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COUNCIL

18 October 1989

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HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE

香港立法局

SECRETARY FOR SECURITY: Sir, for the camps

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of which there are over

which the police are involved in, the four which they have management responsibility have 10 931 Vietnamese. There are two other camps at Stonecutters and Argyle where they have perimeter manning responsibilities. The manning ratios are as follows: for the four camps where police have full management responsibilities the manning ratio is one police officer to approximately 28 Vietnamese men, women and children. For the two camps at Stonecutters and Argyle where they have perimeter responsibilities the ratio is one police officer to 38 Vietnamese. These figures necessarily vary slightly from time to time. As for the second part of the question, there have been indications during the course of the summer that police morale and indeed the morale of Correctional Services and Civil Aid Services and other government staff involved in VBP duties has been adversely affected. This is not surprising. The duties which they are called upon to perform are unusual and in many cases the environment is unpleasant. However at no time has the matter of morale ever affected the manner in which duties have been performed. In recent weeks there has been a discernible improvement in morale across the board.

薛浩然議員問:保安司可否告知本局,在今年首九個月內的59445宗報案數字中,涉及越南 船民或難民所犯的個案有多少?同時,在設有船民禁閉中心或越南營的地區,其犯罪率最近有上 昇趨勢,這趨勢又如何解釋?

SECRETARY FOR SECURITY: Sir, the Vietnamese crime statistics show that there has been an increase in crime committed by the Vietnamese. In the third quarter of this year a total of 451 such cases were reported. These represent a total of 2.1% of all crimes committed in Hong Kong. For the first half of this year, Vietnamese crimes accounted for only 1% of total crimes in Hong Kong. So there is, as you can see, an increase there, partly attributable to the very large increase in the numbers of Vietnamese who have arrived in the territory. As I said in answer to an earlier question, I am afraid I do not have the correlation of crime and areas in which there are VBP camps and centres. But I shall look into this and try to provide figures which will explain that situation. (Annex V)

梁煒彤議員問:保安司的答覆主要是引用罪案舉報率的數據。保安司可否告知本局,近年的破案

率如何?有否受到因警方抽調人手負責船民中心事務所影響?

SECRETARY FOR SECURITY: Sir, I can see that I have come unequipped with the mass of figures and tables which would be required to answer some of the questions I am getting this afternoon. I must apologize and say that I do not have the detection rate figures and I will provide these in writing (Annex VI).