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Supplementary to Question No. 3
LegCo Sitting on 11.5.88
MR. CHENG : Sir, will the Secretary for Security elaborate
on the way in which regulators of the Immigration
Department identify residents and non-residents in the
hall and help them queue in the right lines?
SECRETARY FOR SECURITY: Sir, I suspected that I would get
a question like this and took the precaution of going
out to the airport yesterday and see for myself precisely
how this was done.
The regulators are Immigration
Department's staff. They are experienced and I was struck
with the ease and the speed with which they were able to
decide who was likely to be a Hong Kong resident or not a
Hong Kong resident. In assessing whether they should
direct particular people to
particular attention to whether the person was old,
incapacitated, or had small children.
an under-used line, they paid
MRS. CHOW : sir, may I suggest, instead of the present
system where the regulation of traffic to the counters is
left to incoming travellers, that the Administration gives
consideration to having two main queues, one for Hong Kong
residents and the other for non-residents, each with
regulator at the top of the queues so that the flexibility
of the use of counters could be
could be achieved by co-ordination
between the two regulators while neither Hong Kong
residents nor visitors would be inconvenienced.
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.