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DRAFT
LETTER
To:-
Mr Roberts MP
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inner reply].
You wrote to Tony Royle of /22 September, In it you matred
enclosing a letter from one of your constituents,
Dr Mansel Davies of Edward Dațies Chemical
Laboratories, University College Aberystwyth. In
his letter Dr Davies asked if you would look into
of certain aspects concerning the administration in
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Hong Kong.
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The first point Dr Davies raises is about
corruption in the Royal Hong Kong Police Force.
You will probably know that earlier this year
Chief Superintendent/Godber absconded from Hong
Kong after proceedings had been instituted against
him under the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance.
M Following Godber's departure from Hong Kong the
Senior Puisne Judge in Hong Kong, Sir Alastair
Blair-Kerr, was asked, first, to conduct an urgent inquiry into /the circumstances of Mr Godber's
departure; and then secondly to consider whether
any changes in the law of the current arrangements
His first report, published in
were required.
July, contained recommendations for closing certain
/loopholes