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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1991

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LATEST POLICE COMPLAINTS COMMITTEE REPORT PUBLISHED

A NUMBER OF OF THE COMPLAINTS

THE

POLICE COMPLAINTS COMMITTEE (PCC) HAS MADE PROPOSALS TO

THE OVERALL EFFECTIVENESS IMPROVE SYSTEM AND MINIMISE PUBLIC COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE POLICE.

WAS REPORT FOR 1990 ANNUAL

TABLED IN THE THE COMMITTER'S LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY) BY DR THE HON DANIEL TSE, IN HIS CAPACITY AS PCC'S CHAIRMAN,

THE

COMMITTEE WAS SET UP IN EARLY 1986 TO TAKE OVER PREVIOUSLY UNDERTAKEN BY THE FORMER UMELCO POLICE GROUP, IT THE HANDLING BY THE POLICE OF COMPLAINTS BY THE PUBLIC.

THE WORK OVERSEES

TODAY'S REPORT WAS THE FIFTH ONE COMPILED SINCE ITS ESTABLISHMENT.

BY THE

COMMITTEE

ENDORSED

THE

DURING THE YEAR 1990, THE COMMITTEE HAD REVIEWED AND 3,620 COMPLAINT CASES, EMBRACING 5,159 ALLEGATIONS, PROCESSED BY COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE POLICE OFFICE (CAPO) OF THE ROYAL POLICE FORCE.

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WITH THE SUPPORT OF AN INDEPENDENT SECRETARIAT, DR TSE OUT THAT THE COMMITTEE HAD BEEN ABLE TO VET IN DETAIL EACH AND COMPLAINT CASE.

POINTED KVERY

COMPLAINT

THE REPORT STATED THAT THE LARGEST SINGLE SUBJECT OF WAS ABOUT ASSAULT (38 PER CENT OF THE TOTAL NUMBER OF ALLEGATIONS).

ABUSIVE THIS WAS FOLLOWED BY OVERBEARING, IMPOLITE CONDUCT OR

NEGLECT OF DUTY OR LANGUAGE OF POLICE OFFICERS (22.4 PER CENT),

AUTHORITY (10.9 IMPROPER ACTION (17,1 PER CENT), UNNECESSARY USE OF PER CENT) AND FABRICATION OF EVIDENCE (7.1 PER CENT).

INTO

PROCEEDINGS

GIVEN

THE REPORT STATED

RESULT OF INVESTIGATION THAT AS A COMPLAINTS MONITORED BY THE COMMITTEE, APPROPRIATE LEGAL AND DISCIPLINARY OR INTERNAL ACTIONS HAD BEEN TAKEN AND ADVICE AGAINST 537 POLICE OFFICERS DURING 1990.

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IN REVIEWING THE COMPLAINT CASES, THE COMMITTEE HAD PROPOSED NUMBER OF REVIEWS OF, AND CHANGES TO, POLICE PRACTICES, PROCEDURES AND EFFECTIVENESS INSTRUCTIONS WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING UPON THE OVERALL OF THE COMPLAINT SYSTEM AND ASSISTING THE COMMISSIONER OF MINIMISING PUBLIC COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE POLICE.

SOME OF THE STUDIES AND CHANGES INITIATED

POLICE IN

BY THE COMMITTEE

INCLUDED:

* THE

APPROPRIATENESS OF DEMANDING IDENTITY CARDS IN ENFORCEMENT CASES;

TRAFFIC

*

PERSONS ON POLICE BAIL SHOULD BE INFORMED IN WRITING OF DATE AND TIME TO RECLAIM THEIR BAIL MONIES;

THE

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