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SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 1989

LOOKING

SAID

WITH

OF

MR AHEAD,

LEUNG

THE DEVELOPMENT

то REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT AND THE INTRODUCTION OF DIRECT ELECTIONS

PLAYING AN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL IN 1991, DISTRICT BODIES WOULD BE EVEN MORE IMPORTANT ROLE.

THAT

DISTRICT

HAVE

WOULD BODIES "BY THEN, IT IS EXPECTED

A WAY SUCH INCREASED OPPORTUNITIES TO INFLUENCE CENTRAL POLICIES IN THAT THEY WOULD BE MORE RESPONSIVE TO LOCAL NEEDS AND WELL-RECEIVED BY RESIDENTS, HE ADDED.

REPRESENTATIVES

COMMITTEES,

300 ABOUT

FROM DISTRICT ORGANISATIONS,

INCLUDING AREA

MUTUAL AID COMMITTEES CORPORATIONS IN KWUN TONG ATTENDED TODAY'S SEMINAR.

AND OWNERS'

THE SEMINAR,

THE

HELD ITS IN FOURTH YEAR,

THE THREE-TIER FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF ADMINISTRATION.

IS AIMED AT EXPLORING STRUCTURE IN DISTRICT

TRIAD' RENUNCIATION SCHEME IMPORTANT TO CRIME FIGHTING

* * * *

THE TRIAD RENUNCIATION SCHEME, THE UPCOMING OF TASK FORCES TO COMBAT ORGANISED CRIME, AND PROPOSED NEW LEGISLATION FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING PROCEEDS ARE IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS CRIME IN HONG KONG, THE

COMMISSIONER

CHAN WA-SHEK, SAID TODAY (SUNDAY).

OFFICIATING AT THE

CONFISCATING TO FIGHTING SERVICES,

MR

OF CORRECTIONAL

OPENING

CEREMONY OF THE

GO WITHOUT

CHECKING IN

FIGHTING

TRIAD

KOWLOON

CITY PLAYGROUND, MR CHAN AN WAS A

AND TRIADS, INFLUENCE

DISTRICT FIGHT CRIME DAY AT THE ARGYLE STREET SAID FIGTHING CRIME COULD NOT ESSENTIAL ELEMENT TO SUCCESS CORRECT PERCEPTION OF THE NATURE OF TRIADS.

GLAMORISED ACCOUNTS

OF

TRIAD

ACTIVITIES ARE

US,

"MYSTIFIED OR COUNTERPRODUCTIVE FACTORS WHICH UNFORTUNATELY ARE VERY MUCH WITH

HE SAID.

CORRECT "IN PROVIDING THE PUBLIC, ESPECIALLY THE YOUNG, WITH A

INFLUENCE HAVE AN PERCEPTION OF TRIADS, THE MEDIA WITH ITS POWERFUL IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION TO MAKE.

At

THE GOVERNMENT TO MR CHAN NOTED THAT A LOT WAS BEING DONE BY PROTECT THE YOUNGER GENERATION FROM THE FVIL HANDS OF THE TRIADS.

MR

TRIAD CHAN

THE WRONG PATH, THE "TO THOSE WHO HAVE ALREADY TAKEN RENUNCIATION SCHEME IS THERE TO ASSIST THEIR REHABILITATION,'

SAID.

MR CHAN ALSO ADVISED YOUNG PEOPLE TO AND AWARENESS ON THEIR PART.

EXERCISE

SELF-DISCIPLINE

/APPEALING TO