Tuesday, November 27, 1973
NEW GOVERNMENT MACHINERY TO CURB DRUG PROBLEM
Streamlined ACAN takes on advisory role next January 1
A streamlined Action Committee Against Narcotics (ACAN)
on January 1 will become the government's sole channel of advice on
all policy matters relating to the drive against drug abuse and drug
trafficking.
Announcing this today, the Commissioner for Narcotics, Mr.
N. G. Rolph, said that the move was part of the intensified anti-drug
measures outlined by the Governor, Sir Murray MacLehose, in his
annual review of Hong Kong affairs in the Legislative Council last
October 17,
Mr. Rolph said that for its new advisory role, membership of
ACAN would be cut from 20 to 12.
He said the 12-member committee would be made up of seven
senior government officials and five community leaders.
The seven officials are: The Secretary for Security; the
Director of Medical and Health Services; the Director of Commerce and
Industry, in his capacity as Commissioner of the Freventive Service; the
Commissioner of Police; the Director of Social Welfare; the Commissioner
of Frisons; and the Commissioner for Narcotics.
The five community leaders are: The senior Unofficial
Member of the Executive Council, Sir Albert Rodrigues (chairman);
an Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council, Mrs. C. J. Symons; and
three individuals specially appointed by the Governor the Director of
the Lutheran World Federation, the Rev. K. L. Stumpf; the secretary of
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