Extract from HKGIS
Information Bulletin
Daily Information
Friday, January 26, 1973
PRISONS SERVICES TO BE FURTHER IMPROVED
Commissioner Speaks On Crime, Prisons And Public
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Hong Kong's prison services are being reviewed with the aim of
improving them further so that they can meet the demands of the future.
This was revealed today by the Commissioner of Prisons, Mr. Tom
Garner, at a luncheon meeting of the Hong Kong Association of Pharmaceutical
Industry.
Hr. Garner said that while research into crime was still in its
infancy, his department had not been complacent and had come to grips
with the problem of compiling sufficient statistical data "which will be
meaningful in the years ahead."
In reviewing the planning of programmes for prisoners, he said,
his department had set a course which called for a review of prison
industries and its vocational training and after-care programmes.
He added: "We intend to review our nursing of sick prisoners and
train more staff as nursing auxiliaries."
It was also planned, he went on, to send more prison staff
abroad for further training and to gain wider experience.
One officer was already undergoing a 12 month course at Coleg
Harlech in Wales and another was studying physical education at Carnegie
College in Leeds, he said.
Mr. Garner stressed that prison staff must be of high calibre with
humanitarian ideals and of good education to meet the challenging task of
dealing with all types of offenders.
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