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Question:... deadline centres as to when they'll be set up?
Governor: We will set them up as soon as we can but obviously we have to go through the normal planning procedures. Any more on drugs?
Question: How will you co-ordinate all the plans?
Governor: How will we co-ordinate our plans? Well, first of all ACAN will be undertaking the review of all the ideas that were put forward this afternoon. They will be reporting to me within three months. The Commissioner of Narcotics will be the main focus in Government for pulling together this programme but obviously I will be taking a particularly close personal interest in it myself.
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Question: Governor Patten, some schools have quite severe programmes for students of theirs in testing drugs including... (inaudible) So how ...do you think it is for schools, independent of Government, to foster programmes their own for their own students?
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Governor: Well, a good school, among other things, is a community and as a community it helps prepare children, young people, for the wider community. I think that where good schools are taking initiatives of their own that work, they're to be encouraged and commended. What's more we should try to learn from the example of some schools what works and what may not work. I feel very strongly that not only in this field but in others, it is not sufficient to assume that whatever we have been doing must be the right approach. I think that we need to ensure that we target our efforts and our resources on the things that have the best chance of success and that's true in health education and lifestyle education at schools. It's also true when you come to rehabilitation and treatment of abusers. So I think in a lot of areas we've got to have the humility as Government and as non- governmental organisations and the schools, to look, as somebody said this-aftemoon, radically, at what we are doing, try to learn from one another and try to put into place what best works.
Question: Are you saying that you would like to see more of... Hong Kong in some . (inaudible)
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