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A five

Question No. 4

Crime rate among

Vietnamese

refugees

Qral Reply by

The Hon G T Barnes, J.P., Secretary for Security to a question from Hon Ms Selina Chow, OBE, JP for the

Legislative Council meeting of 9 March 1988

4. MRS. CHOW asked:

Question

Will the Government inform this Council how the crime rate in the last years for Vietnamese refugees accommodated in open damps compares with the overall crime rate for the population of Hong Kong and whether this will have implications for Government's policy towards Vietnamese refugees?

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SECRETARY FOR SECURITY:

Reply

Sir,

Expressed in terms of the number of offenders

Sever

per 1000 of the population aged and over, the crime

rate among Vietnamese refugees in the open centre has

been consistently higher than that for the population as

tive

a whole over the past 5 years, as illustrated in the

tree Appendix I.

table of figures annexed to the written version of this-

reply. However, a direct comparison is difficult since

the Vietnamese refugee population has a higher

to

proportion of males in the ages 16,30 than there is in