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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1994

THE POLICE AND OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES ARE GIVEN SPECIAL INVESTIGATIVE POWERS AND THE COURTS ARE NOW EMPOWERED TO CONFISCATE PROCEEDS OF ORGANISED AND SERIOUS CRIMES, SHE SAID.

MRS CHAN SAID THE POLICE WERE IN THE PROCESS OF SETTING UP A CENTRAL WITNESS PROTECTION UNIT ΤΟ IMPLEMENT WITNESS PROTECTION MEASURES AND A FULL WITNESS PROTECTION PROGRAMME.

NOTING THAT EXAMINATION OF THE SECURITY AND GUARDING SERVICES BILL BY THE LEGCO BILLS COMMITTEE WAS ALREADY AT A VERY ADVANCED STAGE, MRS CHAN EXPECTED THAT WITH THE PASSAGE OF THIS BILL. THE GOVERNMENT WOULD BE BETTER ABLE TO REGULATE THE SOPHISTICATED AND FAST-DEVELOPING SECURITY INDUSTRY.

MRS CHAN PAID TRIBUTE TO THE DISTRICT FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEE MEMBERS WHO HAD ORGANISED NUMEROUS ACTIVITIES TO GATHER PUBLIC SUPPORT IN THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST CRIME.

FIGHT CRIME CONFERENCE STIMULATING AND INFORMATIVE

DISCUSSIONS

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AND REPORTS PRESENTED AT THE 1994 FIGHT CRIME CONFERENCE TODAY (SATURDAY} HAVE BEEN MOST STIMULATING AND INFORMATIVE, ACCORDING TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE CONFERENCE, MRS MIRIAM

LAU.

THE BIENNIAL GATHERING, THE SIXTH OF ITS KIND, WAS AIMED то PROMOTE LAW AND ORDER AND TO FOSTER THE COMMUNITY'S INTEREST IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CRIME.

IT SERVED AS A FORUM FOR ALL MEMBERS R TEEK FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEE (FCC) AND THE 19 DISTRICT FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEFS TO EXCHANGE VIEWS ON WAYS TO COMBAT CRIME.

MRS LAU SAID DURING THE SESSION, THE PARTICIPANTS HAD FOCUSED THEIR DISCUSSIONS ON THE FINDINGS OF THE VARIOUS GROUP DISCUSSIONS WHICH HAD TAKEN PLACE PRIOR TO THE CONFERENCE ON A RANGE OF LAW AND ORDER RELATED SUBJECTS.

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THE SUBJECTS DISCUSSED INCLUDED GREATER PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR ENFORCEMENT; SOCIAL CAUSES OF JUVENILE CRIMES; PURLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR CORRUPTION; MULTI-AGENCY APPROACH TO TACKLE CRIMP: WITNESS REASSURANCE; AND ORGANISED AND SERIOUS CRIMES.

MRS LAU SAID THE VIEWS AND RECOMMENDATIONS PUT FORWARD WOULD BE FURTHER CONSIDERED BY THE FCC AND THE GOVERNMENT AND THAT FOLLOW-UP ACTION WOULD BE TAKEN AS APPROPRIATE.

/THE CONFERENCE,