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Dear Mr. Barnett,
I am writing to draw your attention to an
article in your September 20th edition, under the "Diary"
headline, about an advertisement recruiting young officers
to the Royal Hong Kong Police Force.
This article makes a number of assertions of
fact which are demonstrably wrong. In the first place,
there is no rank of Chief Constable in the Royal Hong
Kong Police Force and the allegation in the article
about the "last Chief Constablo" could only be taken as
referring to the last Commissioner of Police in Ilong
Kong. Any allegation that the last Commissioner is "still
evading Interpol on corruption charges" is quite unfounded
and I assume that you will make a correction of this
statement as soon as possible.
For your information, the former Hong Kong Police
officer against whom extradition proceeding have been brought
in Britain is Mr. Peter Godber. He was one of 14 Chief
Superintendents in the Royal Hong Kong Police Force. The
rank of Chief Superintendent is junior to the ranks of
Assistant Commissioner, Senior Assistant Commissioner,
Deputy Commissioner and Commissioner of Folice.
In the second place, the advertisement to which
the article refers was not placed by Leo Burnett, either
here or in Singapore. Leo Burnett do not handle the
account.
We do and have done so for a number of years.
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