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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1992

THAT CONCLUDED

THE SPEED EXISTING 70 KM ΤΟ

HAD

MR LEUNG SAID A RECENT REVIEW LIMIT ON TUEN MUN ROAD MIGHT BE RELAXED FROM THE 80 KM PER HOUR AT CERTAIN SECTIONS.

"DETAILED PROPOSALS WILL SHORTLY. PUT FOR ADVICE," HE SAID.

ΤΟ

THE

DISTRICT

BOARDS

IMPROVEMENT IN POLICE RECRUITMENT

寨

THE NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS AND THE INTAKE FIGURES FOR JUNIOR

LAST POLICE OFFICERS

YEAR HAD INCREASED COMPARED WITH THE 1990

FIGURES.

ALSO

DECREASED,

THE WASTAGE LAST YEAR HAD SECRETARY FOR SECURITY, MR ALISTAIR ASPREY.

ΤΟ ACCORDING

THE

IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON VINCENT CHENG THIS HOI-CHUEN, MR ASPREY SAID HE HOPES THAT THIS TREND WILL CONTINUE YEAR.

9,271 LAST YEAR, A TOTAL OF

APPLICATIONS FOR JUNIOR POLICE IN OFFICER POSTS WERE RECEIVED. THIS COMPARED WITH 5,109 APPLICATIONS 1990.

AS A RESULT, THE SECRETARY NOTED, RECRUITMENT HAD ALSO

IMPROVED.

SOME 1,246 OFFICERS WERE RECRUITED LAST YEAR, 45% MORE THAN

IN

1990.

THE INTAKE EACH MONTH IN LAST YEAR CONSISTENTLY EXCEEDED THE INTAKE FOR THE CORRESPONDING MONTH IN 1990.

WASTAGE HAD DECREASED, MR ASPREY SAID.

THE NUMBER OF JUNIOR POLICE OFFICERS LEAVING THE FORCE LAST

OFFICERS EACH YEAR WAS 1,299, REPRESENTING AN AVERAGE OF 108 ABOUT 20% LESS THAN IN 1990.

MONTH,

"THE PAST FEW MONTHS IN PARTICULAR HAVE SEEN A FULL INTAKE

INTO THE POLICE TRAINING JUNIOR POLICE OFFICERS

SCHOOL, RECRUITMENT HAS SUBSTANTIALLY EXCEEDED WASTAGE," HE SAID.

OF

AND

NEW

/THE FOLLOWING