SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1991
SPEED BOAT SMUGGLING ACTIVITIES DRAMATICALLY REDUCED
REDUCED
SPEED BOAT SMUGGLING ACTIVITIES HAVE BEEN DRAMATICALLY
LAWS WHICH ALLOW IN HONG KONG WATERS FOLLOWING THE ENACTMENT OF NEW
SMUGGLING WIDE RANGING POWERS FOR POLICE AND OTHER AUTHORITIES TO HIT SYNDICATES ON LAND AND SEA.
BOATYARDS MANUFACTURING SPEED BOATS INTENDED SMUGGLING HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AND NEW LAWS ENFORCED THAT ILLICIT SPEED BOAT TRAFFIC HALTED.
TO BE USED FOR ΤΟ SUCH EFFECT
NYLON THE USE OF A
ROPE BARRIER AT THE ENTRANCE TO Toto CHANNEL WHICH STOPPED A SPEED BOAT AND LED TO ITS IMPOUNDING WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN BRINGING A COMPLETE STOP TO SPEED BOATS THERE.
FURTHER NEW LEGISLATION AIMED AT PREVENTING LARGER VESSELS JUNKS FROM CARRYING CERTAIN CARGO WITHOUT PERMITS HAD BEEN ENACTED.
AND
OF
THE POLICE DEPUTY MARINE REGIONAL COMMANDER AND COMMANDER SPECIALLY-FORMED ANTI-SMUGGLING THE
TASK FORCE. MR BASIL LIM, I AM VERY PLEASED SAID: "I AM NOT GOING TO BE COMPLACENT BUT
WITH
RESULTS SO FAR.
GIVEN
"WE HAVE BEEN
THE LAWS WE NEEDED AND ENFORCING THEM TO ACHIEVE OUR OBJECTIVES."
NOW
WB ARE
MR LIM WAS DELIGHTED WITH THE SUCCESSFUL USE OF THE BARRIER TOLO HARBOUR, WHICH HE DESCRIBED AS "OUR SECRET WEAPON".
AT
THE SPEED BOAT SNARED BY THE BARRIER WAS POWERED HORSEPOWER ENGINES AND LOADED WITH 46 TELEVISION THE BOAT TURNED ROUND WHEN THEY SAW THE ILLUMINATED BARRIER THEIR ESCAPE AND WERE STOPPED AND ARRESTED.
SETS.
BY FIVE 300 THE CREW OF AHEAD OF
IT,
I
THE MOBILE BARRIER CAN BE PUT UP QUICKLY AND AT SHORT NOTICE.
STOPPED BEEN ALMOST ARE BEING
AND FOLLOWED "AS SOON AS WE SAW THE BOAT LOADING, WE MR LIM SAID. "DURING THE WEEKS FOLLOWING THERE HAS
OF SPEED
IN BOATS NO ACTIVITY
AREA. THAT
THEY CAUTIOUS NOW THAT THEY HAVE EXPERIENCED OUR 'SECRET WEAPON', CAN USE AT WILL.
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VERY WHICH WE
то STOP AND LEGISLATION ON PERMITTED CARGOS ENABLES OFFICERS
WHICH NOW MUST SEARCH LARGER SLOWER MOVING VESSELS AND SEIZE CARGOS BE LICENSED BY CARRIERS. THESE
SETS, CARGOS INCLUDE TELEVISION
RECEIVERS AND
MOTOR AIR CONDITIONERS,
PLAYERS, REFRIGERATORS,
VEHICLES AND VEHICLE PARTS.
MR
LIM
THE
OF CO-OPERATION
POLICE LAND
ΤΟ
MONITOR THE
"I
IN
IN
ACTIVITIES OF
SMUGGLING, HE SAID. CO-ORDINATING OUR COMBINED
"THE
PAID TRIBUTE ΤΟ DISTRICTS IN THE SUCCESS OF OPERATIONS.
"WE ARE ALL WORKING TOGETHER YARDS AND SHOPS KNOWN TO BE INVOLVED WORKING EFFECTIVELY
TASK FORCE IS
EFFORTS."*
/SINCE OPERATIONS
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