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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1991
SIR DAVID SAID: "WE COMPLY WITH A FULL OF INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS ON DRUG CONTROL
FINANCIAL
ACTION
RANGE OF AND WE ARE TASK FORCE ON MONEY
REQUIRENTS
AN
ACTIVE
LAUNDERING
MEMBER OF THE RECENTLY ESTABLISHED AND WHICH INVOLVES OVER 20 COUNTRIES.
"WE
ENACTED
THE
DRUG
TRAFFICKING
ORDINANCE IN 1989 AND TO ASSETS UNDER THIS LEGISLATION."
DATE HAVE
FROZEN
OF (RECOVERY
$200 MILLION
PROCEEDS)
WORTH OF
AT THE HEART OF THE DEPUTY TO THE GOVERNOR POINTED OUT THAT
THE
ΤΟ FOR OPPORTUNITY
CRIMINALS THE EVIL OF DRUG TRAFFICKING WAS MAKE HUGE PROFITS.
CLOSE ESTABLISHED "THE POLICE AND CUSTOMS HAVE
IN THEIR ANTI-DRUG OPERATIONS AGAINST THEIR OVERSEAS COUNTERPARTS INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATES.
LIAISON WITH
INVOLVED IN "NO LESS THAN 494 OFFICERS FROM BOTH SERVICES ARE
INCREASE OF 86 PER CENT THE SPECIALIST ANTI-NARCOTICS BUREAUX, AN OVER THE PAST 10 YEARS.
"THE TWO SPECIALIST BUREAUX ARE, OF COURSE, SUPPORTED BY CUSTOMS AND POLICE OFFICERS IN THE BATTLE AGAINST DRUGS.
OTHER
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"WE HAVE RECENTLY FORMALISED SUCH INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION BY
JURISDICTIONS, ENTERING INTO BILATERAL AGREEMENTS WITH NINE OVERSEAS HE ADDED.
THE
TURNING TO THE LOCAL SCENE, SIR DAVID SAID
AND PROBLEM MULTI-FACETED CONTAINING THIS PROBLEM COMPARED
CITY.
DRUG ABUSE WAS A HONG PROGRESS
KONG HAD MADE IN FAVOURABLY WITH ANY INTERNATIONAL
COMMITTED
ΤΟ PROVIDING
ALL POSSIBLE
HE SAID: "WE ARE FULLY RESOURCES TO SUPPORT OUR ANTI-DRUG EFFORTS.
"AS PART OF THAT EFFORT WE WILL CONTINUE TO INFORM THE IN PARTICULAR THE YOUNG PEOPLE, OF THE DANGERS OF DRUG ABUSE.
PUBLIC,
OUR PUBLIC EDUCATION
AND
IN
"CLEARLY, COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT IN PUBLICITY CAMPAIGNS IS A KEY FACTOR IN ITS SUCCESS.
CHAIRMAN,
DR
GERALD
CHOA,
SAID
HIS
ACAN EARLIER, THE WELCOME SPEECH THAT THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY HELD A SPECIAL SESSION IN NEW YORK EARLY LAST YEAR, DEVOTED TO CONSIDERATION GLOBAL PROBLEMS OF DRUG ABUSE AND ILLICIT COME TO GRIPS WITH THESE.
"THAT MEETING RESULTED
REAFFIRMED THE DETERMINATION OF THE
OF THE TRAFFICKING, AND WAYS TO
WHICH TO COMBAT THE THE AND IN
OF THE
IN
A
POLITICAL
DECLARATION,
SCOURGE OF DRUG
ABUSE
ADOPTION OF A GLOBAL PLAN
OF
AND ILLICIT
ACTION
WORLD COMMUNITY
DRUG TRAFFICKING,
AIMED AT
ERADICATION
PROBLEMS OVER THE NEXT DECADE.
THE VERY HIGHEST AND SUSTAINED
"THIS IS AN EXPRESSION OF POLITICAL WILL AT LEVEL AND REAFFIRMS THE WORLD'S COMMITMENT TO VIGOROUS ACTION AGAINST THIS MANIFOLD PROBLEM," DR CHOA ADDED.
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