ROAD LONDON
MONGER LANCING
PARKER BISHOP LANCING
PLEASE PASS FOR THE UPCENT ATTENTION OF MR. BOXALL
VERBATIM TRANSCIPT OF ITEM ON IN FIRST REPORT' 1.P.4. 25/2/73
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PODEST MEE: PUT FIRST OF ALL. IN HONG KONG THE CORRUPT SENIOR PETER CODER, WHO THE PROSECUTION SAY ACQUIRED
ACID THREE H VORED THOUSAND POUNDS DURING HIS 21 YEARS IN THE HONG KONG POLICE FORCE HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO FOUR YEARS IN PRISON. HE ALCO GOT FOUR YEARS TO PIN COMCURRENTLY FOR CONSPIRACY AD IF YOU'RE THINKING THAT THE PUNISHMENT HARDLY SEEMS TO FIT THE CRIME. WELL. APPARENTLY THAT'S BECAUSE OF LEGAL TECHNICALITIES UMICH SAY HE COULD ONLY BE CHARGED ON ONE SPECIFIC CRIME OF BRIBERY AND CONSPIRACY, MANELY TAKING A TWO THOUSAND POUND PRICE FROM A CHINGSE POLICE OFFICT.
GORDDR, AN EX-CHIEF SUMRINTENDENT WAS EXTRADITED FROIA LONDONN LAST MONTH ... THERE HE IS LEAVING HEATH ROW AFTER AN EIGHT MONTH FIGHT IN THE COURTS. HERE TO AVOID BEING SENT RACK, }
A SINK OF INIQUITY WOULD HARDLY SEEM TOO STRONG A TERM TO DESCRIE THE FITE IN WHICH THE MONG PONG POLICE FORCE SLEMS 10 HAVE COT ITELLE, THE CHIEF WITNESS AGAINST THIS PARTICULAR COOPT CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT BEING ANOTHER COPRUPT SUPERINTENDENT VMO,, DDMITIFU MAXING HALF A MILLION POUNDS FOR HIMSELF OUT OF THE TIME HE WAS IN THE FORCE, HE GOT IMMUNITY FOR TURNING QUEEN'S LVIUENCE.
CME CAN'T HELP ASKING HOW THE BRITION GOVERNMENT, WHICH IS ULTIMATELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE HONG KONG POLICE FORCE ALLOWED IT TC GET INTO THIS STATE, PARTICULARLY AS IT HAD BEEN RECEIVING INFORMATION AS FAR BACK AS 1968, THAT IT WAS IN THIS STATE.
WITH MS NOW IN THE STUDIO IS MR. JAMES JOHNSON WHO'S LABOUR MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FOR HULL WEST AND A SPECIALIST IN COLONIAL AFFAIRS.
MR. JOHNSON, DO YOU THINK THERE'S BEEN SOME DERELICTION GF DUTY ON THE PART OF THE FOREIGN SECRETARY OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT IN NOT LOCKING INTO THINGS IN HONG KONG EARLIER?
ME. JOHNSON: WELL, NOEBEE IN THE IDEST VSENSE. YES, SECAUSE OVER THE YEARS WE'VE HAD ADJOURNMENT DEBATES, WE'VE HAD SPEECHES IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS DEBATES, WE'VE HAD QUESTION TIME AND OVER THE YEARS, AT LEAST IN MY CASE, POSSICLY SINCE 1967, WE'VE BEEN ASKING CONTINUALLY FOR A CLOSER LOOK AT THE LOCAL SITUATION AND THOSE OF US WHO'VE BEEN OUT THERE. WE'VE SEEN TOLD TIME AND TIME AND TIME AGAIN Y COUNCILLORS, WHETHER THEY WERE ENGLISH OR SCOTS ON THE LOCAL COUNCIL OR INDEED LOCAL PEOPLE, HONG KONG, CHINESE, WE'VE BEEN TOLD TIME AND TIME AGAIN THAT WE NEEDED TO DIG IN TO THIS SORT OF - WELL, ALMOST A DUNG HEAP HERE.
F. HCE: WELL, THEN HOW WAS IT THAT NO DIGGING IN WAS DONE,
I HEAN I SEE FROM LOOKING AT THE FILES THAT MRS. JUDITH MART AS LONG AGU AS 1967 SAID THERE WAS NOTHING THAT REQUIRED LOOKING VTO.
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