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PRIORITY HONG KONG
CONFIDENTIAL
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TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
PRIORITY HONG KONG TELEGRAM NO.14 TO PEKING OF 21 JANUARY, 1969
CONFIDENTIAL
ADDRESSED PEKING
134 YOUR TELEGRAM NO. 12.
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'TEL NO. 14 OF 21ST JANUARY RFI FCO
POLICE SUPERVISION ORDERS.
IS THE ONLY DETAINEE TO HAVE BEEN PLACED UNDER
POLICE SUPERVISION CMY TELEGRAM NO. 7 REFERS) AND THIS COURSE
WAS TAKEN AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO ISSUEING A NEW DETENTION ORDER
WHEN HIS OLD ONE EXPIRED ON 7 JANUARY, THIS MAN HAD BEEN
INVOLVED IN PLANS TO ASSASSINATE THE DIVISIONAL SUPERINTENDENT
OF POLICE IN YUEN LONG AND TO BLOW UP A HELICOPTER SEMI COLON
AND THERE IS A REAL DANGER THAT HE MAY AGAIN BECOME A CENTRE
OF FRESH DISORDER AND A CAUSE OF PUBLIC APPREHENSION IN THE
YUEN LONG AREA.
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OF THE CONFRONTATION PRISONERS, AS DISTICT FROM DETAINEES,
29 HAVE BEEN RELEASED ON POLICE SUPERVISION ORDERS. 10 OF THEM
HAVE BEEN REPORTING TO THE POLICE AS REQUIRED BY THEIR ORDERS.
THE REMAINING 19 HAVE FAILED TO REPORT BUT ONLY ONE HAS BEEN
ARRESTED FOR FAILURE TO REPORT. HE WAS CHARGED WITH AN OFFENCE,
BUT ADMITTED TO A MENTAL HOSPITAL.
3. THE PURPOSE OF SUPERVISION ORDERS IS NOT TO FORCE THOSE
CONCERNED INTO COMMITING A NEW OFFENCE AND THEN TO IMPRISON
THEM, BUT TO REDUCE THE DANGERS TO PUBLIC SECURITY FOLLOWING
THEIR RELEATE. EITHER THEY WILL COMPLY WITH THE ORDER,
WHICH GIVES THE POLICE SOME CHANCE OF CONTROLLING THEIR ACTIVITIES,
OR THEY WILL DECIDE NOT TO COMPLY AND THEY WILL GO UNDERGROUND
WHICH WOULD MAKE IT MORE DIFFICULT FOR THEM TO RESUME THEIR
INFLUENCE IN THE NEW TERRITORIES.
BEEN FAIRLY EFFECTIVE.
THEIR USE IN THIS WAY HAS
RECEIVED IN ARCHIVES NË,31 22 JAN 1969
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