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employers and employees, and civil servants. This was the second year in which the department launched a special programme to involve volunteers in community relations work. About 200 young people from various walks of life were recruited and trained to undertake anti-corruption projects. In response to International Youth Year, a Special Programme for Youth was organised by the commission together with the Outstanding Young Persons Association. Among the 755 young people who attended a jamboree, 300 formed themselves into 42 teams for social service projects. Also, the department particip- ated actively in the Community Involvement Badge Scheme of the Scout Association of Hong Kong in providing information and training programmes on anti-corruption work for the Scouts, Venture Scouts and Rover Scouts.
On the education front, great emphasis was placed by the department's Public Education Office on liaison with students of the Colleges of Education. A major project for the year was a 'Design an Aid' project organised jointly by the office and four teacher training institutes and sponsored by the Lions Club of Victoria. Over 200 student participants designed some 30 teaching packages complete with lesson plan and appropriate aids on the parts of the primary school social studies syllabus which particularly lent themselves to the inculcation of moral values. The project culminated in an exhibition which was attended by over 1 000 primary school teachers and student teachers.
In its efforts to reach the public through the mass media, the commission independently produced Vanguard II, a television drama series depicting the challenges and achievements of ICAC investigations. The series was aimed at further strengthening the public's confidence in, and their support for, the ICAC. It was shown on a Chinese channel in May and June, capturing an average viewership of 780 000, which made it the top programme on the channel.
Outstanding results were also achieved by the ICAC with a new anti-corruption advertising package. In the second Annual Creative Awards Competition held by the Association of Accredited Advertising Agents of Hong Kong, the ICAC captured the gold and silver awards in the public service television commercial section as well as the gold award in the poster section.
Government Laboratory
The Government Laboratory provides an essential scientific support service to law enforcement authorities, including the Royal Hong Kong Police Force, the Customs and Excise Service, the Immigration Department and the Independent Commission Against Corruption.
Forensic Science
The Forensic Science Division of the laboratory is heavily engaged in the investigation of such diverse crimes as arson, burglary, counterfeiting, deception, forgery of documents, fraud, hit-and-run traffic accidents, homicide, illegal manufacture and possession of drugs of abuse, rape and robbery. Scene-of-crime examinations played an important part in the service with over 500 scenes attended by laboratory staff during the year. The workload of the division has continued to rise and the urgent nature of much of the work calls for the use of rapid analytical techniques. To this end, new instrumentation has been installed for the semi-automated examination of narcotics, and organs and body fluids in cases of unknown cause of death.
Following the attachment of a laboratory officer to the Metropolitan Police Forensic Science Laboratory in London for training in traffic accident reconstruction techniques,