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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1990

MR

CHAN SAID DEPARTMENT HAD GROWN

CURRENT

7,050,

AND

HE JOINED THE SERVICE ESTABLISHMENT OF 502

PENAL ESTABLISHMENTS

SINCE

AN FROM FROM FOUR

IN 1951,

THE

ΤΟ STAFF

THE

TO 19 PENAL THE

INSTITUTIONS. THIS IS IN ADDITION TO SIX BOAT PEOPLE CAMPS DURING SAME PERIOD.

TO DATE, HE SAID, CSD PROVIDES VARIOUS PROFESSIONAL SERVICES BY DIETITIANS, EDUCATION SPECIALISTS, NURSES, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGISTS,

SOCIAL WORKERS AND PRODUCTION

EXPERIENCED CUSTODIAL

OFFICERS.

ENGINEERS,

MR CHAN SAID THERE WERE A NUMBER OF RECENT INNOVATIONS CORRECTIONAL PROGRAMMES FOR INMATES.

IN THE

EDUCATION "IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS, WE HAVE COMPLETELY REVAMPED

YOUNG OFFENDERS, AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING FOR

INTRODUCED VOCATIONAL APPROACH IN THE TRAINING FOR ADULT PRISONERS, ADOPTED AN ECOLOGICAL

RELEASE SUPERVISION OF EX-OFFENDERS IN THE COMMUNITY, INTRODUCED

THE WORK RELEASE SCHEMES, UNDER SUPERVISION AND SUICIDE PREVENTION MEASURES, ON INDUSTRIAL SAFETY AND, TOGETHER THE SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT, ESTABLISHED THE YOUNG TO SERVE SOME OF THE LAW COURTS.

IMPROVED ON THE WITH OFFENDERS PANEL

"THESE EFFORTS HAVE RESULTED IN MARKEDLY BETTER IN ALL THE TREATMENT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMES," HE ADDED.

ΤΟ

THE IMPROVE

SUCCESS RATES

DEPARTMENT'S ABILITY ΤΟ

DOG

TO REACT

MASS SAID THE CSD'S TACTICAL AS A UNIT,

DISTURBANCE OR A NATURAL DISASTER, MR CHAN

WAS ESTABLISHED, AS WAS THE RESPONSE SQUADRON NECESSARY BOOST TO SECURITY.

HAD HE SAID THE DEPARTMENT

ALSO INTRODUCED MORE SCIENTIFIC IN CORRECTION TECHNIQUES

SERVICES,

THE SUCH AS

MORE REFINED VIOLENT OFFENDERS INCLUDING THOSE CATEGORISATION OF

SERVING LIFE IMPRISONMENT, WHICH LED TO THE ESTABLISHING OF BEHAVIOURAL UNITS IN TWO MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISONS.

ADJUSTMENT

BUT MR CHAN SAID HE WOULD LIKE

SEE MANY MORE SCIENTIFIC TECHNIQUES BEING INTRODUCED INTO CORRECTIONAL PROGRAMMES.

TO

ESTABLISHMENT BUT FOR

OF AN

INSTITUTE

OF

"AND I STILL ADVOCATE THE CRIMINOLOGY, NOT FOR ACADEMIC PURSUE, TASK TO FIGHT CRIME, HE ADDED.

TAKING THE SPECIFIC

SERVICES TO $211 $254 MILLION FOR

CORRECTIONAL

MR CHAN ALSO REVEALED THAT THE INDUSTRIES HAS INCREASED ITS OUTPUT FROM $33 MILLION IN 1980

то A FORECAST OUTPUT OF MILLION LAST YEAR AND 1990/91.

MR CHAN SAID HE WAS ON THE PROBLEMS FACING THE DEPARTMENT,

SERVICE HAPPY TO SEE THAT THE

HAD SUCCESSFULLY CONTAINED SERIOUS COPE WITH THE OVERCROWDING OF PENAL INSTITUTIONS AND HAD MANAGED TO INFLUX OF VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE.

/HE ALSO