Saturday, August 18, 1973
IMMIGRATION VITAL LINK IN H.K.'S SECURITY
Officers of the Immigration Department represent the first line of
defence in safeguarding Hong Kong's security, the Secretary for Security,
Mr. G.P. Lloyd, said today.
Addressing a group of Assistant Immigration Officers at a passing-out
parade this (Saturday) morning, Mr. Lloyd impressed on them that it was their
responsibility "to keep out undesirables of various sorts, thus saving the
police and other law enforcement agencies a great deal of time and work."
He reminded the officers that they represented not only the Immigration
Department, but the Hong Kong government in general and urged them to be
always courteous to the public they served,
"You must always be tolerant of human weakness, combining this with
a sense of justice and a deep appreciation of human problems,
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One of his tasks as Secretary for Security, he went on, was to keep
a watching brief on the activities of the department which he described as
"comparatively small" in Hong Kong terms.
Nevertheless, it handled an enormous volume of work, dealing with
some 25,000 people on an average day.
Last year, the department issued nearly one million visas and travel
documents of various sorts, and gave immigration clearance to over 8.5 million
travellers.
Note to Editors:
Copies of the full text of Mr. Lloyd's speech, in English and Chinese, are boxed for
collection.
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