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(g) that the Crown should make full use of its right to apply

for a review of sentence in drug cases with a view to a rise in the general level of sentence for selected offences;

(h) that a special Dangerous Drugs Law Enforcement Unit

should not be established;

(i) that the Preventive Service should not be incorporated

into the Police Force;

(j) that there should not be a considerably enhanced Preventive

Service presence in the Police Narcotics Bureau;

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(k) that the Bureau's primary aim should be to neutralise the

operations of the major syndicate organisers, and that it should be given all necessary assistance by other branches of the Force;

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that the Preventive Service should remain responsible for detecting the import and export of dangerous drugs and should continue to conduct anti-drug operations on land and street level;

(m) that suitable arrangements should be made to ensure

satisfactory liaison between the Police and the Preventive Service;

(n) that, at an appropriate time in the light of the other calls on

Police resources, consideration should be given to divorcing the Narcotics Bureau from the CID to become a branch of the Police Force with an appropriate establishment;

(o) that at an appropriate time, further consideration should be given to the desirability of establishing a commission of inquiry to unearth information about major syndicate operators;

(p) that the idea of detaining major syndicate operators without

trial should not be pursued at present;

(q) that Narcotics Bureau field squads, concentrating solely on

illicit narcotics activity, should be set up as soon as Police manpower resources permit.

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These recommendations have been discussed with those principally concerned, and are generally agreed. If Honourable Members advise that they should be accepted, they will be

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