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THE FIRST SIX MONTHS SAW A MARKED DECREASE OF 60% IN ROBBERIES OF GOLDSMITHS/WATCH SHOPS, WITH ONLY 12 CASES RECORDED, AS AGAINST IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1992.

BANK ROBBERIES DECREASED SLIGHTLY BY 4.8% WITH 60 CASES COMPARED WITH 63 IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1992.

HOMICIDE

HOMICIDES WERE DOWN 28.8% AT 42 COMPARED TO 59 DURING THE SAME PERIOD IN 1992. (THE FIGURES FOR 1992 INCLUDED 24 VIETNAMESE KILLED IN SHEK KONG).

WOUNDING AND SERIOUS ASSAULT

THESE WERE UP WITH 2,914 CASES AS COMPARED TO 2,667 UP 9.3% IN THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR.

INDECENT ASSAULT ON FEMALE AND RAPE

HALF OF

523 IN THE

1992.

THERE WERE 51 RAPES, THE SAME FIGURE AS IN THE FIRST INDECENT ASSAULTS ON FEMALES WERE 490 AS AGAINST

FIRST HALF OF 1992.

BLACKMAIL

BLACKMAIL CASES WERE 395 COMPARED TO 438 DOWN 9.8%, IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1992.

BURGLARY

6,936 BURGLARIES WERE REPORTED IN THE FIRST HALF UP BY 3.6% COMPARISON WITH THE SAME PERIOD OF 1992.

MOTOR VEHICLE CRIME

IN

CRIMES INVOLVING MISSING MOTOR VEHICLES DROPPED SIGNIFICANTLY TO 2,389, 22.2% OVER THE SIX MONTH PERIOD, AS AGAINST 3,069 IN THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR.

FIGURES IN

MOST AREAS OF SERIOUS CRIME WERE ENCOURAGING, SIGNIFICANTLY DOWN ON THE CORRESPONDING SIX MONTHS OF LAST YEAR.

BE

PART OF THE CREDIT FOR THE DROP IN SERIOUS CRIME CAN ATTRIBUTED TO IMPROVED CROSS BORDER CO-OPERATION AS WELL AS QUALIFIED SUCCESS IN THE PENETRATION AND NEUTRALISATION OF CRIMINAL SYNDICATES.

CONTRIBUTING FACTOR OFFICERS WERE BACK VIETNAMESE MIGRANT

INCREASED POLICE STREET PATROL IS ALSO A TO THE DECLINE. AN ADDITION OF ABOUT 850 POLICE ON CONSTABULARY DUTIES AFTER THE CLOSURE OF THE DETENTION CENTRES, IMPROVED POLICE RECRUITMENT AND WASTAGE SITUATION AND THE RELEASE OF OFFICERS FROM CIVILIAN OFFICE WORK.

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