MAY 31, 1985
SAUDI PRINCE PRAISES K FL
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A SAUDI ARABIAN PRINCE WAS SO IMPRESSED BY HONG KONG POLICE EFFICIENCY DURING A RECENT VISIT, THAT HE HAS DONATED $25,000 TO THE POLICE WELFARE FUND.
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE SAUD BIN NAIF BIN ABDULAZIZ AL SAUD AND HID ENTOURAGE OF 20, INCLUDING TWO MORE PRINCES, APPARENTLY ENJOYED HIS FIRST VISIT TO HONG KONG SO MUCH THAT HE STAYED ON MUCH LONGER THAN HE HAD ORIGINALLY INTENDED.
ON BEHALF OF THE PRINCE, THE DONATION WAS PRESENTED TO THE DIRECTOR OF PERSONNEL AND TRAINING, MR KEITH LOMAS, BY THE GENERAL MANAGER OF ARABIAN GULF INVESTMENTS (FAR EAST) LIMITED, MR D.F.J. PATERSON.
MR PATERSON SAID THAT THE 30-YEAR-OLD PRINCE, WHO IS A NEPHEW OF SAUDI ARABIA'S KING FAISAL, HAD BEEN MAKING A TOUR OF THE FAR EAST WITH HIS ENTOURAGE WHEN HE WAS PERSUADED TO COME TO HONG KONG BY ONE OF THE DIRECTORS OF HIS COMPANY.
''AT FIRST HE ONLY INTENDED TO STAY THREE DAYS. BUT THIS WAS EXTENDED, AND EXTENDED, AND EXTENDED, TO EIGHT DAYS," SAID MR PATERSON.
THE VISITORS HAD LIKED THEIR HOTEL, THE METICULOUS ATTENTION GIVEN TO THEIR SECURITY, AND ALL OF THE ARRANGEMENTS THE GOVERNMENT HAD MADE FOR THEM.
THEY WENT TO THE RACES AT SHA TIN AND TO MACAU, AND DID LOTS OF SHOPPING.
''THE PRINCE THOROUGHLY APPRECIATED THE EFFICIENCY OF THE POLICE FORCE AND THE WAY THE POLICE HANDLED EVERYTHING DURING HIS STAY," SAID MR PATERSON.
DRUG PREVENTION THROUGH EDUCATION STRESSED
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STRENGTHENING PREVENTIVE DRUG EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS COULD
DETER YOUNG PEOPLE FROM GETTING INVOLVED IN DRUGS AFTER THEY LEFT SCHOOL WHEN THEY WOULD BE MORE VULNERABLE, THE COMMISSIONER FOR NARCOTICS, MR GORDON MORTIMER, SAID TODAY (FRIDAY).
+FOLLOWING THE SETTING UP OF THE SCHOOL TALKS TEAM IN THE NARCOTICS DIVISION EARLY LAST YEAR, A TOTAL OF 367 DRUG EDUCATION TALKS HAVE BEEN GIVEN TO OVER 106 000 STUDENTS IN 201 SECONDARY SCHOOLS, HE SAID.
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