SUNDAY, JULY 24, 1988
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PUBLIC URGED TO REPORT TRIAD ACTIVITIES
TRIADS CAN ONLY BE ERADICATED WHEN MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC REPORT THEIR ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES TO THE POLICE, A MONG KOK DISTRICT BOARD MEMBER SAID TODAY (SUNDAY).
ADDRESSING THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE ANTI-TRIAD CAMPAIGN ORGANISED BY THE MONG KOK DISTRICT FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEE, MRS GRACE TAM, CHAIRMAN OF THE CAMPAIGN, SAID THAT COMBATTING TRIADS WAS A
LONG AND DIFFICULT BATTLE.
"IT IS NOT ENOUGH JUST TO RELY ON THE POLICE ALONE ΤΟ ACHIEVE SUCCESS; MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC HAVE TO PARTICIPATE IN FIGHTING CRIME BY REPORTING TRIAD ACTIVITIES, SHE SAID.
"I BELIEVE THAT BY JOINING HANDS WE CAN BEAT THE TRIADS."
MRS TAM POINTED OUT THAT THE GOVERNMENT WAS CONCERNED ABOUT THE HARM CAUSED BY TRIADS AND HAD BEEN MAKING USE OF ALL AVAILABLE RESOURCES TO COUNTERACT THE THREAT.
THE FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEE HAD MADE "ANTI-TRIAD" THE MAIN THEME OF THIS YEAR'S PUBLICITY PROGRAMME, AND THE MONG KOK DISTRICT FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEE HAD ORGANISED A SERIES OF ACTIVITIES TO PUT THE IDEA ACROSS.
AFTER HER SPEECH, MRS TAM AND THREE OTHER GUESTS, MR AUGUSTINE CHENG (MONG KOK DISTRICT OFFICER), MR LEUNG FUNG-SHUN (ACTING POLICE DISTRICT COMMANDER) AND MR JACOB CHAN (CHAIRMAN OF THE DISTRICT FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEE), PRICKED A BUNDLE OF BLACK BALLOONS TO SYMBOLISE THE ERADICATION OF TRIADS.
TO DRIVE HOME THE ANTI-TRIAD MESSAGE, JUNIOR POLICE CALL MEMBERS GAVE AWAY BALLOONS ΤΟ PEOPLE IN THE CROWD WATCHING THE OPENING CEREMONY WHICH WAS HELD AT THE JUNCTION OF SOY STREET AND SA1 YEUNG CHOI STREET.
STICKERS то THE DISTRICT'S
THEY THEN DISTRIBUTED ANTI-TRIAD SHOP OWNERS TO ENCOURAGE THEM TO REPORT TRIAD NUISANCES OR BLACKMAIL.
A DISCO-NIGHT WILL BE HELD IN MONG KOK IN NOVEMBER TO FURTHER PUBLICISE THE ANTI-TRIAD MESSAGE.
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