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SUNDAY, AUGUST 27. 1989

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STATISTICS ON POLICE RAIDS IN JULY

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SUSTAINED POLICE ACTION AGAINST

DRUGS, ILLEGAL

VICE ESTABLISHMENTS LED TO THE ARREST OF 1.526 PEOPLE IN THROUGHOUT THE TERRITORY IN JULY.

GAMBLING AND 4.199 RAIDS

THE MONTH, PEOPLE ARRESTED

A POLICE SPOKESMAN SAID TODAY (SUNDAY) THAT DURING 263 PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED IN 404 RAIDS ON HONG KONG ISLAND. 880 WERE ARRESTED IN 3,479 RAIDS IN KOWLOON, AND 365 PEOPLE WERE IN 293 RAIDS IN THE NEW TERRITORIES.

IN ADDITION, NARCOTICS BUREAU OFFICERS ARRESTED 23 OPERATIONS.

18 PEOPLE IN

IN THEIR SUSTAINED

PEOPLE IN

3.122

RAIDS

AGAINST EFFORTS

AND

VICE SEIZED

ACTIVITIES,

A TOTAL

OF

POLICE 255

ARRESTED 128 PORNOGRAPHIC VIDEO TAPES.

ON THE ANTI-GAMBLING FRONT.

WERE

POLICE CONDUCTED 124 RAIDS AND SEIZED IN THE

ARRESTED 702 PEOPLE. ABOUT $600,000 TABLE MONEY OPERATIONS.

696 PEOPLE IN POLICE ALSO CARRIED OUT 953 RAIDS AND ARRESTED

IN JULY. THE DRUGS SEIZED TRAFFICKING THEIR FIGHT AGAINST DRUG

4 HEROIN, INCLUDED 50 KILOGRAMS OF NO. 3 HEROIN, 17 KILOGRAMS OF NO. 628 GRAMS OF OPIUM, 13 GRAMS OF CANNABIS AND 60,000 TABLETS OF PART POISON.

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NUMBER OF OVERLOADED VEHICLES ON THE DECLINE

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CONSIDERABLE

CENT INCREASE

PER DESPITE A YEARLY 16 OVERALL TREND WAS DECLINING AT ABOUT EIGHT PER HIGHWAY, A POLICE SPOKESMAN SAID TODAY (SUNDAY).

AGAINST SINCE POLICE STEPPED UP ENFORCEMENT ACTION TOLO HIGHWAY LAST YEAR. GOODS VEHICLES ON THE

REDUCTION IN THE NUMBER OF

OVERLOADED THERE HAS BEEN OVERLOADED VEHICLES.

A

IN TRAFFIC FLOW, THE CENT A YEAR ON THE

FOR THE WHOLE TERRITORY. THE NUMBER OF PROSECUTIONS

IS OVERLOADING OFFENCE

12,421 IN THE FIRST HALF OF THIS COMPARING WITH 13,651 IN THE CORRESPONDING PERIOD OF LAST YEAR.

FOR YEAR,

+

STUDIES BY THE HIGHWAYS DEPARTMENTS HAVE THE SPOKESMAN SAID:

ROADS. SHOWN THAT EXCESSIVE VEHICLE WEIGHTS WOULD CAUSE DAMAGE TO THE

"OVERLOADING IS ALSO ONE OF THE CONTRIBUTORY FACTORS TO TRAFFIC

ACCIDENTS."

/TRAFFIC POLICE