MISDAY, DA A2, 1975
*ANT-GRAFT FIGHT MUCT EGT
GNF DAVID FORD
THERE CAN BE NO TURNING BACK OR SLOYING DOWN NOW IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION, GUS DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION SERVICES, MR. DAVID FOR: JAFD TODAY.
HE WAS GIVING ITS PERSONAL, VIEW ON RECENT SUGGESTIONS THAT HONG KONG HAD ALREADY WASHED ENOUGH DIRTY LINEN IN PUBLIC AND THAT THE TIME HAD COME TO CALL OFF THE INDEPENDENT COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION.
ADDRESSING ROTARIANS OF ISLAND EAST, MR, FORD NOTED THAT HONG KONG KAD ATTRACTED MUCH ADVERSE PUBLICITỶ THROUGH CASES EXPOSED IN COURT, AND THE NEXT TWO YEARS WOULD PROBABLY SEE MORE OF THE SAME, AS FAR AS HE WAS CONCERNED, HOWEVER, THERE WAS ONLY ONE WAY TO STOP PEOPLE CALLING HONG KONG CÓRRÜPT ----"DY TOTALLY ERADICATING CORRUPTION FROM OUR SOCIETY.
>ALREADY THERE ARE SIGNS OF A CHANGE OF ATMOSPHERE AND THE LOW STANDARDS OF HONESTY WHICH FOR SO LONG HAVE PERMEATED MUCH OF OUR COMMUNITY ARE BECOMING NO LONGER ACCEPTABLE TODAY, HE SAID. *BUT WE ARE, NEVERTHLESS, EMBARKED UPON A COURSE OF ACTION WHICH WILL NO DOUBT CONTINUE TO PROVOKE A FAIR AMOUNT OF NOISE ON ALL SIDES.+
MR. FORD WAS PERSONALLY AGAINST SUGGESTIONS FOR GENERAL AMNESTIES AND WONDERED HOW THE ADVOCATES COULD POSSIBLY SEE AN EFFECTIVE SOLUTION IN IT.
+COULD ANYBODY REASONABLY ACCEPT THAT ANYDODY WHO WAS CORRUPT BEFORE MARCH 12, 1975 AND DECLARED THE PROFITS HE HAD MADE FROM CORRUPTION DE ALLOWED TO MOVE ON QUIETLY? HE ASKED. HE ALSO QUESTIONED THE EFFECT THIS WOULD HAVE ON THE MORALE OF HONEST PEOPLE WHO HAD SEEN THAT CRIME DID IN FACT PAY PROVIDING THEY ADMITTED IT AFTERWARDS.
WE ARE, I SUGGEST, A FAR CRY FROM THE SITUATION WHEN GENERAL AMNESTIES ARÉ A REASONABLE SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM,* HE SAID.
ON THE QUESTION THAT THE ICAC SHOULD NOW DE STEENED AWAY FROM THE POLICE FORCE AND CONCENTRATE ON OTHER GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS,
SITUATION WAS QUITE CLEAR IN THAT THE ICAC
MR. FORD SAID THE LEGNE COMPLAINTS ABOUT CORRUPTION AND
HAD A STATUTORY DUTY
THERE COULD DE NO QUESTION OF PUTTING ASIDE REPORTS ABOUT ONE PARTICULAR DEPARTMENT.
*IF THE COMMISSION WERE TO BE MANIPULATED IN ANY WAY FOR POLITICAL REASONS, ITS CREDIBILITY WOULD SURELY DISAPPEAR OVERNIGHT.+
/IT WAS NOT
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