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As to the question of being self-financing, the

Commissioner of Correctional Services recently referred to

this during the Finance Committee's examination of the Draft

Estimates for 1988 39. He pointed out then that the value of

services and products of prison industries, calculated at

commercial value, exceeded the total cost of production

(inclusive of administrative overheads) by some $15 million

annually from 1982 to 1984 and around $30 million annually

from 1984 to 1987.

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It is certainly our intention to continue to operate

and develop prison industries in this direction. But I

should, perhaps, remind Members that however desirable the

principles of cost-effectiveness, the basic objective of

prison industries is to assist in the internal management of

institutions by keeping prisoners' purposefully employed.

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Both Mr. CHUNG Pui-lam and M, YEUNG Po-kwan have

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Taking Mr CHUNG's point first, the police force

continues to grow steadily to meet the ferritory's needs, and

over the next few years we shall be implementing an additional

limited expansion programme to enable the police to take over

the anti-illegal immigration duties of the garrison on the

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I can assure Mr. Chung that the quality of

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