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Thursday, March 21, 1974
INCREASED EFFORTS BY PREVENTIVE SERVICE
To Suppress Narcotics Traffic
The 1,000-strong Preventive Service is straining its resources
to the limit in an increased effort to prevent and suppress the traffic
in illicit narcotics.
This assurance was given today by the Director of Commerce and
Industry, Mr. David Jordan, in an address to the Kowloon Rotary Club
on the work of the Preventive Service, of which he is Commissioner,
He pointed out that during the past two years Preventive Service
personnel have been responsible for seizures of dangerous drugs valued
at just over $50 million at street level.
Both the police and the Preventive Service, he said, had achieved
some success in the battle against narcotica, but there was still a
very long way to go.
"The traffic in narcotics has to be tackled at every stage
from the cultivation of the opium poppy to the treatment and rehabilitation
of the addict," he added.
Mr. Jordan said that the White Paper issued by the government
last week re-affirmed its determination to do everything it can to
eradicate this evil from our society, and the Preventive Service would
continue to play its part.
But if the government agencies concerned were to succeed in
this long campaign," support and help from the public was needed.
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