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MULTIPLE EXTENSION OF BAIL;

POLICE POWERS OF ENTRY INTO PRIVATE PREMISES;

NEED

THE

COMMAND

ΤΟ THE

WITH

REGIONAL VERIFY THE TIME CONTROL CENTRE BEFORE ISSUING FIXED PENALTY TICKETS WHEN THE ELEMENT OF EXACT TIME WAS IN DISPUTE;

PROCEDURES OF NOTIFYING COMPLAINANTS/INFORMANTS OF ASSAULT' CASES ABOUT THE RESULT OF INVESTIGATION; AND

THE LIABILITY OF THE GOVERNMENT IN THE WRONGFUL OF EXHIBITS.

'COMMON

DESTRUCTION

INTRODUCED

THE TRIAL PERIOD OF THE INFORMAL RESOLUTION SCHEME

DISCUSSIONS, CERTAIN MINOR IN 1989 TO

PERSONAL RESOLVE, THROUGH COMPLAINTS WAS EXTENDED FOR SIX MONTHS BY CAPO IN ORDER TO FULLY ITS EFFECTIVENESS.

TEST

THE OUTCOME WOULD BE CLOSELY MONITORED AND EVALUATED

BY THE

COMMITTEE.

CASES

INCREASE OVER THE

THE REPORT ALSO STATED THAT A TOTAL OF 3,437 COMPLAINT WERE REGISTERED BY CAPO IN 1990, A 6.7 PER CENT 3,221 CASES REGISTERED IN 1989.

NEVERTHELESS, DR TSE SAID THE 1990 FIGURE STILL REPRESENTED 11.2 PER CENT DECREASE OVER THE FIGURE OF 3,870 FOR 1987.

AN

AS IN PREVIOUS YEARS, THE MAJORITY OF COMPLAINT CASES (85.3 PER CENT) WERE MADE DIRECT TO THE POLICE FORCE.

FOR

OVER THE HIGHER THE REPORT

THE COMMITTEE'S CONCERN SHOWED INCIDENCE OF ASSAULT CASES RECEIVED IN 1990 (26.4 PER CENT) THAN 1989.

THE COMMITTEE HAD STUDIED THE TREND RELATING TO ALLEGATIONS ASSAULT OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF CAPO.

OF

THE NUMBER OF THE STUDY INDICATED SOME CORRELATION BETWEEN

WITH ALLEGATIONS OF ASSAULT AND THE NUMBER OF CRIME REPORTED TOGETHER CONSEQUENTIAL CRIME ARRESTS.

THE

MATTER

HAD BEEN BROUGHT TO THE

ATTENTION OF FORMATION COMMANDERS OF POLICE DISTRICTS BY CAPO FOR APPROPRIATE ACTION.

DR

THAT

A

ALSO

NUMBER OUT POINTED

SIGNIFICANT TSE ALLEGATIONS OF ASSAULT WERE SUBSEQUENTLY WITHDRAWN OR NOT PURSUED

THE COMPLAINANTS.

IF

THE

ALLEGATIONS

OF

ASSAULT

WHICH

WERE

OF

BY

SUBSEQUENTLY

THE

WERE DISCOUNTED, CLASSIFIED AS 'WITHDRAWN' OR 'NOT PURSUABLE' NUMBER OF ALLEGATIONS REDUCED FROM 1,959 TO 427 IN 1990.

THE REPORT ALSO EMPHASISED THAT THE NUMBER OF PUBLIC COMPLAINTS AND VARIOUS FORMS OF LEGAL AND DISCIPLINARY OR INTERNAL ACTIONS AND ADVICE GIVEN AGAINST POLICE OFFICERS SHOULD BE SEEN IN THE OF THE DIFFICULT FRONT-LINE NATURE OF POLICE WORK.

TAKEN

LIGHT

/THEY SHOULD