P.R.H. 7 (REVISED) 4000001
HONG KONG
DAILY
INFORMATION SERVICES
INFORMATION BULLETIN
Thursday, June 29, 1972
MR. N. G. ROLPH APPOINTED COMMISSIONER FOR NARCOTICS
The Government today announced the appointment of Mr. Norman G.
Rolph, Deputy Commissioner of Police, as Hong Kong's first Commissioner
for Narcotics.
Mr. Rolph will assume his new duties in August, 1972.
He has lived and worked on Hong Kong Island, in Kowloon and in
the New Territories during his many years in Hong Kong and has a wide and
extensive knowledge of the complex drug and crime problems.
Mr. Rolph will work in the Secretariat for Home Affairs and will
be responsible to the Secretary for Home Affairs. In general terms he will
have an overall co-ordinating role concerning the activities of every
Government Department and the various Voluntary Agencies involved in the
fight against the illicit drug traffic in all its forms, including the
rehabilitation of drug addicts.
A Government spokesman said today: "Government fully recognises
that the attainment of these aims will be no easy matter and will be of a
long term nature given the scope and size of the problems to be faced.
By its appointment of a Commissioner who will be able to devote his full time
to these matters, Government has shown it is determined that the serious
criminal and social problems connected with dangerous drugs will be tackled
with the utmost vigour."
/Mr. Rolph