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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1978
HE POINTED OUT THAT THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT ACAN IS HOLDING THREE DISTRICT CAMPAIGNS IN ONE YEAR. SINCE 1973, IT HAS BEEN CARRYING OUT ONE DISTRICT CAMPAIGN EACH YEAR.
EXPLAINING THE EXPANSION THIS YEAR, HE SAID: +WE ARE CONVINCED THAT A CAMPAIGN OF THIS KIND WHICH INVOLVES SUBSTANTIAL CO-OPERATION FROM THE DISTRICT COMMUNITY IS ONE OF THE MOST EFFECTIVE MEANS OF PUTTING ACROSS THE ANTI-DRUG MESSAGE.+
MR. LIU YUN-SUM SAID HE IS CONFIDENT THAT THE CAMPAIGN WILL ACHIEVE ITS DESIRED IMPACT.
+ IT HAS TAKEN US MORE THAN FIVE MONTHS OF HARD WORK TO ORGANISE THE CAMPAIGN AND WE HAVE MOBILISED THE MANPOWER AND OTHER RESOURCES OF PRACTICALLY ALL MAJOR ORGANISATIONS, SCHOOLS, YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTRES AND COMMERCE ASSOCIATIONS IN OUR DISTRICTS+ HE SAID.
DRUG SEIZURES BY CUSTOMS AND EXCISE SERVICE
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OFF ICERS' OF THE CUSTOMS AND EXCISE SERVICE SEIZED MORE THAN 130 KG OF DANGEROUS DRUGS WITH AN ESTIMATED RETAIL VALUE OF $14 MILLION ON THE ILLICIT MARKET, DURING THE FIRST SIX MONTHS THIS YEAR.
THE HAULS, DOUBLE THE QUANTITY FOR THE CORRESPONDING PERIOD LAST YEAR, CONSISTED OF 28.2 KG OF MORPHINE, 1.9 KG OF HEROIN (NO. 4), 42 KG OF HEROIN (NO. 3), 6 KG OF RAW OPIUM, 51 KG OF PREPARED OPIUM, 0.16 KG OF CANNABIS AND 0.7 KG OF HEROIN BASE.
IN CONNECTION WITH THESE SEIZURES, 536 PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH VARIOUS OFFENCES UNDER THE DANGEROUS DRUGS ORDINANCE.
A SPOKESMAN FOR THE CUSTOMS AND EXCISE SERVICE SAID: +THE DRUGS WERE SEIZED DURING SEARCHES ON PASSENGERS, LUGGAGES AND CARGO BY OUR OFFICERS AT THE AIRPORT, ON SHIPS ENTERING HONG KONG AND ON LAND.+
THE DRUGS ARE USUALLY CONCEALED IN FALSE COMPARTMENTS OF LUGGAGES, SEALED CANS OF GOODS OR STRAPPED AROUND THE LEGS OF THE COURIER.
DRUG SMUGGLERS ARE BECOMING SOPHISTICATED AND THE SPOKESMAN SAID THE LATEST METHOD DISCOVERED IS BY SOAKING TOWELS IN HEROIN SOLUTION.
+THESE HEROIN SOAKED TOWELS ARE THEN DRIED AND IF THEY WERE SUCCESSFULLY SMUGGLED INTO HONG KONG, THESE TOWELS ARE PUT INTO WATER AGAIN SO THAT THE DISSOLVED HEROIN CAN BE EXTRACTED,+ HE EXPLAINED.
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