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areas. They are often found in bathrooms and kitchens. The equipment required is simple and easily obtainable. Some of the so-called chemists have had pharmaceutical training, but others have merely picked up the skill from watching the process being undertaken many times over the years. Local conditions and the security of their operations, make their detection difficult.
Penaltics
37.
Although the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance is proving a satisfactory piece of legislation to deal with offences committed in connection with the illicit drug trade, there is a need to increase some of the penalties for engaging in it for profit. An amending Bill will thus be introduced into the Legislative Council.
38.
Many addicts need and should continue to receive treatment. But there is no doubt that deterrent sentences on offenders who profit, at whatever level, from the trade could materially help to overcome the drug problem; and such sentences are increasingly common elsewhere. The importance of the Courts' role must thus be recognized, and all proper steps taken to enable them to play it.
The Police and Preventive Service
39.
The Police and Preventive Service have in
recent years, as already noted, been increasingly successful in enforcing the laws against drugs. It is intended to follow up this success. The Narcotics Bureau is thus being expanded and reorganised to increase its capability to deal with the organisers of the trade, while the Police Force as a whole exerts the greatest possible pressure at street level against divans, heroin peddlers and other offenders. The Preventive Service has made a
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