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Friday, November 24, 1972

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Mr. Roberts said that the proposed new regulation would, for example,

enable an area to be cordoned off and everyone in it searched for weapons.

In his speech to the Legislative Council almost two weeks ago, the

Attorney General said that the proposed measures showed the part the government

was taking to deal with the rising crime problem. "But we cannot do it alone -

crime cannot be kept within acceptable bounds unless every member of the community

is prepared to do what he can to help."

Mr. Roberts also announced that the government was considering the

re-introduction of a form of rigorous imprisonment for people convicted of

violent crime and the institution of a preventive detention system to remove

'habitual criminals" from society for long periods.

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