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Friday, July 20, 1973

FIGHT VIOLENT CRIME "JUST BEGINNING"

The Governor, Sir Murray MacLehose, today stressed that the fight

violent crime campaign had just begun and would not end until its aims

were achieved.

Sir Murray was addressing members of the various area committees

and mutual aid committees when he spent the afternoon seeing for himself the

operation of the committees in the Kwun Tong district in support of the campaign.

He urged the public to help themselves by helping the police.

The Governor also encouraged residents in each building in Hong Kong

to form their own mutual aid committees as well as area committees.

He asked members of the committees to encourage youths of good

character to join the police force to fill about 1,800 vacancies. At the

same time, the government was also making every effort to recruit more regular

policemen.

Sir Murray said that during the past few months the strength of the

auxiliary police had doubled as a result of an intensive recruiting drive.

Commenting on reports that the campaign had already come to an

end, Sir Murray said: This is absolute nonsense. The campaign has just

started and still has a thousand miles to go. Only the technique of the

police in fighting crime changes.

He said we could not expect to see the results of the campaign in

just one month'e time, but we should reap the benefits within a year's time.

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