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WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1988

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RENUNCIATION SCHEME OPEN TO ALL

THE TRIAD RENUNCIATION

WILL SCHEME

TIIE

LEGISLATIVE

DE OPEN TO

PEOPLE ALL FOR SECURITY, THE COUNCIL TODAY

WISHING TO SEVER THEIR TRIAD LINKS, THE SECRETARY

IN BARNES, SAID HON GEOFFREY

(WEDNESDAY).

WINDING UP DEBATE ON THE

(AMENDMENT) SOCIETIES

(NO.2) BILL, BY "HE REVIEWED AFTER ITS FIRST SIX

MR BARNES SAID THE OPERATION OF THE SCHEME WOULD BE MONITORED

BE WOULD FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEE AND MONTHS OF OPERATION.

HE

DESCRIBED

THE

BILL

AS

AN

IMAGINATIVE AND POTENTIALLY COMMITTEE AS ONE EFFECTIVE INITIATIVE, DEVELOPED BY THE FIGHT CRIME MORE MEASURE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST TRIADS AND TRIAD INFLUENCE.

THE HON HO KAM-FAI AND THE HON MR BARNES ALSO THANKED DR

CALLING UPON ROSANNA TAM FOR SPEAKING IN SUPPORT OF THE BILL AND FOR

TAKE YOUNG TRIAD MEMBERS, PARTICULARLY TRIAD OPPORTUNITY TO TURN OVER A NEW LEAF.

MEMBERS,

ΤΟ

THE

SHALL ARRANGE FOR AN EXTENSIVE ABOUT APPLICATION AND PEOPLE, PARTICULARLY YOUNG TRIAD SOCIETIES AND RENOUNCE TRIAD

"ONCE THE BILL IS PASSED WE PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN PROVIDING INFORMATION RENUNCIATION PROCEDURES AND ENCOURAGING PEOPLE, TO TURN THEIR BACKS ON MEMBERSHIP, HE SAID.

"

CO-ORDINATED AND MONITORED BY

HE SAID THE CAMPAIGN WOULD BE THE PUBLICITY SUB-COMMITTEE OF THE FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEE.

CONCERNING RENUNCIATION PROCEDURES, MR BARNES SAID THAT CONFIDENTIALITY WOULD BE MAINTAINED BY BOTH THE STAFF AND THE OF THE TRIBUNAL.

"NAMES OF INDIVIDUAL APPLICANTS AND RENOUNCERS ONLY TO THE TRIBUNAL, AND TO ITS SMALL SECRETARIAT,

STRICT MEMBERS

WILL BE KNOWN

HE SAID.

26K

AND 261.

WILL

BE

"THE SECRECY

PROVISIONS

IN

SECTIONS

STRICTLY ENFORCED.

"THE TRIBUNAL WILL BE INDEPENDENT OF

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THE POLICE ALTHOUGH IT OFFICER WITH EXPERIENCE IN TRIAD WILL BE ESSENTIAL FOR ONE POLICE

ADVICE, MATTERS TO BE AVAILABLE AS PART OF THE SECRETARIAT TO PROVIDE WHERE NECESSARY, TO THE TRIBUNAL.

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