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HONG KONG

DAILY

INFORMATION SERVICES

INFORMATION BULLETIN

Thursday, June 29, 1972

MR. N. G. ROLPH APPOINTED COMMISSIONER FOR NARCOTICS

The Government today announced the appointment of Mr. Norman G.

Rolph, Deputy Commissioner of Police, as Hong Kong's first Commissioner

for Narcotics.

Mr. Rolph will assume his new duties in August, 1972.

He has lived and worked on Hong Kong Island, in Kowloon and in

the New Territories during his many years in Hong Kong and has a wide and

extensive knowledge of the complex drug and crime problems.

Mr. Rolph will work in the Secretariat for Home Affairs and will

be responsible to the Secretary for Home Affairs. In general terms he will

have an overall co-ordinating role concerning the activities of every

Government Department and the various Voluntary Agencies involved in the

fight against the illicit drug traffic in all its forms, including the

rehabilitation of drug addicts.

A Government spokesman said today: "Government fully recognises

that the attainment of these aims will be no easy matter and will be of a

long term nature given the scope and size of the problems to be faced.

By its appointment of a Commissioner who will be able to devote his full time

to these matters, Government has shown it is determined that the serious

criminal and social problems connected with dangerous drugs will be tackled

with the utmost vigour."

/Mr. Rolph