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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1986

SOME INDIVIDUAL SOCIETIES WERE WELL CONTROLLED AND STRUCTURED WHILE OTHERS WERE FRAGMENTED AND MORE LOOSELY CONTROLLED.

+THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT IF THE POLICE ARE TO BE MORE EFFECTIVE IN ELIMINATING TRIADS, CHANGES TO THE WAY RELEVANT PARTS OF THE LAW ARE ADMINISTERED AND TO PARTS OF THE LAW ITSELF MUST BE CONSIDERED AND GIVEN CAREFUL EXAMINATION AND EVALUATION BY US AS A COMMUNITY, HE SAID.

SIR DAVID SAID THAT THE WORKING GROUP, WHICH INCLUDED MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, HAD ALSO BEEN CONSIDERING HOW THE LAW MIGHT BE CHANGED TO STRENGTHEN THE ATTACK AGAINST TRIADS.

THEY ARE +THE RESULTS ARE THE OPTIONS IN THIS DOCUMENT. DESIGNED TO COVER THE FULL SPECTRUM OF TRIAD ACTIVITY. THEY RANGE FROM THE SIMPLE AND STRAIGHT-FORWARD TO THE HARSH AND COMPLEX.

+THERE ARE OPTIONS BETTER TO PROTECT THE GENERAL PUBLIC TO PREVENT THE OVERT DISPLAY OF TRIAD POWER TO ATTACK GANGS WHICH SEEK TO INTIMIDATE PEOPLE; TO TIGHTEN THE LEGISLATION DEALING WITH TRIAD SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP; AND TO LIMIT THE MOVEMENT OF CONVICTED TRIAD MEMBERS AND THEIR ACCESS TO CERTAIN FACILITIES,+ SIR DAVID SAID.

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TO BE EFFECTIVE, HE ADDED, LAWS MUST HAVE THE FULL SUPPORT OF THE COMMUNITY AND PEOPLE MUST BE PREPARED TO COME FORWARD TO REPORT CRIME AND TO ACT AS WITNESSES.

WITHOUT SUCH CO-OPERATION, THE POLICE WERE GREATLY HAMPERED

IN THEIR EFFORTS TO ENFORCE THE LAW AND TO REDUCE CRIME.

SIR DAVID SAID THAT TO DETERMINE WHICH OF THE OPTIONS HAD PUBLIC SUPPORT, IT WAS PROPOSED THAT THREE MONTHS BE ALLOWED FOR PUBLIC CONSULTATION,

HE SAID ALL COMMENTS RECEIVED AND VIEWS EXPRESSED WOULD BE COLLECTED AND COLLATED BY THE SECRETARIAT OF THE FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEE. THESE WOULD BE SUMMARISED AND DETAILED PROPOSALS MADE TO THE GOVERNOR-IN-COUNCIL FOLLOWING WHICH THERE WOULD BE A PUBLIC STATEMENT OF THE WAY FORWARD.

+SPEED OF IMPLEMENTATION WILL DEPEND UPON THE NATURE OF ANY PARTICULAR RECOMMENDATION. BUT THE GOVERNMENT WILL MOVE AS QUICKLY AS IT CAN,+ HE ADDED.

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