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FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1988
"TEN YEARS AGO THE POPULATION
WAS NEARLY EQUALLY DIVIDED BETWEEN CAUCASIANS AND LATINS WITH A SMALL ORIENTAL POPULATION, MOSTLY JAPANESE.
"TODAY AROUND 65 PER CENT OF OUR POPULATION OF NEARLY 70,000 IS CHINESE, PRIMARILY FROM TAIWAN, AND THERE HAS BEEN A LARGE INFLUX OF VIETNAMESE CHINESE.
"IT IS ONE OF THE HIGHEST CONCENTRATIONS OF CHINESE IN THE UNITED STATES AND IS DEVELOPING ITS OWN UNIQUE POLICE PROBLEMS.
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MR YEUNG ADDED: "ORGANISED CRIME IS A NEW SUBJECT TO US MONTEREY PARK. WE'VE HAD OUR LOCAL GANG PROBLEMS WITH LOCAL KIDS OTHERS BUT NO ORGANISED CRIME AS YOU KNOW IT IN HONG KONG.
IN AND
OF GROUPS AND
"WE WANT TO LEARN OF THE STRUCTURES, THE NAMES THE WAYS THEY OPERATE. IT'S A TOTALLY NEW FIELD TO US."
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ALTHOUGH MR YEUNG IS CURRENTLY ATTACHED TO HIS FORCE'9 PATROL BUREAU AND MR BACON ΤΟ THE TRAFFIC DIVISION, THRY ROTATE REGULARLY ON OTHER SPECIALIST DUTIES.
"WE'VE LEARNED A LOT IN A SHORT TIME," SAID MR BACON. 'WE HAVE EXCHANGED A LOT OF INTERESTING VIEWS WHICH WILL BE OF BENEFIT TO US IN OUR OPERATIONS AT HOME IN DEALING WITH ASIAN PROBLEMS."
THE TWO VISITING OFFICERS WRRE BRIEFED BY MR PETER LER, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, CRIME, AND VISITED THE ORGANISED AND SERIOUS GROUP, CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE BUREAU, NARCOTICS BUREAU AND FORMATIONS.
MR YEUNG SAID: "WE APPRECIATE THE HOSPITALITY WE RECEIVED FROM THE ROYAL HONG KONG POLICE AND THE INFORMATION AND WE HAVE HAD. 1 ONLY WISH WE COULD COME HERE MORE OFTEN.
CRIME OTHER
HAVE
HELP
MR BACON ADDED: "IT HAS BEEN AN ENJOYABLE AND VERY INFORMATIVE VISIT. ALTHOUGH WE ARE SEPARATED BY 6,000 MILES OF PACIFIC OCEAN THERE IS A SIMILARITY IN OUR ATTITUDES AND FEELINGS IT WAS A GOOD EXPERIENCE TO EXCHANGE INFORMATION AND PHILOSOPHIES."
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