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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1989

ANTI-TRIAD ACTION A POLICE RESPONSIBILITY

BE INAPPROPRIATE AGAINST CORRUPTION

IT WOULD

COMMISSION ANTI-TRIAD LAW

ENFORCEMENT,

THE

то TRANSFER

THE (ICAC)

FOR SECRETARY

TO THE INDEPENDENT RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE HON SECURITY,

GEOFFREY BARNES, SAID IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

MR BARNES SAID REPLYING TO A QUESTION FROM THE HON ELSIE TU,

ABOUT THE MATTER AND ICAC COMMISSIONER

THE HE HAD CONSULTED THE COMMISSIONER SHARED THIS VIEW.

"PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY FOR ACTION AGAINST RESTED WITH THE POLICE," HE SAID.

TRIADS HAS ALWAYS

ORDER AND MR BARNES SAID THE TRIAD PROBLEM WAS ONE OF LAW AND

THE APPROPRIATE BODY TO DEAL WITH OF ORGANISED CRIME; AND

THESE

MATTERS WAS THE ROYAL HONG KONG POLICE.

POLICE

HAD BEEN

EFFECTIVE

THE STRUCTURE, TRAINING AND EQUIPMENT OF THE CONSTANTLY EVOLVED OVER THE YEARS TO ENSURE THAT IT REMAINED FOR THIS PURPOSE, HE SAID.

MR

POINTED BARNES

OUT THAT THE ICAC GOVERNMENT ORGANISATION OUTSIDE THE CIVIL SERVICE.

WAS

AN

INDEPENDENT

FIGHT

TO SPECIFICALLY

CORRUPTION IT WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1974

THE AND OPERATED UNDER

INDEPENDENT COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION AND THE CORRUPT AND ORDINANCE, THE PREVENTION OF BRIBERY ORDINANCE ILLEGAL PRACTICES ORDINANCE.

BRINGS TO COURT "IN THE COURSE OF ITS INVESTIGATIONS THE ICAC OFFENDERS WHO MAY ALSO

TRIAD ACTIVITIES, BUT THESE BE INVOLVED IN

AS A RESULT ONLY FEATURE IN THE ICAC CASES

OF SUSPECTED OFFENCES UNDER ONE OR MORE OF THE THREE ICAC ORDINANCES," HE SAID.

TRIAD "IN OTHER WORDS, ICAC CASES ARE CORRUPTION BASED AND THE

ORDINANCE AND INVOLVEMENT, AND POSSIBLE OFFENCES UNDER THE SOCIETIES OTHER LAWS, ARE INCIDENTAL TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF INQUIRIES.

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"INDEED THE MAJORITY OF ICAC CASES DO TRIAD INVOLVEMENT, HE SAID.

NOT

ANY HAVE

APPARENT

BETWEEN CO-OPERATION MR BARNES NOTED THAT THERE WAS

THE ICAC NOT INVOLVING CORRUPTION AND THE POLICE IN ANTI-TRIAD WORK IN AREAS OFFENCES,

ANTI-TRIAD

OF

THE BUT FOR

ICAC ITSELF ΤΟ TAKE

ALL ON INVESTIGATIONS WOULD MEAN THE TRANSFER FROM THE POLICE TO THE ICAC

NO WHICH WOULD HAVE A VERY EXTENSIVE AREA OF LAW ENFORCEMENT RELATIONSHIP WITH THE OBJECTIVES AND WORK OF THE COMMISSION, HE SAID.

DIRECT

"THIS WOULD