APPENDIX 3 (Chapter 5)

DRUG SEIZURES, HEROIN LABORATORIES DETECTED AND PROSECUTIONS AND CONVICTIONS OF DRUG OFFENCES CALENDAR YEAR 1965 — 1976

Drugs seized to nearest k.g.

Prosecutions-Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (No. of people prosecuted)

Heroin

Labs

Other DD

Conviction

Year

Opium

Morphine

Heroin Cannabis Detected

Sect. 4

Sect. 6

Sect. 7

Offences

Total

Total

1965

2,973

185

35

2

285

8

42

12,744

13,079

12,519

1966

4,956

407

25

1

215

6

58

14,058

14,337

13,724

1967

2,177

120

27

3

137

4

56

9,877

10,074

9,637

1968

1,868

81

30

2

3

168

2

43

13,465

13,678

12,923

1969

4,772

187

10

13

2

89

7

859

12,980

13,935

13,068

1970

399

77

14

24

2

33

6

1,228

12,638

13,905

13,358

1971

5,583

300

55

51

3

14

19

1,273

14,035

15,341

14,532

1972

5,118

551

73

15

7

8

37

1,548

15,123

16,716

15,954

1973

2,328

388

69

17

3

1

10

1,558

18,370

19,939

19,540

1974

4,735

285

95

6

7

58

13

1,714

16,647

18,432

17,743

1975

422

143

186

54

8

172

38

1,824

11,831

13,865

13,210

1976

3,553

291

164

87

11

368

15

3,103

9,427

12,913

11,657

Note:

(a) Section 4-Trafficking in a dangerous drug.

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(b) Section 6--Manufacturing a dangerous drug (heroin).

(c) Section 7-Possession of a dangerous drug for the purpose of trafficking. (d) Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Cap. 134, enacted January 1969.

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