SOCIAL WELFARE
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9.
In Hong Kong this term covers
payments in cash (public assistance) modelled on the
UK supplementary benefits scheme, payments in cash
to the disabled and persons over 75 (neither
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of which are means tested and thus are additional
to public assistance if paid) and a wide range of
community services including community centres and
Community Youth Officers and various services
involving the handicapped and young children.
total bill for these payments and services has
increased from HK$50:70 M in 1971/72 to HK$ 406.8 M
in '76/77. A five-year plan for their expansion is
rolled forward each year.
LAW AND ORDER
10.
Reported key crime increased
from 15,800 cases in 1965 to 44,300 in 1974 but was
held at 42,800 in 1975. These figures include
an increase in violent crime from 3,028 cases in 1965
to 19,682 in 1974, which again was held at 19,129
in '75. A wide range of measures were adopted in
1973 to combat this alarming situation. On the
professional Police side they included increase in the
strength of the uniformed Police from 12,219 at the
beginning of 1973 to 15,140 in December '75 and
a projected increase to 16,900 by March '77 (or 20,000
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