MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1935
+COMMUNITY GOOD SENSE + BEHIND STABLE SOCIETY
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HONG KONG WAS A STABLE SOCIETY ONLY BECAUSE THE COMMUNITY HAD THE GOOD SENSE TO RECOGNISE THE DANGER AND THE PROBLEMS CAUSED BY CHANGES THAT WERE TAKING PLACE IN THE SOCIETY, THE CHIEF SECRETARY, SIR DAVID AKERS-JONES SAID TODAY (MONDAY).
SPEAKING AT THE FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEE/DISTRICT FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEE CONFERENCE, HE SAID TOO MUCH LITTER AND NEGLECT LED TO THE 'CLEAN HONG KONG CAMPAIGN'; CORRUPTION LED TO THE COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION; THE PROBLEMS OF DRUGS LED TO THE ACTION COMMITTEE AGAINST NARCOTICS, AND THE RISING TIDE OF CRIME IN THE EARLY SEVENTIES LED TO THE FIGHT CRIME MOVEMENT AND THE FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEES,
+HONG KONG FOUGHT BACK AGAINST THE FORCE OF DECADENCE, DISEASES, CORRUPTION AND CRIME, SIR DAVID SAID.
THE +NEVER-ENDING NATURE OF THE FIGHT AGAINST CRIME WAS AS TRUE OF HONG KONG AS IT WAS ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD, AS TRADITIONS, LOYALTIES AND MORAL VALUES CHANGED IN RESPONSE TO CHANGES IN THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT AND CHANGES IN OCCUPATIONS AND ACTIVITIES.
+WE LIVE IN TIMES OF RAPID AND RELENTLESS CHANGE, HE SAID.
SIR DAVID SAID THE FIGHT AGAINST CRIME WAS NOT ONE OF SENSATIONAL VICTORIES, BUT WAS +A WAR OF ATTRITION+,
IT INVOLVED STEADY, UNRELENTING PRESSURE BY A WELL EQUIPPED POLICE FORCE WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE COMMUNITY.
*DISTRICT FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEES PROVIDE THE VITAL LINK BETWEEN THE POLICE FORCE AND THE PUBLIC THEY SERVE, HE SAID.
SPEAKING OF ACTIONS TO COUNTER TRIAD ACTIVITIES, SIR DAVID SAID THE +WORKING GROUP ON GANGS+ OF THE CENTRAL FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEE HAD BEEN EXAMINING THE PROBLEM, AND WAS REVIEWING THE LAW TO SEE HOW AND WHERE IT MIGHT NEED TO BE STRENGTHENED.
+THIS IS NOT EASY AND A BALANCE WILL HAVE TO BE STRUCK BETWEEN THE NEED TO ARREST AND PUNISH THE CRIMINAL AND TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL, HE SAID.
+ BUT ULTIMATELY WE AS A COMMUNITY WILL HAVE TO DECIDE WHAT WE WANT TO DO.+
ON JUVENILE DELINQUENCY AND YOUTH CRIME, SIR DAVID POINTED OUT THAT SENSIBLE AND EARLY ACTION AT SCHOOL MIGHT TURN POTENTIAL CRIMINALS OF TODAY INTO THE GOOD CITIZENS OF TOMORROW.
HE THANKED MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEES FOR THE GOOD WORK THEY HAD DONE AND SAID HE LOOKED FORWARD TO STRENGTHENED COOPERATION IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CRIME.
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