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office; he would, as a matter of course, have been asked to
hand in his police warrant card; and, perhaps more important, someone in the Force might well have adverted to the fact that he might be in possession of his Civil Aviation Department
"red" permit which gave him access to all restricted areas in
Kai Tak Airport. It never crossed the minds of the Commissioner or the officers of the Anti-Corruption Office that Godber night
have such a permit. Their minds were concentrated on the
collection of evidence. r. Paul Grace was not told anything
about the details of the Anti-Corruption Investigation although he suspected that something of this nature was afoot. Nevertheless, he said frankly and honestly:
"looking at the matter in retrospect, I suppose
I was remiss in not thinking about this.
"?
Hr. KO Chun, the Superintendent in charge of Kowloon
City Division, who was primarily responsible for making recommendations in regard to the issue and withdrawal of such permits to police personnel, said that he would not have considered questioning the propriety of Godber continuing to possess a Civil Aviation Department permit merely because he had been transferred
to Police Headquarters.
The Commissioner, in evidence, said that he has now issued orders that in future no police officer will be permitted to have a Civil aviation Pass except when actually on duty, that is to say such passes will be kept at the Airport Police Station when not actually in use by officers in the course of their duty.
Godber was not kept under surveillance. Ir. Dawson said that this was considered by him and rejected. His evidence
on this reads:-
"I arrived at the conclusion that it would be useless to place Godber on surveillance for the following reasons:
we could rely on the stop list; b) our surveillance capability is mainly Chinese and this is difficult with an expatriate target;
(c) Godber would be surveillance conscious having been an instructor in this field;
(a) the legailty of such an action.
It
seemed highly likely that Godber would