Report No. COM.21.
Continuation No. 10
which they don't possess, so when they were asked if they were guilty or not guilty, Mr. Chew said "Not guilty, I don't even have any table tennis tables". The magistrate didn't believe him and he was fined a total of one hundred and sixty dollars, or three weeks in prison.
Interviewer: Why was this man picked out by the police for having these tables outside?
Mrs. Elliott: Well that was the question I asked him when he came to me and I said to him "Well aren't there others with the same kind of obstruction?" because I'd seen those obstructions myself, tables, chairs, all sorts. And he said ... well his wife said that previous to the summonses, a policeman on the beat had passed by and pointed out an obstruction opposite to her, bicycles, a whole row of bicycles, and the policeman said "That man pays fifteen dollars a month". Well she didn't take the hint that she was expected to pay fifteen dollars.
Narrator: Every police station in Hong Kong contains a shrine to the god Gwan Di. He's worshipped for the five virtues of honesty, loyalty, fidelity, truth and justice. Strangely enough, he's also the god of businessmen.
The senior detective in the station begins the ceremony with the burning of joss sticks, he then offers gifts of roast suckling pigs, ducks and chickens to Gwan Di. The food was later eaten by the police. Next, paper, representing police uniforms, is burnt as an offering to the god. And finally, the police burn imitation paper money to show that they're not influenced by wealth or thoughts of material gain. They then asked us to pay forty pounds for the food for the ceremony.
The system who are investigating specific cases of corruption by the police is obscure and the history of other attempts at exposing corruption isn't reassuring.
In 1964, a group of European officers in Hong Kong wrote to