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COMPLAINTS FULLY INVESTIGATED ON FALSE ALLEGATION

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MADE

PERSON IS

BACH CASE INVOLVING A COMPLAINT THAT A POLICE OFFICER HAS

OFFENCE CRIMINAL A

A FALSE ALLEGATION OF THOROUGHLY INVESTIGATED.

A AGAINST

SECRETARY

FOR SECURITY, MR

ALISTAIR THE

THIS WAS STATED BY THE ASPREY, TODAY (WEDNESDAY) IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY REV HON FUNG CHI-WOOD IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

INDEED MADE

"IF THERE IS EVIDENCE TO SHOW THAT AN OFFICER HAS SUCH A FALSE ALLEGATION, HE IS LIABLE TO CRIMINAL CHARGES," HE SAID.

IN THE PAST THREE YEARS, 107 COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE FABRICATION OF EVIDENCE WERE INVESTIGATED.

POLICE OF

NONE OF THESE COMPLAINTS REMAINED UNDER INVESTIGATION, HE SAID.

HAD BEEN

THOUGH SUBSTANTIATED,

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CONSULTATION CONTINUES ON PLAN TO ABOLISH REPEATER ALLOWANCE

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AND

AND WAS CONTINUING TO CONSULT THE GOVERNMENT HAD CONSULTED EDUCATIONAL BODIES ON A PLAN TO ABOLISH THE REPEATER ALLOWANCE IN THE PLACES ALLOCATION SYSTEM FOR SCHOOLS, THE SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION

COUNCIL LEGISLATIVE MANPOWER, (WEDNESDAY).

MR JOHN CHAN,

TOLD THE

TODAY

THE HON STEPHEN NG, MR PLAN AND THE FINAL

IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY CHAN SAID A DECISION ON THE INTRODUCTION OF THE DETAILS OF THE MEASURE WAS AWAITING THE OUTCOME OF CONSULTATION.

INCREASE THE NUMBER HE SAID THE RATIONALE OF THE PLAN WAS TO

THEREBY REDUCING THE OF PUPILS ALLOCATED TO A CLASS FROM 38 TO 40, NUMBER OF CLASSES (AND THE COSTS INVOLVED) TO BE PROVIDED THROUGH PUBLICLY FUNDED SCHOOL SYSTEM,

ACCOMMODATE

REPEATERS

THE

WOULD HAVE TO ΤΟ WISHING SCHOOLS EXERCISE THE OPTION OF INCREASING CLASS SIZE UP TO 42, HE SAID.

THE SECRETARY SAID THE Effect of THE PLAN WOULD BE TO CLASS SIZE "MARGINALLY".

INCREASE

HE EXPLAINED

THAT

ALTHOUGH PUPILS PER CLASS HAD BEEN AVAILABLE NEVER BEEN TAKEN UP IN FULL.

THE REPEATER

OF ALLOWANCE

TWO ΤΟ SCHOOLS FOR YEARS, IT HAD

OF THE

IN 1991, ONLY 29 PER CENT, 49 PER CENT AND 54 PER CENT ALLOWANCE WAS TAKEN UP BY REPEATERS AT PRIMARY ONE, SECONDARY ONE SECONDARY FOUR RESPECTIVELY.

AND

/MOREOVER, THE

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