EXTRACT FROM "MIDWEEK" 16.1.75:
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MANGOLD:
Could you ask him whether this raid has come as a complete
surprise for him? (BACKGROUND) It has come as a surprise. You you ask him whether this raid is going to make any difference to his running a betting establishment if he is indeed running it...(BACKGROUND)
MANGOLD:
He will stop operations after this raid.
He is never going to do it again. Never. How is he going to make money? Does that mean he is going to lose a great deal of money now? (BACKGROUND) (HE IS ONLY EMPLOYED IN THIS ESTABLISHMENT)
Could you
ask him if he is has been arrested before? (YES HE HAS BEEN ARRESTED) There is a separate police station on this division?
PERKINS:
Yes this forms part of police division....police station down. the road...(HOW FAR?)...quarter of a mile, half a mile I should think.
MANGOLD:
Well if it's only a quarter of a mile away why hasn't that police station busted this teahouse before?
PERKINS:
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That I am afraid I can't answer. Well perhaps they have. wouldn't know until I go back...if I could go back and check their records.
MANGOLD:
But is it possible that pay-offs have been made to one or two
corrupt people in this local police station?
PERKINS:
MANGOLD:
Well I suppose it could be possible yes.
It's been claimed by some people Ted and I make the obvious exception of yourself and your staff that gambling is controlled by the CID here because of the size of the pay-offs, that they really have a hand in it. If this is the case or if this is partially the case, don't you ever think you're just wasting your time trying?
PERKINS:
I wouldn't say wasting my time, I feel quite frustrated doing the gambling raids because I know really I am not achieving anything.
MANGOLD:
Later in the police canteen fifteen top detectives begin the laborious paper work that follows a raid. Each betting slip must be translated from Chinese to English and the work officially certified by the Supreme Court. It's a time-consuming and expensive business for bringing the flies of corruption to court. Commissioner Slevin himself acknowledges that something is wrong
somewhere.
SLEVIN:
I shall be very pleased when the day arrives... gambling as a whole is gradually legalised so that you know it's another element of a lawful activity, a
lawful social activity.
MANGOLD:
What effect would the legalisation at the stroke of a pen for gambling have on corruption in Hong Kong?
HUNT:
It would wipe out all the big money because that's where the big money comes from.
BBH