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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1991

PRESENCE

POLICE

POINTING OUT THAT THERE WAS ALREADY A STRONGER POLICE ON THE

SIR DAVID SAID THIS HAD MEANT STREETS,

MOVING SOME OFFICERS FROM SUPPORT TO OPERATIONAL DUTIES; REDEPLOYING THE POLICE TACTICAL UNIT; AND MAKING GREATER USE OF THE AUXILIARY POLICE.

"RELIEVING

THE POLICE FROM MANAGING THE HIGH ISLAND

CENTRE HAS ALSO HELPED," HE ADDED.

DETENTION

HE SAID THERE WERE NOW 200 MORE POLICE OFFICERS ON THE STREETÓ

OF THE CITY EVERY DAY THAN THERE WERE THREE MONTHS AGO.

UNITS

"IN ADDITION, WE HAVE FOUR REGIONAL POLICE EMERGENCY WHICH

AVAILABLE MORE POWERFUL AND SOPHISTICATED ARMS AND PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT.

HAVE

"THESE UNITS ARE THERE TO RESPOND TO '999' CALLS AND, IN EMERGENCIES, TO MOVE QUICKLY TO SUPPORT OFFICERS ON PATROL, SIR DAVID

SAID.

OVER THE PAST 12 MONTHS, THE POLICE HAD CARRIED OUT A SERIES OF SUCCESSFUL, LARGE-SCALE OPERATIONS DIRECTED AT PREVENTING SERIOUS

CRIME.

THE

"THESE OPERATIONS ARE MADE POSSIBLE BY INTELLIGENCE REPORTS ON

OF FIREARMS AND THE IDENTITY OF CRIMINALS SOURCES

GANGS.

AND

CRIMINAL

"GATHERING INFORMATION HAS BEEN HELPED BY INCREASED co- OPERATION WITH THE CHINESE AUTHORITIES.

"OUR POLICE ARE DEVELOPING A GOOD WORKING RELATIONSHIP WITH THEIR COUNTERPARTS ACROSS THE BORDER, NOT ONLY IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CROSS-BORDER CRIME, BUT ALSO IN THE RAPID EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION, THE GOVERNOR SAID.

ON SMUGGLING, PARTICULARLY OF CARS AND ELECTRICAL GOODS INTO CHINA, SIR DAVID SAID IT HAD BEEN A PARTICULAR CAUSE FOR CONCERN.

"BUT THE ANTI-SMUGGLING TASK FORCE WHICH WAS SET UP IN FEBRUARY THIS YEAR HAS HAD A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT.

"IN FEBRUARY OF THIS YEAR, THERE WERE 167 THEFTS OF LUXURY CARS; IN SEPTEMBER, ONLY 27.

TO

GOODS TRADE: DETECTION

"GANGS WHICH HAD BEEN SMUGGLING THOUSANDS OF ELECTRICAL CHINA EVERY DAY FIND IT MUCH MORE DIFFICULT TO PLY THEIR THE LAW NOW MAKES THOSE WHO HELP THEM HIGHLY VULNERABLE TO AND PROSECUTION," HE SAID.

SHOWED

BE

ARBA

COULD

IMPROVED

THE GOVERNOR POINTED OUT THAT HONG KONG'S SUCCESS IN THIS THAT EVEN APPARENTLY INTRACTABLE LAW-AND-ORDER PROBLEMS OVERCOME, GIVEN DETERMINATION, CO-OPERATION WITH CHINA, CO-ORDINATION OF THE TERRITORY'S OWN SECURITY EFFORTS AND TIGHT LEGISLATIVE CONTROLS.

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