Dear Sir/Madam,

I refer to your email below dated 2016-09-08.

The United Nations Refugee Convention has never been applied to Hong Kong;
non-refoulement claimants in Hong Kong are not to be treated as
"refugees".

In relation to the statistics of persons on recognisance (mostly
non-refoulement claimants) arrested for crime cases, we have the data
since 2016 for Kwun Tong District as attached :

We do not maintain figures relating to prosecution and conviction for Kwun
Tong District.

Thank you for your enquiry.

Yours faithfully,

(Miss Amy CHOW)
for Commissioner of Police
Tel. 3661 0608

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Scott Edmunds To: FOI requests at Hong Kong
<[FOI #106 email]> Police Kwun Tong District
<[Hong Kong Police Kwun Tong District request email]>
  2016-09-08 11:22 Cc:
Subject: Freedom of Information
request - Refugee crime
Reference: statistics for Kwun Tong
District

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Dear Hong Kong Police Kwun Tong District,

Can you please provide data on arrest statistics of refugees
(non-refoulement claimants). Specifically I would like the most complete
yearly statistics of refugees arrests from your district for every full
year you have data going back to 2005, plus total arrest statistics from
the same time period to put it into context.

If you have a breakdown of prosecution and conviction rates that would be
useful too.

On top of total numbers, if you have the nationalities of the refugees
arrested please provide that information. I’m happy to take digital files
if that’s easier, but please attach PDFs as I can't view information in
tabular form in the email .

Yours faithfully,

Scott Edmunds

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Dear Sir/Madam,

I refer to your email below dated 2016-09-13.

"On recognisance" is an immigration status for allowing certain
individuals to stay in Hong Kong, which is a discretionary power exercised
by the Director of Immigration in accordance with the Immigration
Ordinance (Cap.115).

The the total number of arrests and types of crimes for which the persons
on recognisance were arrested in Kwun Tong District in 2016 is attached:

We do not maintain figures relating to persons on recognisance arrested
for crime earlier than 2016 for Kwun Tong District .

Thank you for your enquiry.

Yours faithfully,

(Miss Amy CHOW)
for Commissioner of Police
Tel. 3661 0608

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Scott Edmunds To: FOI requests at Hong Kong
<[FOI #106 email]> Police Kwun Tong District
<[Hong Kong Police Kwun Tong District request email]>
  2016-09-13 16:35 Cc:
Subject: Re: Freedom of Information
request - Refugee crime
Reference: statistics for Kwun Tong
District

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Dear Ms Chow/Hong Kong Police Kwun Tong District,

Many thanks for getting back to me so quickly.  Just a question, but how
do you define "on recognisance", and if they are not non-refoulement
claimants, what other types of people are followed in this category?

The 2016 data is useful, but do you have "on recognisance" data going back
further than this? If not to 2005, then at least 2014 and 2015 data?  Can
I also get the statistics on the total number of arrests from Kwun Tong
District over the same time period to put this into context? Also for the
"on recognisance" arrests, do you have any detail on what the arrests were
for? At least for any subsection of immigration offences, employment
offences, or violent crimes?

Yours faithfully,

Scott Edmunds

-----Original Message-----

Dear Sir/Madam,

I refer to your email below dated 2016-09-08.

The United Nations Refugee Convention has never been applied to Hong Kong;
non-refoulement claimants in Hong Kong are not to be treated as
"refugees".

In relation to the statistics of persons on recognisance (mostly
non-refoulement claimants) arrested for crime cases, we have the data
since 2016 for Kwun Tong District as attached :

We do not maintain figures relating to prosecution and conviction for Kwun
Tong District.

Thank you for your enquiry.

Yours faithfully,

(Miss Amy CHOW)
for Commissioner of Police
Tel. 3661 0608

*** This e-mail message (together with any attachments) is for the
designated recipient only. It may contain information that is privileged.
If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any
use, retention, disclosure, copying, printing, forwarding or dissemination
of the message is strictly prohibited. If you have received the message in
error, please erase all copies of the message (including attachments) from
your system and notify the sender immediately. ***

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謹此通知，如你並非預定收件人，嚴禁使用、保留、披露、複製、列印、轉發或發布
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通知發件人。***

Scott Edmunds To: FOI requests at Hong Kong
<[FOI #106 email]> Police Kwun Tong District
<[Hong Kong Police Kwun Tong District request email]>
  2016-09-08 11:22 Cc:
Subject: Freedom of Information
request - Refugee crime
Reference: statistics for Kwun Tong
District

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Dear Hong Kong Police Kwun Tong District,

Can you please provide data on arrest statistics of refugees
(non-refoulement claimants). Specifically I would like the most complete
yearly statistics of refugees arrests from your district for every full
year you have data going back to 2005, plus total arrest statistics from
the same time period to put it into context.

If you have a breakdown of prosecution and conviction rates that would be
useful too.

On top of total numbers, if you have the nationalities of the refugees
arrested please provide that information. I’m happy to take digital files
if that’s easier, but please attach PDFs as I can't view information in
tabular form in the email .

Yours faithfully,

Scott Edmunds

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