HE ADDED.

OF

THE FIGHT AGAINST CRIME, SAID MR ASPREY, MUST ALSO BE THROUGH THE PENAL AND REHABILITATION PROGRAMMES.

PURSUED

FROM RECENT CRIME

"ONE OF THE MORE ENCOURAGING CONCLUSIONS STATISTICS IS THE GRADUAL DECREASE IN CRIME BY JUVENILES.

/"THE EXTENSIVE

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