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香港政府

GIS

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DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN

DIGIDAY, JUNE 24, 1974

PREVENTIVE SERVICE KEEPS UP PRESSURE AGAINST

ILLICIT DRUG ACTIVITIES

PREVENTIVE SERVICE OFFICERS ARE CONTINUING TO KEEP UP THE

IN LAND AND SEA PRESSURE AGAN:ST ILLICIT DRUG ACTIVITIES. OPERATIONS LAST MONTH THE SERVICE SEIZED DANGEROUS DRUGS WORTH HORE THAN $363,000 AT CURRENT STREET PRICES.

THE QUANTITY SEIZED TOTALLED 48 LDS OF CRUGS OF VARIOUS TYPES AND NEARLY FIVE LITRES OF OPIVII SOLUTICH.

A TOTAL OF 140 SEIZURES VERE MADE, OF WHICH 106 VERE ON LAND, 22 ON THE OUTER ISLANDS, 10 ON OCEAN-GOING VESSELS, ONE ON A LIGHTER AND ONE ON A MOTOR-COAT. THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE ARRESTED TOTALLED 340.

DRUGS NETTED DURING THE MONTH INCLUDED THE FIRST EVER SEIZURES IN HONG KONG OF THE EXTRACT OF CANNABIS, COM:0LY CALLED LIQUID HASH. THE SEIZURE WAS NADE WHEN A PASSENGER ARRIVING AT KAI TAK WAS SEARCHED DY PREVENTIVE SERVICE OFFICERS. THE PASSENGER ALSO HAD

KE IN HIS FOSSESSION A QUANTITY OF CANNABIS ADD CANNABIS RESIN. APPEARED IN COURT AND WAS FINED $12,000 eON THREE MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT

THE PREVENTIVE SERVICE HAS RECENTLY ACQUIRED A NEW +DRUG DECTECTOR+ - A DOG CALLED OLIVER WHO HAS EZE!! SPECIALLY TRAINED TO SNIFF OUT NARCOTICS.

IT IS HOPED THAT HIS SENSITIVE NOSE VILL PROVE MOST USEFUL TO TIÊ SERVICE IN THEIR COI TINUED DRIVE TO CURD ILLEGAL NARCOTIC ACTIVITIES.

AGAINST ILLICIT DISTILLING.

OTHER PREVENTIVE SERVICE OPERATIONS LAST MONTH INCLUDED ACTION

THEIR EFFORTS RESULTED IN THE SEIZURE OF FOUR ILLICIT STILLS AND THE DESTRUCTION OF EARLY 3,000 GALLONS OF FERMENTING MATERIAL.

SEVEN RAIDS WERE CARRIED OUT BY OFFICERS OF THE COPYRIGHT UNIT DURING THE MONTH RESULTING IN THE SEIZURE OF 5.354 PIRATED MUSIC TAPES, 1,138 GRAMOPHONE RECORDS, 58 PIRATED COOKS AND 11 TAPE RECORDERS. TEN CONVICTIONS FOR COPYRIGHT OFFELICES VERE OBTAINED IN THE COUNTS AND THE TOTAL FINGS IMPOSED ALGUNTED TO $52,700.

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Issued by Government Information Services, Beaconsfield House, Hong Kong. Tel: 5-233191

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