SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1975
COLLECTIVE ACTION IN COMBATING DRUGS STRESSED
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THE COMMISSIONER FOR NARCOTICS, MR. E.I. LEE, TODAY EMPHASISED THE IMPORTANCE OF COLLECTIVE ACTION IN THE FIGHT AGAINST DRUG TRAFFICKING AND SAID THAT CO-OPERATION +MUST FORM THE CORNERSTONE OF OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT EFFORTS.+
HE WELCOMED THE INCREASING LIAISON BETWEEN THE PREVENTIVE SERVICE AND THE NARCOTICS BUREAU OF THE ROYAL HONG KONG POLICE FORCE AND NOTED THAT THE RECENT JOINT OPERATIONS AND THE EXCHANGE OF INTELLIGENCE BETWEEN THE TWO ANTI-DRUG BODIES AMPLY TESTIFIED THE IMPORTANCE OF SUCH CO-OPERATION.
MR. LEE WAS ADDRESSING 67 GRADUATES OF THE NEW PREVENTIVE
THE RECRUITS WERE THE SERVICE TRAINING SCHOOL AT TAI LAM CHUNG. FIRST BATCH TO GRADUATE FROM THE NEW SCHOOL WHICH OPENED IN JUNE LAST YEAR.
MR. LEE PAID TRIBUTE TO THE PREVENTIVE SERVICE FOR THEIR PERSISTENT AND EFFECTIVE EFFORTS AGAINST THE ILLEGAL DRUG TRADE NOTABLY FOR THE PART THEY PLAYED IN VIRTUALLY ELIMINATING DRUG TRAFFICKING AND DIVANS IN MA SHAN AND OTHER BLACK SPOTS'.
+DESPITE YOUR SUCCESSES OF RECENT YEARS, HOWEVER, WE CANNOT AFFORD TO BE COMPLACENT OR TO ABATE OUR EFFORTS AGAINST THIS EVIL AND INHUMAN BUSINESS,+ HE STRESSED.
HE TOLD THE GRADUATES THAT THEY WOULD HAVE TO EXERCISE ALL THEIR TRAINING AND INTELLIGENCE IF THEY WERE TO COMBAT DRUG SMUGGLING AND DRUG TRAFFICKING SUCCESSFULLY.
MR. LEE WAS CONFIDENT, HOWEVER, THAT THEY HAD BEEN WELL TRAINED FOR THE TASK.
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