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Sir,

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STATEMENT BY HON S L CHEN, CBE, JP

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL 12.6.85

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Report of the UMELCO Police Group for 1984

Included in the papers tabled is the Report of the UMELCO Police Group for 1984. It covers in some detail, in the customary style, the work of the Group during the year.

It will be seen that the Group examined a record number of Police investigation reports in continuation of the trend which has developed since the Group was first established in 1977. I can only add that the same pattern is evident from the opening months of the current year.

In view of the Group's increasing workload and the vital need to maintain public confidence in the system, a Working Party with representatives from the Attorney General's Chambers, the Security Branch, the Police and the UMELCO Office, was set up to explore ways and means of improving the efficiency and working procedures for monitoring the handling of public complaints against the Police. The Working Party has submitted its Report and has recommended, among other things, the setting up of a full-time administrative and legal Secretariat to service the Group. The Working Party has also recommended the introduction of a filtering system under which the handling of serious complaints would be examined in-depth by Members of the Group, while the handling of less serious complaints would be examined on behalf of the Group Members by the full-time Secretariat; the Secretariat reporting its findings to Members. The Group has endorsed these .. recommendations which, I understand, are now being considered by the Administration.

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2 7 JUN 1985

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