XN000022-1991-02-28 — Page 21

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1991

J

-

20

A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN SAID CROSSBOWS' WERE POWERFUL WEAPONS JN VARIOUS CAPABLE OF CAUSING INJURY OR DEATH AND THEY HAD BEEN USED

DERANGED PERSONS COUNTRIES BY CRIMINALS AND

IN RECENT YRARS WITH SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES, INCLUDING A MURDER IN HONG KONG.

"MODERN CROSSBOWS ARE ACCURATE AND LETHAL EVEN RANGES OF SOME HUNDREDS OF METRES.

WHEN

FIRED

AT

"IN SOME CASES, THE BOLTS (THE PROJECTILES) ARE DESIGNED TO TURN ON IMPACT PIERCE ARMOUR-PLATING, SHATTER CONCRETE OR TWIST AND TO MAXIMISE A WOUND, HE SAID.

I

WEIGHT

CAUSE

THE NEW REGULATIONS WILL APPLY TO CROSSBOWS WITH A DRAW

THAN OF MORE

SIX KILOGRAMS, WHICH IS POWERFUL

ΤΟ ENOUGH VISIBLE DAMAGE TO HUMAN SKIN, AS WELL AS TO THE BOLTS.

WORK OF POLICE CRIMINAL RECORDS BUREAU EXPLAINED

"PAPER CHASE"

OF

RECORDS CRIMINAL

A TERRITORY-WIDE

LEAVES POLICE HEADQUARTERS EVERY DAY AS POLICE FORCE MOTORCYCLISTS DISTRIBUTE VITAL CONFIDENTIAL REPORTS TO COURTS.

THE COMPLICATED WITH MORE THAN 200 ARRESTS IN HONG KONG DAILY

CRIMINAL RECORDS BUREAU IS DEDICATED ΤΟ AND DETAILED WORK OF THE KEEPING AND UPDATING ALL RECORDS RELATING TO CASES OLD AND NEW.

THE RUREAU IS HONG

IT HOLDS 513,000 CONVICTIONS. MILLION INDIVIDUAL CASE FILES.

KONG'S SOLE

RECORDS OF

OF CRIMINAL REPOSITORY

OFFENCES AND NEARLY TWO

STAY WITH YET ALTHOUGH THE STIGMA OF A CRIMINAL OFFENCE MIGHT

OR SHE DIES, THE MAJORITY OF A CONVICTED PERSON UNTIL THE DAY HE

ONCE PROPLE WHO RECEIVE CRIMINAL RECORDS ONLY FIND THEMSELVES ACCUSED IN THEIR LIVES.

PEOPLE IN THE

SIXTY PER CENT OF

CRB FILES HAVE ONLY ONE CONVICTION. AROUND 30 PER CENT HAVE TWO AND THE REST THREE OR MORE.

MOST PERSONS HAVENG MULTIPLE CONVICTIONS, SOME HAVE DOZENS, ARE INVOLVED WITH DANGEROUS DRUGS OFFENCES.

TRAFFIC

CONVICTIONS

ARE

КЕРГ SEPARATELY AT

TRAFFIC

HEADQUARTERS.

.

OF ALL. INVESTIGATIONS INTO CRB STAFF OFFICER, CRIME,

SOLE "WE HAVE 12 PEOPLE WHOSE

PURPOSE IN RECORDS. THEY FILM MORE THAN THREE

FILES "THE MAJORITY OF OUR CASK RECORDABLE OFFENCES ARE NOW ON MICRO-FILM, MR DAVE MADOC-JONES, SAID. LIFE IS TO MICROFILM CRIMINAL MILLION PAORS A YEAR.

/BUT THE