Dear Mr Edmunds,

I refer to your preceding e-mail dated 8 September 2016 requesting for
"refugee crime statistics for Wong Tai Sin District".

Your request is being processed and you will be informed of the result in
due course. In the meantime, please feel free to contact the undersigned
if you have further enquiries.

Yours sincerely,

(Miss Wendy YU)
for Commissioner of Police

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Scott Edmunds <[FOI #105 email]>
To:
FOI requests at Hong Kong Police Wong Tai Sin District <[Hong Kong Police Wong Tai Sin District request email]>
2016-09-08 11:20
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Subject:

Reference:
Freedom of Information request - Refugee crime statistics for Wong Tai Sin District
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Dear Hong Kong Police Wong Tai Sin 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 .

Best wishes,

Scott Edmunds

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Dear Mr Edmunds,

I write further to my interim reply to you dated 15 September 2016.

Please be informed that this Formation does not maintain the statistics for
the requested information stated in your request. If you require other
information to which we can be of assistance, please feel free to contact
the undersigned.

Yours sincerely,

(Miss Wendy YU)
for Commissioner of Police

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Dear Mr Edmunds,

I refer to your preceding e-mail dated 28 September 2016.

Please be informed that this Formation does not maintain the statistics on
recognisance or form 8 holder arrests as stated in your request.

As for total arrest statistics, this Formation has only maintained the
figures between 2010 and 2015 which are provided in the table below -

Year |Number of persons arrested
| by Wong Tai Sin District
-------+---------------------------
2010 | 2,109
-------+---------------------------
2011 | 1,873
-------+---------------------------
2012 | 2,371
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2013 | 2,538
-------+---------------------------
2014 | 3,488
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Reference:
Re: Fw: Freedom of Information request - Refugee crime statistics for Wong Tai Sin District
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Dear Hong Kong Police Wong Tai Sin District,

If you don't have statistics on non-refoulement claimant arrests do you
have statistics on recognisance or form 8 holder arrests? I also asked for
your total arrest statistics from the same time period, so can you also
provide these to me as well.

Yours faithfully,

Scott Edmunds

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Dear Mr Edmunds,

I refer to your preceding e-mail dated 27 October 2016.

Please note that this Formation does not maintain the statistics of Form 8
holder arrests in the period that you previously requested (i.e. 2005 -
2015). We could provide the statistics for the first three quarters in
2016 in the table below -
|---------------------+----------------------+---------------------+----------------|
|1st Quarter of 2016 |2nd Quarter of 2016 |3rd Quarter of 2016 |Total |
|---------------------+----------------------+---------------------+----------------|
|7 |6 |5 |18 |
|---------------------+----------------------+---------------------+----------------|

Please also note that this Formation does not maintain any crime statistics
of non-refoulement claimants, nor the statistics of non-ethnic Chinese
(NEC) arrests in 2010. We could provide the statistics of NEC arrests from
2011 to 2015 in the table below -
|----------------+-------------------------------------------------------|
| Year | Number of NEC arrested in Wong Tai Sin District |
|----------------+-------------------------------------------------------|
| 2011 | 55 |
|----------------+-------------------------------------------------------|
| 2012 | 85 |
|----------------+-------------------------------------------------------|
| 2013 | 83 |
|----------------+-------------------------------------------------------|
| 2014 | 75 |
|----------------+-------------------------------------------------------|
| 2015 | 83 |
|----------------+-------------------------------------------------------|

The overall arrest statistics in 2015 were provided to you in my reply to
your previous request dated 6 October 2016 at 15:39 and are copied below
for your easy reference -
|----------------+------------------------------------------------------|
| Year | Number of persons arrested by Wong Tai Sin District |
|----------------+------------------------------------------------------|
| 2015 | 3,482 |
|----------------+------------------------------------------------------|

For data in 2016 as mentioned in the last paragraph of your e-mail, please
let us know if we could be of assistance in providing the specific kind of
crime data that you wish to obtain.

Yours sincerely,

(Miss Wendy YU)
for Commissioner of Police

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Scott Edmunds <[FOI #105 email]>
To:
FOI requests at Hong Kong Police Force Wong Tai Sin District <[Hong Kong Police Force Wong Tai Sin District request email]>
2016-10-27 15:46
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Subject:

Reference:
Internal review of Freedom of Information request - Refugee crime statistics for Wong Tai Sin
District
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Dear Hong Kong Police Force Wong Tai Sin District,

This is strange you don't have Form 8 arrest data, as Kowloon East Region
has this data for 2016 at least, so they must have collected it from your
district:

https://accessinfo.hk/en/request/refugee...

Can you check again that you really don't have this data as it is
inconsistent with the evidence here and I will potentially need go to the
ombudsman to look into this further?

If you don't have Form 8 arrest data from 2010-2015 do you have arrest data
for other overlapping groups such as non-ethnic chinese arrests,
non-refoulement claimants, etc.?

Can I also get overall arrest data for 2015 and whatever data you have for
2016?

Yours faithfully,

Scott Edmunds

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