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FM HONG KONG 281125Z
CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL
HKK 382/16
2 8 OCT 1977
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TO FLASH F C O TELNO, 1070 OF 28 OCTOBER 1977 INFO FLASH HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE LONDON.
ROYAL HONG KONG POLICE FORCE.
DURING THIS WEEK A GROUP OF POLICE RANK AND FILE AND NCO'S NUMBERING INITIALLY ABOUT 100, MANY OF WHOM ARE CURRENTLY UNDER INTERDICTION FOR CORRUPTION OFFENCES, JOINED IN A PETITION TO THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE COMPLAINING THAT ICAC INVESTIGATIONS AND ENQUIRIES INTO CORRUPT PRACTICES WERE UNFAIRLY CONDUCTED AND AMOUNTED TO PERSECUTION OF THE POLICE.
2. THE LEADERS OF THIS MOVEMENT, 4 SERGEANTS AND ONE DETECTIVE CONSTABLE, ARE ALL UNDER INTERDICTION WHILST THEIR CONDUCT IN CONNECTION WITH THE YAU MA TEI DANGEROUS DRUG CONSPIRACY IS INVESTIGATED.
3. ON WEDNESDAY EVENING, 26 OCTOBER, APPROXIMATELY 250 POLICEMEN, PLUS SOME OF THEIR WIVES AND FAMILIES, GATHERED IN THE COURTYARD OF A BLOCK OF POLICE MARRIED QUARTERS AT WONG TAI SIN TO SUPPORT
THOSE WHO HAD DRAFTED THE PETITION REFERRED TO ABOVE.
4. AT THIS GATHERING A LIST OF ABOUT 250 NAMES OF RANK AND FILE AND NCO'S SAID TO SUPPORT THE PETITION, WAS PRODUCED. THE PETITION WAS PRESENTED TO THE COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE ON THE
AFTERNOON OF WEDNESDAY 26 OCTOBER.
5. ON THE AFTERNOON OF THURSDAY 27 OCTOBER, SACP SCHOUTEN (THE SENIOR SACP, AND NO 3 IN THE FORCE) MET THE FIVE PETITIONERS, ON THE INSTRUCTIONS OF THE COMMISSIONER. HE ASSURED THEM THAT
THE COMMISSIONER SHARED THE CONCERN OF THE RANK AND FILE THAT
PROPER PROCEDURES SHOULD BE FOLLOWED IN ICAC INVESTIGATIONS AND
RECOGNISED THE STRAIN WHICH THESE INVESTIGATIONS PLACED ON
INDIVIDUALS AND THE FORCE.
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