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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1988

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MAINLAND OFFICIAL GIVES ASSURANCE ON POLICE JOBS

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A HIGH-RANKING CHINESE OFFICIAL HAS ASSURED THE COMMISSIONER OF

THAT JOBS OF POLICE POLICE, MR RAYMON ANNING,

OFFICERS, INCLUDING

EXPATRIATES, ARE SECURE AFTER 1997.

STATE

THE REASSURANCE WAS GIVEN BY MR LU PING, VICE DIRECTOR

KONG AND MACAU AFFAIRS

HONG COUNCIL'S ANNING'S RECENT 10-DAY VISIT TO CHINA.

OF THE OFFICE, DURING

MR

"THE MEETING WITH MR LU

FI

FRIENDLY AND VERY REASSURING,

LASTED OVER AN HOUR AND

THE MR ANNING TOLD

POLICE

WAS VERY NEWSPAPER,

OFFBEAT, IN AN INTERVIEW.

GREAT REGARD FOR STANDARD OF

"HE WENT TO GREAT PAINS TO ASSURE ME OF HIS THE FORCE, OF ITS REPUTATION FOR EFFICIENCY AND THE HIGH SECURITY IN HONG KONG."

TO

OF

OF

RELATIVE IT WAS WHILE DISCUSSING THE POSITION OF THE FORCE

TERM THE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD UP TO 1997 AND THEREAFTER DURING THE THE SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION GOVERNMENT THAT MR LU DREW ATTENTION TO THE JOINT AGREEMENT AND ITS SPECIAL REFERENCES TO THE GUARANTEE

FOR AT LEAST HALF A CENTURY JOBS AND PENSIONS OF POLICE OFFICERS BEYOND THE HAND-OVER DATE.

J

"RE SAID

HE

UNDERSTOOD

HOW

IMPORTANT

WAS FORCE

AND EXPRESSED ON AFTER 1997

IN

THE PERIOD TRANSITIONAL MAINTAINING STABILITY DURING THE THE HOPE THAT AS MANY OFFICERS AS POSSIBLE WOULD STAY TO SERVE THE SAR GOVERNMENT, MR ANNING WENT ON.

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MR ANNING WELL IN OFFICERS IN A

ON THE SUBJECT OF THE FUTURE OF EXPATRIATE OFFICERS, SAID BOTH HAD AGREED THAT THE "MIX" HAD SERVED THE COMMUNITY THE PAST AND MR LU PING FORESAW A ROLE FOR EXPATRIATE SIMILAR FASHION AFTER 1997.

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MR LU ALSO TOUCHED

ON

STATIONING THE

BE NO

OF

ELEMENTS OF THE

PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARMY IN HONG KONG FOR PURPOSES OF NATIONAL DEFENCE

WOULD

INTERFERENCE BY

IN THEM AND REASSURED ME THAT THERE INTERNAL SECURITY OF THE WORKINGS OF THE POLICE FORCE WHICH WOULD BE A

MR ANNING POINTED OUT. MATTER FOR THE SAR GOVERNMENT ALONE,

"

OF DISCUSSION WAS THE OPERATIONALLY, ONE OF THE MAIN TOPICS

TRENDS WERE CURRENT HIGH RATE OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. STATISTICS AND

WAS SOUGHT PASSED ON AND THE CO-OPERATION OF THE CHINESE AUTHORITIES IN RESOLVING THE PROBLEM,

INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, AS AT THE TIME NUMBERS HAVE DROPPED, BUT IT'S FAR TOO SOON TO MR ANNING SAID.

—

OF THIS

CONFIRM

INTERVIEW THE THIS TREND,

M

DISCUSSED

A PROBLEM CONVERTED BUTTERFLY PISTOLS WERE ALSO

TOGETHER WITH THE PROBLEM OF EQUALLY EXPERIENCED ACROSS THE BORDER EXPLOSIVES EMANATING FROM CHINA AND DISCOVERED IN CONNECTION WITH FISH ROMB CASES IN HONG KONG WATERS.

/HR AHNING................