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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1977

REVENUE INSPECTORS TOLD TO RESIST TEMPTATIONS

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THE SENIOR UNOFFICIAL MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL, SIR YUET-KEUNG KAN, TOLD THE 21 REVENUE INSPECTORS AT THE IR PASS ING-OUT PARADE TODAY THAT NO MATTER HOW HEAVY THE PRESSURES AND HOW ATTRACTIVE THE TEMPTATIONS THEY MUST BE FIRM AND RESIST THEM WITHOUT HESITATION.

BY THE NATURE OF THEIR DUTIES, HE NOTED, REVENUE INSPECTORS WOULD BE SUBJECT TO MANY PRESSURES AND TEMPTATIONS.

+ INEVITABLY THERE WILL BE TIMES WHEN OPPORTUNITIES FOR CORRUPTION PRESENT THEMSELVES,+ SAID SIR YUET-KEUNG.

BUT HE ADDED THAT REVENUE INSPECTORS MUST RESIST THE TEMPTATIONS.

FAILURE TO DO SO, HE SAID, WOULD NOT ONLY RUIN THEIR OWN FUTURE BUT WOULD ALSO DAMAGE PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN THE INTEGRITY OF THE PREVENTIVE SERVICE AS A WHOLE.

AMONG THE MANY RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE PREVENTIVE SERVICE, SIR YUET-KEUNG SAID, PERHAPS THE ONE BEST KNOWN TO THE PUBLIC WAS THE VERY ACTIVE ROLE IN THE SUPPRESSION OF DANGEROUS DRUG OFFENCES.

+WITH THE AID OF THE KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE YOU HAVE GAINED HERE, I AM CERTAIN YOU WILL BE ABLE TO PERFORM YOUR DUTIES EFFICIENTLY AND WITH CONFIDENCE,+ HE SAID.

SIR YUET-KEUNG TOOK THE SALUTE AT THE PARADE IN WHICH FIVE SQUADS COMPRISING 66 OFFICERS TOOK PART.

THE PARADE, HELD IN THE PREVENTIVE SERVICE TRAINING SCHOOL AT TAI LAM CHUNG, MARKED THE SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF A SIX-MONTH TRAINING COURSE BY 21 OFFICERS, FIVE OF WHOM ARE WOMEN.

SUBJECTS TAUGHT DURING THE COURSE INCLUDED ELEMENTARY LAW, TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES OF EXCISE AND PREVENTIVE DUTIES, SELF DEFENCE, MAP READING, FIRST AID, LIFE SAVING, USE OF THE FIREARMS AND CIVICS.

ALSO PRESENT WAS MR. BILL DORWARD, COMMISSIONER OF PREVENTIVE SERVICE.

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