Appendix D-Contd.
the Carrian Group and the Hang Lung Bank. Due to the magnitude and scope of these cases, increased resources and manpower have been devoted to their investigations. Statistics showing the trend of overall crime cases and commercial crime cases over the past five years are-
1982
1983
1984
1985
Table 4
1986
Overall Crime
Number of reported crime cases
87 227
86 000
83 532
86 418
81 411
Detection rate
46.4%
42.9%
42.8%
45.8%
47.9%
Commercial crime
Value of property stolen ($mn)
258.1
440.7
676.1
2,462.4
2,052.0
16 In the maintenance of law and order on the roads, the issue of summonses and fixed penalty tickets to traffic offenders has continued. The steady decrease in the number of fixed penalty tickets issued since 1982 is attributable to many factors, the primary ones being the increased deterrent effect following adjustments of the fixed penalty rates and introduction of measures against non-payment in 1983 and 1984. Statistics showing the number of summonses and fixed penalty tickets issued over the past five years are—
Number of summonses issued
Number of fixed penalty tickets issued
1985
153 551
1982
149 576
1983
119 508
1984
125 680
2 210 548
1 880 245
1 459 472
1 226 176
Table 5
1986
153 637
1 157 538
17 Consolidated account expenditure of the Judiciary underwent a substantial increase in 1982-83 mainly due to provision of additional posts to cope with the increased workload as a result of the increased number of criminal and civil cases being tried in the High Court, District Courts and Magistrates' Courts. The trend is reflected in the following statistics
Table 6
Number of Cases heard in the High Court, District Courts and Magistrates' Courts
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
High Court
Criminal jurisdiction
Magisterial appeals
Civil jurisdiction
Sub-total:
319
308
335
262
270
689
977
846
1 144
1 330
16 637
19 824
14 363
12 835
12 157
17 645
21 109
15 544
14 241
13 757
District Courts
Criminal jurisdiction
I 199
1 277
1 246
1 359
Civil jurisdiction
47 659
51 155
64 105
58 443
1 479
50 966
Sub-total:
48 858
52 432
65 351
59 802
52 445
Magistrates' Courts
Charge case
135 261
163 436
184 363
178 000
172 459
Summons
829 954
755 980
558 700
413 166
370 605
Anti-litter
48 548
55 034
67 838
48 137
49 968
Miscellaneous proceedings
7 478
12 389
14 199
14 843
14 207
Sub-total:
1 021 241
986 839
825 100
654 146
607 239
Total:
1 087 744
1 060 380
905 995
728 189
673 441
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