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15.3.90 A POLICE LAUNCH WAS INFORMED THAT A HONG KONG FISHING
VESSEL HAD BEEN BOARDED BY SOME CUSTOMS OFFICERS, 600 YARDS NORTH OF TAI A CHAU, JUST INSIDE HONG KONG WATERS. IN RESPONDING, THE POLICE LAUNCH LOCATED THE HONG KONG FISHING VESSEL AND FOUND THREE
CHINESE UNIFORMED MEN ON BOARD. THE FISHING VESSEL IGNORED ORDERS
GIVEN BY THE POLICE LAUNCH TO STOP OR ALTER COURSE. THE POLICE
LAUNCH OBSERVED THE HONG KONG FISHING VESSEL LEAVING WATERS.
(RAISED WITH NCNA ON 16 MARCH. NO RESPONSE SO FAR.)
30.3.90
HONG KONG
A POLICE LAUNCH LOCATED A CPV TOWING A CHINESE
REGISTERED VESSEL AT SHUM WAN EAST ENTRANCE OF ABERDEEN HARBOUR, THREE AND A HALF KILOMETRES INSIDE HONG KONG WATERS. THE CPV
REFUSED TO STOP AND IGNORED ALL THE SIGNALS GIVEN BY THE POLICE LAUNCH. AT LAST A BOARDING PARTY BOARDED THE CHINESE REGISTERED
VESSEL BEING TOWED. THE CPV UNIFORMED MEN ON BOARD THE CHINESE
REGISTERED VESSEL TOLD THE BOARDING PARTY THAT THEIR CPV HAD ARRESTED THE CHINESE REGISTERED VESSEL OUTSIDE HONG KONG WATERS BUT BECAUSE THEY HAD TO REPAIR SOME MINOR DEFECTS OF THE CPV, THEY HAD COME INTO HONG KONG WATERS. THEY THEN LEFT HONG KONG WATERS WITH
THE CHINESE VESSEL.
(RAISED WITH NCNA ON 12 APRIL. SO FAR NO RESPONSE.)
3.4.90 A HONG KONG FISHING VESSEL WITH A CARGO OF 45 TV SETS WAS
SIGHTED BEING INTERCEPTED BY A CPV AND BOARDED BY FIVE CHINESE UNIFORMED MEN, 400 YARDS SOUTH OF WANG CHAU, 13 KMS INSIDE HONG KONG WATERS. ON SEEING THE POLICE LAUNCH, THE FIVE MEN RETURNED TO THEIR CPV WHICH FOLLOWED THE HONG KONG FISHING VESSEL. THE POLICE
LAUNCH TOLD THE OFFICER IN CHARGE OF THE CPV THAT THEY SHOULD LEAVE HONG KONG WATERS AND THE HONG KONG FISHING VESSEL WOULD BE
DEALT WITH BY THE HONG KONG POLICE. THE CPV LEFT THEREAFTER.
(RAISED WITH NCNA ON 24 APRIL. NO RESPONSE SO FAR.)
24.4.90
AN OPERATION WAS MOUNTED AGAINST SMUGGLING OF VEHICLES
FROM HONG KONG TO CHINA. POLICE VESSELS INTERCEPTED A CHINESE REGISTERED VESSEL WITH SEVEN STOLEN TOYOTA CROWN CARS AND TWO CHINESE UNIFORMED MEN ON BOARD, 1/2 KM OFF THE HONG KONG AT TAI SHUI HANG, DEEP BAY. BOTH MEN DREW THEIR AUTOMATIC PISTOLS FROM
HOLSTERS AND POINTED AT THE POLICE OFFICERS. THE POLICE REVEALED
THEIR IDENTIFY AND THE PISTOLS WERE RETURNED TO HOLSTERS. THE TWO
CHINESE UNIFORMED MEN'S IDENTITY CARDS SHOWED THAT ONE WAS AN OFFICER OF THE NAM TAU ANTI-SMUGGLING OFFICE AND THE OTHER WAS THE
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