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The agreement of the current Chairman of the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) will expire on June 30, 1997. The Deputy Chairman's agreement expires on December 31, 1996 and it has been agreed that it be extended for one year.

In considering whether the agreements of the Chairman and Deputy Chairman, and for that matter, those of all executive directors should be extended, the Administration will have regard to the need for continuity of senior staff at a particular point in time, as well as the suitability and the wish of the persons concerned to continue their service with the SFC,

Open recruitment procedures have been, and will continue to be used when appropriate. In the case of the current Deputy Chairman, a decision was taken to extend his agreement by one year.

Cases of police officers framing innocent persons

Following is a question by the Hon Zachary Wong Wai-yin and a written reply by the Secretary for Security, Mr Peter Lai, in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):

Question:

Will the Government inform this Council:

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of the number of complaints received by the Police in each of the past three years concerning police officers framing innocent persons, together with a breakdown of such cases by category relating to false accusations of "possession of dangerous drugs", "obstructing a police officer in the due execution of his duty", "robbery", "wounding" and "assaulting a police officer", as well as the number of complaints alleging police officers taking fingerprints by force to fabricate evidence for the purpose of bringing about a conviction; the number of complaints found to be substantiated in each category and the punishment imposed on the police officers concerned: