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needed by all concerned to protect children from road accidents. Kaifong welfare advancement associations greatly assisted by organizing local road safety campaigns designed especially to attract children. The campaigns included visits to schools, film shows, lectures, quizzes and practical demonstrations. Kaifong associations in Kowloon and Hong Kong sponsored two traffic safety campaigns at playgrounds in their areas and demonstrations were given by the Civil Aid Services, the Fire Services Department, St John Ambulance Brigade and military personnel. An important part was played in the campaigns by a traffic safety demonstration team from the Royal Military Police who gave realistic displays on the use of the roads by motorists and pedestrians.

In November a special schools' road safety campaign started. Talks were given by police officers at selected schools in Hong Kong and Kowloon and at the same time a similar campaign was conducted by the military authorities in military schools. Other activities included the distribution of road safety literature to public transport organizations and schools.

Traffic flow and parking. Further efforts were made to alleviate and control the parking problem in the business areas of Hong Kong by installing more meters. A third multi-storey car park able to accommodate over 700 vehicles is in the final stages of construction in the city centre of Hong Kong, and work also started on the provision of paid parking spaces in Kowloon.

The Communications and Transport Branch is responsible for the planning, installation and maintenance of the force telephone, teleprinter and radio systems. It also controls police transport and the training of drivers. The force radio networks are planned on a district and divisional basis, and include communications with mobile land units, marine craft, foot patrols and helicopters. Each district has its own telephone exchanges and a teleprinter network provides all-station broadcast facilities. Radio equipment is main- tained and serviced in the police radio workshops.

The police transport fleet now has more than 400 vehicles rang- ing from motor scooters to buses. Driving instruction is carried out at the Police Driving School in the New Territories. On com- pletion of training, force drivers are qualified to drive all types of light, medium and heavy vehicles.