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OPERATIONS TARGET COMMITTEE, INDEPENDENT COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION
MAY, 1975
1. Department
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Police (Hung Hom).
2. Source
Mr Alan Ellis, Ex-Probationary Inspector of Police, living at 20, Bishops Close, Ham Common, Richmond-upon-Thames, Surrey, England, to the Secretary of State for "oreign and Commonwealth Affairs dated 2.12.74 in the form of a statement.
3. Allegation
a.
b.
About mid-October, 1962, he was offered a $500 bribe by a room boy at Hung Hom Police Station known as
allegedly on behalf of the Divisional Superintendent
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Hung Hom Division.
On 28.10.62 a room boy of Hung Hom Police Station known as
again offered a $500 bribe to Mr Ellis, purportedly on behalf of the Divisional Superintendent
7, Hung Hom
Division.
4. Report
a.
b.
c.
The investigation was based on a very detailed and lengthy statement by Mr Ellis, part of which alleged corrupt offers and the rest making representations about his wrongful dismissal from the Hong Kong Police Force.
In order to trace the room boy allegedly known
records and photographs of all civilian staff still employed at Hung Hom Police Station were obtained.
as
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Eighteen photographs of male civilian staff members of Hung Hom, half of whom were believed to be employed in October, 1962, were sent to Mr. A C Stuart, Hong Kong and Indian Ocean Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, requesting that they be made available for viewing by Mr Ellis, in the hope that a positive identification of Ah Lam could be made.
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