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year. In addition, the seventh JPC Summer Youth Camp for over 700 residential campers and 800 day campers was held at the YMCA Youth Village at Wu Kwai Sha in August.

Four regular television programmes are jointly produced by the Police Public Relations Branch and Radio Television Hong Kong. The 15-minute weekly 'Police 15', which offers simple crime prevention advice as well as asks for witnesses to crimes to come forward, is presented on both Chinese channels.

The 12-year old programme is still enjoy a strong audience rating. Its counterpart, ‘Police Report', is a weekly five-minute programme shown on the two English channels. The third weekly 15-minute programme is a youth slot primarily for the benefit of members of the 'Junior Police Call', but serves also as an informative youth programme. The fourth programme, 'Crimewatch', has been telecast for over two years. Unsolved major crimes are reconstructed, and filmed for presentation while viewers are encouraged to help solve crimes through the use of telephone hotlines.

Training

The workload of the Police Training School increased considerably during the year as a result of the additional intake of officers to meet Police Force expansion. Recruit inspectors continue to undergo a 36-week course and recruit constables begin their career with a 22-week course. These courses cover criminal law, social studies, police and court pro- cedures, drill and musketry, first aid and, for overseas inspectors, an eight-week course in colloquial Cantonese. Recruit traffic wardens undergo a six-week course covering traffic legislation and procedures. The wide range of specialist and continuation training courses for uniform-branch officers continued.

The Stage V Building Development programme to expand facilities at the Police Train- ing School was finished during the year with the completion and handing over of an eight-storey teaching block and swimming pool.

The Detective Training School of the Force Training Wing continued to hold 12-week Standard Criminal Investigation Course (SCIC), while increasing its range of specialist training courses. The SCIC is designed primarily for uniform-branch officers upon transfer to criminal investigation duties.

All officers undergoing SCIC training receive instruction in disaster victim identification techniques, and while on the course form the Disaster Victim Identification Unit which would be deployed in the event of a major civil disaster. In September, the unit was activated during an air crash involving an international airliner.

Other than the standard courses, continuation training as well as advanced and specialist courses were held to meet the needs of officers with various duties.

Command courses for senior inspectors, chief inspectors and superintendents continued to be a feature of police training policy, with emphasis placed on management techniques and personnel matters.

Police Cadet School

During its 15 years of operation, the Police Cadet School has trained 3 828 cadets. Of this number, 3 545 joined the Police Force, 44 entered the Fire Services, 75 joined the Customs and Excise Department and 57 joined the Correctional Services Department.

A decision was taken earlier in the year to close the school because of the expected decrease in the number of suitable Form III school leavers in the future, due to the higher education standards, and the ability of the police force to recruit sufficient officers at Form V level and above for direct entry. The school will be closed in two phases - Dodwell's