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in 1974 was handed a membership card by the Commissioner of Police during the 15th anniversary celebrations.

JPC provides its members with healthy recreational pursuits as well as involving them in a wide variety of community services. To commemorate the outstanding performance of JPC members in community service, an award scheme, sponsored by a leading bank, is held annually to select the best member, leader, council and school club.

The Mini-Olympics, an annual JPC sports festival, encourages healthy competition in swimming, basketball, football, table-tennis and athletics, and the eighth JPC Summer Youth Camp was again held at the YMCA Youth Village at Wu Kwai Sha in August with 700 residential campers and 800 day campers taking part. The camp formed part of the 1989 Summer Youth Programme and the theme was 'Fight Youth Crime'.

Four regular television programmes jointly produced by the Police Public Relations Branch and Radio Television Hong Kong continued to enjoy good audience ratings.

Crime Watch, a monthly TV programme presented on the Chinese channels on both TV stations, features reconstructions of unsolved crimes and seeks assistance from the public through the use of telephone hotlines. Police 15, a 15-minute programme, and Police Report, a 5-minute programme, are aired respectively on the Chinese and English channels every week. Both programmes offer simple crime prevention advice as well as appealing for witnesses to crime to come forward. The fourth programme, a 15-minute weekly programme, is a youth slot primarily for the benefit of JPC members but at the same time - serving as an informative youth programme. The Voice of JPC, a 30-minute Chinese weekly radio programme, also disseminates messages about fighting crime and civic education.

Training

Recruit inspectors continue to undergo a 36-week course while the recruit constables' initial course lasts 24 weeks. These courses cover criminal law, social studies, police and court procedures, drill and musketry, first aid, life-saving skills, self-defence, and, for overseas inspectors, an eight-week course in colloquiai 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 throughout the year.

The Detective Training School also continued to hold 12-week Standard Criminal Investigation Courses (SCIC) for inspectors, NCOs and constables. These courses were attended by a small number of officers from the Immigration Department, Customs and Excise Department, Macau and the Seychelles.

All officers undergoing SCIC training receive specialist 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 disaster.

Other than the standard courses, continuation training, as well as advanced and specialist training courses, were held to meet the demands of crime formation officers or senior uniform branch officers who have crime units under their command. A pilot course was also run for officers who may be required to deal with victims of sexual assault or child abuse.

Junior, intermediate and senior command courses continued to provide management training and decision-making skills for inspectors, chief inspectors and superintendents.

Specialist courses were also arranged with outside educational institutions to cater for specific job-related training needs, such as catering, outdoor activities, radar, navigation,