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7.

Mr. YEUNG: Sir, when is the Government prepared to issue to

schools relevant materials relating to the danger of being

involved with triads ?

Secretary for Security:

Sir, of course, we already are issuing

some material to schools but our object is to get more advanced

and sophisticated material as soon as we possibly can.

Mrs. CHOW: Sir, among the 9,000 odd young offenders arrested

in the last three years, how many are not first offenders and

Police how many have previously been released under the Superintendent

Discretion Scheme and is it time to review the Police

Superintendent Discretion Scheme?

Secretary for Security: Sir, I am afraid I have not got with me

the detailed statistics

showing

inghich of those arrested were first

offenders and which were recidivists, but roughly about half

Police

of them are dealt with under the Superintendent Discretion

Scheme. You must remember we are dealing with young kids

aged from about seven to 15 and I personally feel very

Police

strongly that the Superintendent

Discretion Scheme is a good

and viable scheme for offenders of these young ages.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT: I have the names of five more

Members who wish to ask supplementaries.

line at that point.

I will draw the

Dr. HO:

Thank you, Sir. Among the 9,000 juvenile offenders

. in paragraph 2, how many offenders are triad

related and what has Government done to rehabilitate them ?

mentioned