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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1989
ANTI-TRIAD ACTION A POLICE RESPONSIBILITY
BE INAPPROPRIATE AGAINST CORRUPTION
IT WOULD
COMMISSION ANTI-TRIAD LAW
ENFORCEMENT,
THE
то TRANSFER
THE (ICAC)
FOR SECRETARY
TO THE INDEPENDENT RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE HON SECURITY,
GEOFFREY BARNES, SAID IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
MR BARNES SAID REPLYING TO A QUESTION FROM THE HON ELSIE TU,
ABOUT THE MATTER AND ICAC COMMISSIONER
THE HE HAD CONSULTED THE COMMISSIONER SHARED THIS VIEW.
"PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY FOR ACTION AGAINST RESTED WITH THE POLICE," HE SAID.
TRIADS HAS ALWAYS
ORDER AND MR BARNES SAID THE TRIAD PROBLEM WAS ONE OF LAW AND
THE APPROPRIATE BODY TO DEAL WITH OF ORGANISED CRIME; AND
THESE
MATTERS WAS THE ROYAL HONG KONG POLICE.
POLICE
HAD BEEN
EFFECTIVE
THE STRUCTURE, TRAINING AND EQUIPMENT OF THE CONSTANTLY EVOLVED OVER THE YEARS TO ENSURE THAT IT REMAINED FOR THIS PURPOSE, HE SAID.
MR
POINTED BARNES
OUT THAT THE ICAC GOVERNMENT ORGANISATION OUTSIDE THE CIVIL SERVICE.
WAS
AN
INDEPENDENT
FIGHT
TO SPECIFICALLY
CORRUPTION IT WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1974
THE AND OPERATED UNDER
INDEPENDENT COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION AND THE CORRUPT AND ORDINANCE, THE PREVENTION OF BRIBERY ORDINANCE ILLEGAL PRACTICES ORDINANCE.
BRINGS TO COURT "IN THE COURSE OF ITS INVESTIGATIONS THE ICAC OFFENDERS WHO MAY ALSO
TRIAD ACTIVITIES, BUT THESE BE INVOLVED IN
AS A RESULT ONLY FEATURE IN THE ICAC CASES
OF SUSPECTED OFFENCES UNDER ONE OR MORE OF THE THREE ICAC ORDINANCES," HE SAID.
TRIAD "IN OTHER WORDS, ICAC CASES ARE CORRUPTION BASED AND THE
ORDINANCE AND INVOLVEMENT, AND POSSIBLE OFFENCES UNDER THE SOCIETIES OTHER LAWS, ARE INCIDENTAL TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF INQUIRIES.
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"INDEED THE MAJORITY OF ICAC CASES DO TRIAD INVOLVEMENT, HE SAID.
NOT
ANY HAVE
APPARENT
BETWEEN CO-OPERATION MR BARNES NOTED THAT THERE WAS
THE ICAC NOT INVOLVING CORRUPTION AND THE POLICE IN ANTI-TRIAD WORK IN AREAS OFFENCES,
ANTI-TRIAD
OF
THE BUT FOR
ICAC ITSELF ΤΟ TAKE
ALL ON INVESTIGATIONS WOULD MEAN THE TRANSFER FROM THE POLICE TO THE ICAC
NO WHICH WOULD HAVE A VERY EXTENSIVE AREA OF LAW ENFORCEMENT RELATIONSHIP WITH THE OBJECTIVES AND WORK OF THE COMMISSION, HE SAID.
DIRECT
"THIS WOULD