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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1993

"EX-PRISONERS FALLING UNDER THE SCHEME WILL

то PROVIDE

AND CARE

BE SUPERVISED BY

GUIDANCE ΤΟ

THEM,

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CORRECTIONAL SERVICES AND POLICE OFFICERS, WHO WILL VISIT THE RELEASED PRISONERS REGULARLY

THE

SPOKESMAN SAID.

AT THE

STAGE, INITIAL WILL BE

BY CONSIDERED

PRISONERS SUPERVISION:

ONLY THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES OF

THE

BOARD FOR

POST-RELEASE

* PRISONERS SERVING SENTENCES OF SIX YEARS OR MORE;

SPECIFIC TYPES OFFENCES, SEXUAL

* PRISONERS SENTENCED TO TWO YEARS OR MORE FOR

FOR EXAMPLE, TRIAD-RELATED OF OFFENCE, OFFENCES AND CRIMES OF VIOLENCE.

INCLUDED BECAUSE, GIVEN THE

THESE PRISONERS ARE

OF NATURE THEY MIGHT NEED

THEIR OFFENCES AND THE LENGTH OF THEIR IMPRISONMENT, MORE ATTENTION AND ADVICE TO HELP THEM RE-ADJUST IN THE COMMUNITY,

WOULD NOT ALTER THE ONLY IMPOSE A

THE SPOKESMAN EXPLAINED THAT THE SCHEME LENGTH OF SENTENCE A PRISONER SHOULD SERVE, BUT WOULD PERIOD OF AFTER-CARE SUPERVISION.

"WITH

THE

OFFICERS, IT IS HOPED

SCHEME EX-PRISONERS FROM COMMITTING OFFENCE AGAIN,"

ADVICE AND

THAT

GUIDANCE THE

GIVEN

BY THE WILL HELP HE ADDED.

SUPERVISING DISCOURAGE

THE BILL WILL JANUARY 19.

BE INTRODUCED INTO THE

LEGISLATIVE

COUNCIL ON

OPERATION TO STAMP OUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS * * * * *

A 24-HOUR OPERATION AGAINST ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION JOINTLY MOUNTED DEPARTMENTS THROUGHOUT THE BY THE POLICE, THE LABOUR AND IMMIGRATION TERRITORY HAS RESULTED IN THE ARRESTS OF 145 PERSONS.

THE OPERATION WAS PART OF THE GOVERNMENT'S ONGOING FLUSH OUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS,

EFFORT TO

THE 141 SUSPECTED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARRESTED BY THE POLICE HAD BEEN REFERRED TO THE IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT. THOSE FOUND TO BE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WILL BE REPATRIATED.

THE INVESTIGATORS.

OTHER

FOUR

PERSONS WERE ARRESTED BY IMMIGRATION

A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN REITERATED TODAY (FRIDAY) THAT THERE WAS NO QUESTION OF ANY AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

WILL

"OUR LATEST OPERATION SHOULD DRIVE HOME THE POINT BE NO CHANGE TO THIS POLICY. ANYONE FOOLISH ENOUGH OTHERWISE IS ONLY CHEATING HIMSELF HE SAID.

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THAT THERE TO BELIEVE

THE SPOKESMAN SAID APART FROM CONTINUOUS CHECKS THROUGHOUT TERRITORY, THERE WAS NO LET-UP IN ANTI-ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION EFFORTS THE BORDER.

THE

AT

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