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Similarly, the objective of your Drug Addiction Treatment
Centres is not punishment but treatment, and their record-of^.
success is remarkable by intemational standards.
It is also significant that an expert psychologist with wide
intemational experience is being recruited to guide the expansion of
the Department's psychological services and the development of ite
correctional programmės.
For all these reasons this change in name is therefore timely
and does justice to the many-sided work in this remarkable Department.
This is the last time I will meet the Department before my
departure, and I would like to record my admiration of its very high
standards, of its flexibility in confronting the very different
problems of our society that it exists to deal with, and of the constant
and successful efforts made to improve its services. I am proud to
note that their excellence has received wide international recognition.
I thank you again for giving me this opportunity to meet you
on parade, and to wish you continued success in the years ahead.
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