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Sir Murray
says HK can kill crime
HONGKONG community's unity in fighting crime was highly praised
by the Governor, Sir Murray MacLehose, yesterday.
"When we all combine we can achieve what to other communities appears impossible," he told a Fight Violent Crime Campaign reception at Government House, Hongkong cleaner or to make
Some 500 members of the recently formed area and district committees for the campaign attended the meeting.
"Our problem,' the Governor said, is that sometimes it is honest mea who feel afraid and criminais who feel safe."
Sir Murray emphasised that Hongkong's task is to make things the other way round; honest men must feel safe again and criminals must feel isolated, afraid and marked.
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"The moral and civic virtue of combining in action for the good was deeply rooted in Chinese and British traditions alike," he said.
He asked the committee members to "take pride" in re-asserting such traditional
virtues whether it is to make
it safer.
"This is the way of good citizenship," he said.
The first task of the arca and district committees will be to help make sure that the Fight Violent Crane Campaign
is a succe XL.
Many of these committees will also be assisting the second phase of the Clean Hongkong Campaign starting in August.
They will encourage local residents to fulfil the aim of the campaign which
to "reduce the incidence of violent crine".
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More than 1,900 members have already been appointed to the committees. Their role is to improve liaison between the police
and the public, encourage action in concert against crime, and make use of publicity to educate the publje on fight crime mcasires.
Young
poople
need recreation
AN INCREASE in recreational activities for the young people would improve the effectiveness of the Fight Crime Campaign in Hongkong, a social worker said yesterday,
Mr PF. Ceran, Chairman of the Boys' and Girls' Clubs Association suggested that the number of potential criminals could be reduced if teenagers were "kept off the streets".
He said that play leadership schemes had been introduced which had had "encouraging results".
These are schemes whereby children can be encouraged to join recreational and social activities held in public playgrounds under the guidance of a qualified worker, thereby preparing the children for fuller participation in community life as adults,” he saki.
He added that this scheme was further strengthened by the introduction of detached work. "The goals are to reach the unattached young men who are seen kitering around the streets aimlessly and the higher-age group who show anti-social behaviour."
The chairman said the association's workers had the full co-operation of the police whom they often came into contact with over legal matters. The association" had alo received valuable support and advice from knowledgeable persons connected with the Urban Services Department, schools, City District Office and Kaifong Associations.
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