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香港政府
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DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
Tuesday, November 21, 1972
PUBLIC SUPPORT NEEDED TO ELIMINATE DRUG PROBLEM
Hong Kong was described today as having one of the worst, "if not the
worst" opiate drug addiction problems in the world.
The Commissioner for Narcotics, Mr. Norman Rolph, making his first
public address since assuming his new office three months ago, said criminal
'statistics revealed that there must be at least one drug dependent person in
the community for every 70 people.
"The true figure is probably rather more depressing than this, but
what it is we will not know until the product of the new Central Registry (of
Drug Addicts) becomes available," he said.
Mr. Rolph described it as a "horrifying figure" and said it was a
"stain on the fair name of Hong Kong" for which each and everyone of us must
bear a share of the responsibility.
"That the illegal narcotics trade flourishes in Hong Kong is only
because the people of Hong Kong permit it to flourish."
He said it was the civic duty of all "right minded" people in Hong
Kong to report to the law enforcement agencies the existence of any illicit drug
activities they may know about or reasonably suspect.
"To do otherwise is to stab your community in the back by default."
/Mr. Rolph
Issued by Government Information Services, Beaconsfield House, Hong Kong. Tel: 5-233191