WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1993
NOT ALL CAPO REPORTS WERE AGREED BY THE PCC. MISS WONG SAID IN 1992, PCC HAD RAISED 318 QUERIES INVOLVING 231 CASES.
THESE QUERIES WERE DIRECTED AGAINST THE RESULTS OF THE INVESTIGATION, THE THOROUGHNESS OF INVESTIGATIONS, AMBIGUOUS POINTS, THE PROPRIETY OF POLICE PROCEDURES AND THE EXERCISE OF CONSTABULARY POWERS.
WHILST MOST
OF THESE QUERIES WERE ANSWERED BY CAPO SATISFACTION, 31 CASES HAD THEIR CLASSIFICATIONS ALTERED OR AS A RESULT OF PCC INTERVENTION.
TO PCC'S REVERSED
IN ADDITION, 26 SUGGESTIONS ON POLICE PROCEDURES AND PRACTICES WERE ACCEPTED BY CAPO.
BY THE VERY NATURE OF THEIR WORK, POLICE OFFICERS WERE FREQUENTLY IN A SITUATION WHICH RENDERED THEM LIABLE TO COMPLAINTS BECAUSE OF THE INCONVENIENCE CAUSED TO CITIZENS.
ONE WAY OF REDUCING COMPLAINTS, ACCORDING TO MISS WONG, WAS THROUGH THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF BOTH POLICE OFFICERS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
SHE UNDERSTOOD THAT A COMPLAINTS PREVENTION COMMITTEE HAS BEEN SET UP BY THE POLICE IN NOVEMBER 1992 AND HOPED THE QUESTION OF TRAINING OF FRONT LINE POLICE OFFICERS WOULD BE SERIOUSLY ADDRESSED.
DURING THE PAST YEAR, THE COMMITTEE ENDORSED THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE INFORMAL RESOLUTION SCHEME.
THIS ALLOWS THE RESPECTIVE POLICE FORMATIONS TO HANDLE MINOR COMPLAINTS BY INFORMAL RESOLUTION WITHOUT SUBJECTING THEM то FULL INVESTIGATION.
THIS SCHEME ENABLES BOTH CAPO AND THE PCC TO CONCENTRATE ON THE MORE SERIOUS COMPLAINTS. A TOTAL OF 363 MINOR CASES WERE INFORMALLY RESOLVED IN 1992 UNDER THE SCHEME.
MISS WONG SAID THE PCC ALSO ATTACHED
IMPORTANCE TO PUBLIC
CONFIDENCE ON THE COMPLAINTS SYSTEM.
WHILST THE PCC WAS OF THE VIEW THAT THE PRESENT SYSTEM SHOULD BE MAINTAINED, A NUMBER OF IMPROVEMENTS WERE NEEDED. THESE INCLUDED:
TO MAKE THE PCC A STATUTORY BODY.
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TO EMPOWER THE PCC TO INTERVIEW WITNESSES.
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ΤΟ APPOINT SOME NON-POLICE OFFICERS FOR INVESTIGATION OF SERIOUS CASES AND IN DUE COURSE TO REPLACE THE HEAD OF CAPO BY A NON-POLICE OFFICER.
TO INCLUDE NORE COMPLAINANTS.
DETAILED EXPLANATION IN THE REPLIES TO
TO INTRODUCE
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