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STATEMENT BY DR. THE HON. DANIEL TSE OBE, IP

IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL 25.5188

REPORT OF THE ROLICE COMPLAINTS `COMMITTEE_1987. Address by Member presenting paper

Report of the Police Complaints Committee 1987

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On behalf of both the old and the new Police Complaints Committee, may I table the Committee's Annual Report for 1987.

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The Committee is an independent monitoring group first appointed by Your Excellency's predecessor in early 1986 to take over the work previously performed by the former UMELCO Police Group. It comprises one Chairman and two Vice-Chairmen, all drawn from the

OMELCO, and nine Justices of the Peace, with the Attorney General as the only official representative on the

committee. I feel honoured to have been appointed le chairman by you, Sir, in January this year to succeed

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The year 1987 was one of further consolidation and development of the work the Committee had undertaken in 1986. The Committee, through the support of an independent Secretariat, had been able to vet in detail each and every complaint case processed by the Complaints Against the Police Office (GAP) of the Royal Hong Kong Police Force. During the year under report, the Committee had examined a total of 3,997 complaint cases, embracing 6,117 allegations. During the process of vetting these complaint cases, the Committee had also proposed a number of reviews of, and changes to, Police practices, procedures and instructions with a view to improving the overall effectiveness of the complaints system and helping the Commissioner of Police in identifying and rectifying areas which were perceived as conducive to the generation of public complaints.

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