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years have in any way prevented the war against triads continuing.
Mrs. Pauline Ng :-I am very glad to know that many departments have assisted
in this particular field. Could I ask what has the Education Department done
in trying to stop infiltration of such elements into schools?
His Excellency the President :-Mrs. Ng, I think you might put that question down
to the Secretary for Education and Manpower unless he is prepared to answer
straightaway.
The Attorney General :-Sir, I think I can do a little on his behalf if he is
willing to allow me. I can assure Mrs. Ng that during the past three years the
police has been supported by the Education Department in organising a series of
seminars on youth gang problems. In June/July this year for example some
11,000 school principals, headmasters and teachers attended those seminars.
There are of course also Junior Police Call Clubs in 257 secondary schools and
in 103 primary schools. The Education Department, indeed operating at the
request of the Fight Crime Committee, is presently working on a plan that
would introduce a systemetic programme of in-service training on moral
education that would give schools more advice on organising guidance and
counselling systems that will produce pamphlets on social services available to
parents and students and which will get universities to run more part-time in-
service training courses on students guidance and counselling. The problem
fundamental with the young is to strip triads of their glamorous appeal. Indeed
there is presently an advertisement which is all round Hong Kong of a popular
film which glamorises the fraternal elements of triads and yet displays great
violence and appeals to the public to come and see the link in that particular
film. It's that kind of glamorous appeal which seems to me to be the
responsibility of the entire community to combat.
Mr. Yeung Po-kwan :-Sir, I think the major part of the question I wish to ask
has been fully answered by the Attorney General, but I'd just like to ask whether
there has been any indication or evidence that there is a growing involvement
of triad activities in schools recently?
The Attorney General :-Sir, there is no evidence of a growing activity of