XN000022-1987-06-11 — Page 9

THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1987 ·

IMPORTANCE OF TACKLING ORGANISED CRIME STRESSED

TO LOOK A VERY IMPORTANT TASK IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF LAW IS AT WAYS то TACKLE MORE

INCLUDING CRIMES, ORGANISED EFFECTIVELY

MR DAVID JEAFFRESON SAID TODAY TRIADS, THE SECRETARY FOR SECURITY, (THURSDAY),

PO LEUNG KUK, SPEAKING AT THE DIRECTORS' LUNCHEON MEETING OF

CURRENT LAWS AND RULES MR JEAFFRESON SAID HE FELT THAT HONG KONG'S THAT WENT WITH THEM SERIOUSLY LIMITED THE LAW ENFORCEMENT TO TACKLE CRIMINAL ORGANISATIONS.

AUTHORITIES

FACT THAT WE

"OUR INVESTIGATIVE MACHINERY IS HAMPERED BY THE CANNOT GET AT AND PRODUCE IN COURT EVIDENCE WHICH EXISTS," HE SAID.

CONFRONTED THESE NOTING THAT THE AMERICANS, AMONG OTHERS, HAD

MR PROBLEMS,

JEAFFRESON DISCLOSED THAT

WOULD BE THE GOVERNMENT THIS SUMMER TO SEE HOW THE SENDING A LAWYER TO THE UNITED STATES AMERICAN SYSTEM FOR TACKLING ORGANISED CRIME WORKED.

SAID.

"THEN I HOPE WE MAY AGAIN ASK THE PUBLIC FOR THEIR

GRAND

VIEWS,"

HE

JURY, AN

LAW.

"IT

HE POINTED OUT THAT IN AMERICA, THERE WAS THE INVESTIGATIVE BODY WHICH HAD ITS ANCESTRY IN BRITISH COMMON IS A POWERFUL DEVICE FOR INVESTIGATING ORGANISED CRIME," HE ADDED.

"THE AMERICANS ALSO HAVE

SPECIFIC LEGISLATION AIMED

AT

IT CRIMINAL CONSPIRACIES. THEY CALL

RACKETEERING. THIS TACKLING

THERE TO HAVE SOME LEGISLATION HAS HELPED THE AUTHORITIES

NOTABLE SUCCESS IN RECENT YEARS IN TACKLING THE HEADS OF ORGANISED CRIME, SAID.

ON A

HE

PROPOSAL REGARDING POLICE SUPERVISION OF TRIADS OR THE ISSUE WAS STILL UNDER DANGEROUS CRIMINALS, MR JEAFFRESON SAID

NOT ONE TO BE RUSHED CONSIDERATION, "THIS IS A DIFFICULT AREA AND

INTO."

A WOULD BE

TRIAD WERE FORCED ΤΟ JOIN

"BROTHERS" OF BAD

MIGHT

THAT A HE POINTED OUT

MAJOR INITIATIVE RENOUNCIATION SCHEME, WHEREBY YOUNG PEOPLE WHO TRIADS OR DID SO WHEN UNDER THE INFLUENCE FORMALLY RENOUNCE THEIR PREVIOUS BAD WAYS.

TO LET OUR YOUNG NUMBER OF BOARDS ARE LOOKING AT

"I THINK ONE OF THE KEY AREAS IS OUR DRIVE PEOPLE KNOW WHAT EVIL ASSOCIATING WITH TRIADS CAN BRING. A DISTRICT FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEES AND DISTRICT THE PROBLEM IN THEIR OWN DISTRICTS.

"CENTRALLY, THE FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEE IS ALSO

OUT WHAT THE BEST RESPONSE IS.

ΤΟ TRYING

WORK

"SHORTLY SOME INTENSIVE

PUBLICITY

WILL BE LAUNCHED

AGAINST

TO USE

TO

TRIADS. AND WE INTEND TO PRODUCE MATERIAL FOR THE SCHOOLS DISCOURAGE THEIR STUDENTS FROM JOINING TRIADS," MR JEAFFRESON SAID.

19