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6. AT THE CONCLUSION OF THIS MEETING, SCHOUTEN INFORMED THE DELEGATES THAT THE COMMISSIONER WOULD NOT BE SEEING THEM AS HE WAS THE COMMISSIONER'S REPRESENTATIVE. THE PETITIONERS SAID THAT TY WOULD HOLD A FURTHER MEETING AMONGST THEMSELVES.
7. LATER THE SAME DAY, A MEETING WAS ARRANGED BY THE PETITIONERS AT THE POLICE SPORTS ASSOCIATION, BOUNDARY STREET. APPROXIMATELY 3,000 POLICE ATTENDED. THEY WERE MAINLY R AND F, BUT INCLUDED SOME MEMBERS OF THE INSPECTORATE AND GAZETTED OFFICERS. THEY WERE A CROSS SECTION OF PERSONNEL FROM NEARLY ALL UNITS AND COMMANDS, INCLUDING BOTH LONG SERVING OFFICERS AND RELATIVELY RECENTLY RECRUITED LOCAL AND OVERSEAS OFFICERS. THEY WERE ALL OFF DUTY. THE MEETING WAS ENTIRELY ORDERLY, THE MEDIA ATTENDED AND IT WAS DECIDED THAT THOSE PRESENT WHO WOULD BE OFF DUTY AT THE TIME WOULD MEET OUTSIDE THE CITY HALL ON HONG KONG iSLAND ON THE MORNING OF FRIDAY 28 OCTOBER, AND SEEK AN INTERVIEW WITH THE COMMISSIONER.
8. AT ABOUT 9.00 THIS MORNING, ABOUT 2,000 OFF-DUTY POLICE OFFICERS IN CIVILIAN CLOTHES ASSEMBLED AS PLANNED AND WALKED TO POLICE HEADQUARTERS IN AN ORDERLY FASHION. WHEN THEY ARRIVED AT POLICE HQ, THEY WERE APPLAUDED BY THOSE ALREADY THERE.
9. THE FIVE PETITIONERS WERE THEN INTERVIEWED FIRST BY THE DCP AND THEN BY THE CP HIMSELF. THESE MEETINGS LASTED ABOUT AN HOUR. THE PETITIONERS BEHAVED COURTEOUSLY AT THE DISCUSSION, PUTTING THEIR POINTS THROUGH ONE SPOKESMAN. A SUMMARY OF THE AMAIN POINTS RAISED IN THE PETITION AND THE INTERVIEW IS CONTAINED
IN MIFT.
10. THE CP INFORMED THE PETITIONERS THAT THEIR REPRESENTATIONS WOULD BE SYMPATHETICALLY CONSIDERED AND THE PETITIONERS LEFT, MOST
OF THEIR SUPPORTERS THEN DISPERSED.
11. HOWEVER, A GROUP OF THE DEMONSTRATORS AT PHQ WENT TO ICAC HQ AT HUTCHISON HOUSE WHHICH IS HALF A MILE AWAY, WHERE THEY
ATTEMPTED TO GAIN ACCESS TO ICAC OFFICES. SOME ICAC OFFICERS TOOK ACTION TO PREVENT THIS AND A SCUFFLE ENSUED, IN THE CAUSE OF WHICH ABOUT FIVE ICAC OFFICERS SUFFERED SLIGHT INJURIES AND DAMAGE
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