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Date:
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Reporter:
25.11.86
2.15
PMS
5 pm
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errors are quite big?
SCS:
I should think, sir, that the problem is
a very small one, probably less than 2%.
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MR CHAN:
Thank you.
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CHAIRMAN:
Less than 2%.
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Yes.
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CHAIRMAN:
Mr Poon?
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MR POON:
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Mr Secretary, apart from this, what you
said about the errors being of a minor nature, have you or anyone
in your department ever discovered that errors were made intentionally rather than by pure mistake?
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I can recall, sir, that there was one case
where
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perhaps the officer who was responsible was deliberately manipulating the records. In this particular case disciplinary action was taken against the officer
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CHAIRMAN:
I see.
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Will you just bear in mind that even in
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computerisation it is what you put in that matters.
Yes, quite.
And this intention, not error, would not
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CHAIRMAN:
I take the point, sir.
Any other point the Committee wish to make
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