GRS 500A PRIORITY
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CONFIDENTIAL
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TO PRIORITY HONG KONG TELNO 298 OF 18 APRIL
PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION: LORD BROCKWAY
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(02) X106
1. LORD BROCKWAY HAS PUT DOWN THE FOLLOWING QUESTION FOR ORAL ANSWER ON TUESDAY 6 MAY: TO ASK HMG HOW MANY CASES HAVE BEEN INVESTIGATED BY THE INDEPENDENT COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION IN HONG KONG: IN HOW MANY CASES ACTION WAS RECOMMENDED: AND IN. HOW MANY CASES DID THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AGREE TO ACTION?
2. GRATEFUL FOR LATEST FIGURES TO ENABLE US TO REPLY TO THIS QUESTION: OUR LATEST INFORMATION RELATES TO MID-FEBRUARY. WE PROPOSE TO RECOMMEND ANSWERS TO SUPPLEMENTARIES IN THE FOLLOWING LINES:-
(A) ARE WE SATISFIED WITH THE PROGRESS BEING MADE BY ICAC? YES. I HAVE BEEN IMPRESSED BY THE PROGRESS MADE BY THE COMMISSION DURING ITS FIRST YEAR OF OPERATION.
(B) IN VIEW OF THE EXTENT OF CORRUPTION IN THE COLONY SHOULD NOT AN ENQUIRY FROM THE UK BE SET UP DIRECTLY BY HMG? THE
INDEPENDENT COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION SHOULD BE GIVEN THE
OPPORTUNITY TO SHOW RESULTS. DURING MY RECENT VISIT TO THE
COLONY I WAS IMPRESSED WITH THE PROGRESS THAT IS BEING ACHIEVED, (C) WHY DID THE ATTORNEY GENERAL NOT PROSECUTE IN THE () CASES DROPPED BY HIS OFFICE?
(D) HOW MANY OF THE PROSECUTIONS BROUGHT SO FAR HAVE BEEN AGAINST
POLICE OFFICERS?
(E) ALLEGATIONS THAT 90 PER CENT OF THE HONG KONG POLICE ARE
CORRUPT. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO BE PRECISE IN THIS MATTER. ANY FIGURE
IS SPECULATIVE. I HAVE EVERY CONFIDENCE IN THE INTEGRITY OF THE.
MAJORITY OF PUBLIC SERVANTS IN HONG KONG.
(F) ICAC'S ORIGIN.
THE GOVERNOR SET UP THE INDEPENDENT COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION
FOLLOWING THE JUDICIAL ENQUIRY CONDUCTED BY SIR ALASTAIR BLAIR- KERR, A JUDGE OF THE HIGH COURT, WHOME HE HAD APPOINTED, IN 1973,
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