42
117.
The Force, with the assistance of Home Office Inspectors,
has put a great deal of effort and thought into planning better
housekeeping and welfare for its men and better deployment or its
resources. The housekeeping and welfare include a 5-year building
programme covering a wide variety of projects from new police stations
and a new H.Q. at Wanchai and 4 new marine bases for the expanding
fleet, to new clubhouses at Boundary Street and Causeway Bay fitness
rooms in Divisional Stations, and 4,000 more married quarters for
Junior Police Officers. In our concern to expand and adapt the Force
to meet the needs of modern Hong Kong, I am sure that we have paid too
little attention to the working and living conditions of members of
the Force, and there is now a substantial backlog to be tackled.
118.
*
The tendency of the Force's plans for redeployment is
towards devolution of initiative responsibility and administration to
Divisions and Districts, and this will include the C.T.D. A series of
reviews and experiments is now being undertaken. A review is also being
+
undertaken of the requirements of the Marine Police whose fleet of 52
existing vessels will be increased by 24 and largely replaced over the
next 10 years.
119.
?
To sum up I believe the Force is responding effectively and
imaginatively to the new conditions and new spread of population in
Hong Kong, as well as to the new types of crime that confront it.
120.
Subject to the approval of Executive Council, amendments
will be introduced to the Societies Ordinance and the Police Force
Ordinance.
/PRISONS
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.