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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1994

TRANSCRIPT OF MEDIA SESSION BY CHIEF SECRETARY

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CHIEF DETACHMENT

FOLLOWING IS THE TRANSCRIPT OF THE MEDIA SESSION BY THE SECRETARY, MRS ANSON CHAN, AFTER VISITING THE FIELD PATROL OF THE ROYAL HONG KONG POLICE FORCE TODAY (THURSDAY):

CS:

I PARTICULARLY

THINK,

VERY, OWN THEIR

IT IS

VERY

LIVES,

I'VE WHAT

SEEN FOR ON A WHOLE, 1 AM VERY IMPRESSED

THE IN

POLICE TACTICAL UNIT. I'VE NEVER BEEN THERE OUR BEFORE. I THINK IT IS VERY REASSURING TO KNOW THAT OUR LIVES AND PROPERTY ARE IN SUCH EXCELLENT AND SAFE HANDS. SO, PEOPLE ACTUALLY DEMONSTRATING HOW THEY MIGHT DEFUSE TERRORIST SITUATIONS, SCALING WARS, DOING SOME VERY DIFFICULT FEATS, AND AS I SAID, I THINK

REASSURING TO KNOW THAT WE HAVE THIS GROUP OF EXTREMELY

POLICEMEN SKILLED

WHO WILL, AT GREATER RISK OF PROTECT THE LIFE AND PROPERTY HERE IN HONG KONG. I WAS ALSO TOLD BY

THAT IN

ABILITIES TERMS OF THEIR

AND THE OFFICER-IN-CHARGE SKILLS, THEY COMPARE WITH THE BEST ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. SO, THAT

REASSURING. EXTREMELY

THE AND, OF COURSE, HERE THE WORK OF

ILLEGAL

IS IMMIGRANTS

A VERY ESSENTIAL AND A VERY NECESSARY PART OF POLICE IT'S WORK.

NOT VERY GLAMOROUS WORK. IT'S VERY

BUT HARD WORK NEVERTHELESS, THE POLICE DO AN EXCELLENT JOB AND BY PREVENTING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, THEY DO, OF COURSE, HELP TO ENSURE THAT HONG KONG CONTINUE TO ENJOY A GOOD STANDARD OF SERVICE WITHOUT THE ALWAYS KNOWING THAT THERE ARE LARGE NUMBERS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

CAN OF

COMING ACROSS.

THEIR

IS

PEOPLE THREAT

EMSD IMPROVES AIR QUALITY IN GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS

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(EMSD) HAS

THE ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT TAKEN THE INITIATIVES TO BE ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN IMPROVING AIR QUALITY

BUILDINGS, IN GOVERNMENT

THE DEPARTMENT'S

MR DIRECTOR,

HUGH

PHILLIPSON, SAID TODAY (THURSDAY).

ADDRESSING

THE

THE URBAN "SYMPOSIUM ON HEALTHY BUILDINGS IN ENVIRONMENT" AT A KOWLOON HOTEL THIS MORNING, MR PHILLIPSON NOTED THAT BACK IN 1985, EMSD TOOK THE LEAD IN DEALING WITH LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE BY SETTING UP THE LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE COMMITTEE.

HE

BODY,

DISEASE LEGIONNAIRES'

IN

SAID THE COMMITTEE, WHICH WAS AN INTER-DEPARTMENTAL INITIALLY FOCUSED

OF THE PREVENTION HOSPITALS AND GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS.

THE

ON

"AFTER THIS IT BROADENED ITS SCOPE, AND ITS LATEST WORK IS

OF A PRODUCTION

CODE OF

FOR PRACTICE

LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE," HE ADDED.

THE

PREVENTION

ON

OF

THE CODE

OF

PUBLIC, EXPLAINS

ASPECTS,

PRACTICE, WHICH WILL SOON BE THE BACKGROUND TO THE PROBLEM

DETAILED GUIDELINES ON AND PROVIDES DISEASE IN COOLING TOWERS, CONDENSATE PANS, CENTRALISED SYSTEMS AND OTHER WATER SYSTEMS.

AVAILABLE

AND ΤΟ HOW

ΤΟ THE

THE MEDICAL PREVENT THE FRESH WATER

/ON THE