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香港政府
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DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
DIGIDAY, JUNE 24, 1974
PREVENTIVE SERVICE KEEPS UP PRESSURE AGAINST
ILLICIT DRUG ACTIVITIES
PREVENTIVE SERVICE OFFICERS ARE CONTINUING TO KEEP UP THE
IN LAND AND SEA PRESSURE AGAN:ST ILLICIT DRUG ACTIVITIES. OPERATIONS LAST MONTH THE SERVICE SEIZED DANGEROUS DRUGS WORTH HORE THAN $363,000 AT CURRENT STREET PRICES.
THE QUANTITY SEIZED TOTALLED 48 LDS OF CRUGS OF VARIOUS TYPES AND NEARLY FIVE LITRES OF OPIVII SOLUTICH.
A TOTAL OF 140 SEIZURES VERE MADE, OF WHICH 106 VERE ON LAND, 22 ON THE OUTER ISLANDS, 10 ON OCEAN-GOING VESSELS, ONE ON A LIGHTER AND ONE ON A MOTOR-COAT. THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE ARRESTED TOTALLED 340.
DRUGS NETTED DURING THE MONTH INCLUDED THE FIRST EVER SEIZURES IN HONG KONG OF THE EXTRACT OF CANNABIS, COM:0LY CALLED LIQUID HASH. THE SEIZURE WAS NADE WHEN A PASSENGER ARRIVING AT KAI TAK WAS SEARCHED DY PREVENTIVE SERVICE OFFICERS. THE PASSENGER ALSO HAD
KE IN HIS FOSSESSION A QUANTITY OF CANNABIS ADD CANNABIS RESIN. APPEARED IN COURT AND WAS FINED $12,000 eON THREE MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT
THE PREVENTIVE SERVICE HAS RECENTLY ACQUIRED A NEW +DRUG DECTECTOR+ - A DOG CALLED OLIVER WHO HAS EZE!! SPECIALLY TRAINED TO SNIFF OUT NARCOTICS.
IT IS HOPED THAT HIS SENSITIVE NOSE VILL PROVE MOST USEFUL TO TIÊ SERVICE IN THEIR COI TINUED DRIVE TO CURD ILLEGAL NARCOTIC ACTIVITIES.
AGAINST ILLICIT DISTILLING.
OTHER PREVENTIVE SERVICE OPERATIONS LAST MONTH INCLUDED ACTION
THEIR EFFORTS RESULTED IN THE SEIZURE OF FOUR ILLICIT STILLS AND THE DESTRUCTION OF EARLY 3,000 GALLONS OF FERMENTING MATERIAL.
SEVEN RAIDS WERE CARRIED OUT BY OFFICERS OF THE COPYRIGHT UNIT DURING THE MONTH RESULTING IN THE SEIZURE OF 5.354 PIRATED MUSIC TAPES, 1,138 GRAMOPHONE RECORDS, 58 PIRATED COOKS AND 11 TAPE RECORDERS. TEN CONVICTIONS FOR COPYRIGHT OFFELICES VERE OBTAINED IN THE COUNTS AND THE TOTAL FINGS IMPOSED ALGUNTED TO $52,700.
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