TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1988
"AS
STAFF'S REGARDS
CONCERN OVER THEIR FUTURE PROMOTION BEING ACTIVELY CONSIDERED WITHIN
.PROSPECTS AND TRAINING, THESE ARE THE ADMINISTRATION, MR LEE SAID.
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IT MIGHT TAKE SOME
HE SAID THAT AS THE ISSUES WERE COMPLEX, TIME BEFORE THE ADMINISTRATION WOULD COME UP WITH DETAILED PROPOSALS.
"HOWEVER,
THESE
PROPOSALS
WILL ВЕ
CONSULTATION BEFORE ANY DECISION IS TAKEN,
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SUBJECT HE SAID.
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FULL STAFF
"IN THE MEANTIME, STAFF ARE ENCOURAGED TO EXPRESS AS TO HOW THE VARIOUS ISSUES MAY BEST BE RESOLVED.'
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DRUG MENACE INCREASING WORLDWIDE
THEIR VIEWS
OF
MORE SERIOUS THAN EVER THE DRUG MENACE WORLDWIDE IS GETTING NOWADAYS, AS IS EVIDENCED BY A GLOBAL UPWARD TREND IN THE SEIZURES VARIOUS TYPES OF DRUGS OVER THE PAST DECADE.
OF COMMISSIONER THE DEPUTY
CUSTOMS AND EXCISE, MR TONG COMMENTING ON THE WORLD KANG-SING, SAID THIS TODAY (TUESDAY) WHILE DRUG SITUATION AT A MEETING OF THE CITY LIONS CLUB OF HONG KONG.
NATIONS
UNITED MR TONG POINTED OUT THAT ACCORDING TO STATISTICS OF THE
COMMISSION ON NARCOTIC DRUGS,
GLOBAL DRUG SEIZURES REACHED SOME 7,000 METRIC INCLUDING OPIUM, CANNABIS AND COCAINE TONS IN 1985.
ONE-FOLD
"IN COMPARISON WITH THE FIGURES FOR 1975, THERE WAS A
A CANNABIS,
SEVEN-FOLD INCREASE IN ODD INCREASE IN THE SEIZURE OF
HE ADDED. HEROIN AND EVEN A 22-FOLD INCREASE IN COCAINE,
TONG STRESSED TURNING TO THE SITUATION IN HONG KONG, MR THE GOVERNMENT HAD EXERTED ITS UTMOST EFFORTS OVER THE YEARS TO
YEARS. SPENT MORE AGAINST THE DRUG MENACE, AND HAD, IN RECENT $300 MILLION ANNUALLY ON ITS ANTI-NARCOTIC CAMPAIGN.
THAT
FIGHT
THAN
"DRUG SEIZURES BY CUSTOMS AND THE POLICE AMOUNTED TO OVER
345 KG OF
NO. MILLION LAST YEAR, INCLUDING 92 KG OF HEROIN BASE,
OF CANNABIS AND 167 KG HEROIN, 145 KG OF NO. 4 HEROIN, 359 KG OPIUM.
$300
3
OF
"THE NUMBER OF PERSONS ARRESTED FOR TAKING DANGEROUS DRUGS EXCEEDED 11,000, OF WHICH 5,800 SERIOUS DRUG OFFENCES.
OR WERE
TRAFFICKING PROSECUTED
IN
FOR
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