TNAG-1733-FCO40-2446-Minutes-and-Hansards-of-the-Legislative-Council-of-Hong-Kong-1988 — Page 71

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Sir,

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ur reasons for excluding them are:

first, both the Police and the ICAC already have independently monitored

monitored redress systems which are working well and there is no justification for replacing or duplicating them;

27 secondly, if the Commissioner for Administrative Complaints took over these organisations, most of his time would be taken up in dealing with complaints against the Police which number about 400 per month - some eight times the anticipated monthly volume of complaints to be dealt with by the Commissioner; and

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thirdly, complaints against the Police and the ICAC are of a fundamentally different nature to maladministration complaints, being for the most part justifiable in the courts or involving internal discipline.

Sir,

For these reasons, we do not see inclusion of le the Police and the ICAC as a practical option.

option. However, I

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will say that it is our intention to appoint the

Commissioner for Administrative Complaints as an

ex/officio member of both the Police Complaints Committee

and the ICAC Complaints Committee. This will allow him to lend his expertise to these monitoring organisations and bolster their operation.

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