CONFIDENTIAL
FINANCIAL
2,000 ODD CASE FILES INVOLVED. THE FOLLOWING TABLE SHOWS THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO SERVED/ARE SERVING PRISON SENTENCES FROM (A). DANGERIOUS DRIVING AND (B) OTHER ROAD TRAFFIC OFFENCES:
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(A) DANGERIOUS
(B)
OTHER ROAD
YEAR
DRIVING
. TRAFFIC OFFENCES
69/70
NOT AVAILABLE (DIFFERENT CLASSIFCATION USED)
70/71
6
40
71/72
4
4
72/73
2
73/74 (TO THE PRESENT) 5
13
68
2. WE ARE SORRY THAT SOME FIGURES ARE FOR CALENDAR AND OTHERS
FOR FINANCIAL YEARS: AND THAT WE CANNOT PROVIDE ALL THE INFORMATION
SOUGHT, BECAUSE OUR STATISTICS ARE NOOT KEPPPTTTT IN SUCH A FORM AS TO MAKE IT READILY AVAILABLE. WE HAVE INCLUDED EVERYTHING THAT
WE COULD PROVIDE IN THE TIME ALLOWED AND VERY MUCH HOPE IT WILL SUFFICE, AS A DISPROPORTIONATE AMOUNT OF WORK WOULD BE CAUSED HAD WE TO TRY AND ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS PRECISELY. WE THUS SUGGEST THAT THIS BE SAID, WHEN THE AVVAILABLLE FIGURES ARE PROVIDED
FCO PASS COPY TO HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE LONDON.
MACLEHOSE
COPIES TO:
HONG KONG GOVT OFFICE, LONDON.
FILES:
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PS TO MR. BLAKER
MR. YOUDE
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