THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1988
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DECLINE IN VICE ACTIVITIES IN MONG KOK
SHOCK TACTICS AND STRONG ACTION BY MONG KOK CRIME FIGHTERS HAS CUT THE DISTRICT'S THREE MAJOR VICE ACTIVITIES BY HALF WITHIN A YEAR.
THE 12 MONTHS TO THE END OF FEBRUARY THIS YEAR MARKED A SIGNIFICANT DECLINE IN FISHBALL STALLS, UNLICENSED MASSAGE
ESTABLISHMENTS AND PORNOGRAPHIC VIDEO CENTRES.
BUT VICE STILL FLOURISHES IN ONE WOMAN BROTHELS, APARTMENT HOUSES, LADY BARBER SHOPS, ESCORT COMPANIES AND DANCE HALLS.
DISTRICT
CHIEF INSPECTOR LEUNG LAU-ON, POLICE MONG KOK OPERATIONS OFFICER, SAID "WE ARE PUTTING A STRONG EFFORT INTO THE FIGHT AGAINST CRIME INVOLVING WOMEN AND JUVENILES.
"DURING 1987 WB LAUNCHED OVER 6,000 RAIDS WHICH RESULTED IN
GIRLS 1,601 PERSONS BEING CHARGED, 148 UNDERAGED
BEING LOCATED AND 109 FOREIGN PROSTITUES BEING DISCOVERED.
"WE IDENTIFIED 639 ILLEGAL PREMISES AND DISMANTLED 1,654 SIGNBOARDS ADVERTISING PROSTITUTION."
BETWEEN NOVEMBER LAST YEAR AND THE END OF JANUARY THIS YEAR MONG KOK POLICE LOCATED 77 FOREIGN PROSTITUTES, MOSTLY FROM MALAYSIA,
THE FEVERISH THAILAND AND THE PHILIPPINES. AND IN
APPROACH OF THE LUNAR NEW YEAR A TOTAL OF 122 PROSTITUTES WERE
IN FEBRUARY
ALONE.
ARRESTED
THE SUCCESSFUL ELIMINATION OF VICE ESTABLISHMENTS FOLLOWED THE
SAID MR STEPPING UP OF WOMAN AND JUVENILE RAIDS FROM 30 TO 70 A DAY, LEUNG.
"BY DOING SO, WE HAVE LOCATED MORE
DISCOURAGED MORE PROSTITUTES AND
CUSTOMERS. SIGHBOARDS SERVED AS A GREAT DETERRENT AND THE POLICE ALSO BROUGHT RESULTS."
UNDERAGED GIRLS, MORE THE REMOVAL OF VICE
PRESENCE FREQUENT
OF
MR LEUNG SAID:
LAST YEAR
"THE WE
ON FIGHTING DANGEROUS DRUGS TRAFFICKING, COMMON DRUGS HERE ARE NUMBER THREE HEROIN AND MANDRAX. SEIZED OVER 4,600 GRAMS OF HEROIN AND PROSECUTED 413 PERSONS.
"THE DRUG