It confers a much wider power than is normal, e.g. in this country where it is confined to the performance of a police officer's duty to prevent and detect crime. We do not know, of course, what
your precise intentions are; but if there are
special circumstances in Hong Kong that in your view
justify the conferment in permanent legislation of a
wider power on police officers we should be glad to
know what these are. There would be advantage,
I feel sure, in our seeing your proposed legislation
in draft..
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