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TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1991

OF

AGREEMENTS

AND

ASSET FORFEITURE SEVERAL

THIS NETWORK TO EXTEND "WE ARE ANXIOUS ARRANGEMENTS TO OTHER JURISDICTIONS WITH COMPATIBLE

NEGOTIATIONS AND LEGISLATION AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE, OTHER COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES ARE AT VARIOUS STAGES,

LEGAL

WITH HE STRESSED.

UNIT IN THE

TO THE ASSEMBLY DRUG

MR WEEKS ADDED THAT THE CREATION OF A SPECIALIST

ALL

WORK RELATING LEGAL DEPARTMENT, WHICH UNDERTOOK RECOVERY OF THE PROCEEDS OF DRUG TRAFFICKING, HAD LED TO THE OF A BODY OF LEGAL AND PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE RECOVERY OF TRAFFICKING PROCEEDS, BOTH IN HONG KONG AND ELSEWHERE.

OF

"THIS OFFICE, WHICH FORMS PART OF THE PROSECUTIONS DIVISION

THE CENTRAL AUTHORITY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS, ALSO ACTS AS

FOR REQUESTS

ASSISTANCE PROCESSING OF ALL IN THE FOR HONG KONG

AGREEMENTS WITH OTHER PURSUANT TO OUR VARIOUS ANTI-DRUG TRAFFICKING JURISDICTIONS," HE SAID.

VERY ACTIVE PART MOREOVER, MR WEEKS SAID HONG KONG ALSO TOOK

STRONG IN A WIDE RANGE OF MULTI-LATERAL ANTI-DRUG ACTIVITIES, AND HAD

AND OTHER REGIONAL AND AND EFFECTIVE LINKS WITH THE UNITED NATIONS

INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES, INCLUDING THE NEWLY CONSTITUTED DRUG CONTROL PROGRAMME.

INTERNATIONAL "IN THE FIELD OF

LAW-ENFORCEMENT

THE POLICE

-

COMBATTING

NARCOTICS BUREAU AND CLOSE LINKS WITH THEIR ASIA, THE USA, AUSTRALIA,

THE INTERNATIONAL DRUG-TRAFFICKER THE CUSTOMS AND EXCISE DEPARTMENT HAVE IN ELSEWHERE COUNTERPARTS IN CHINA AND CANADA AND MOST EUROPEAN COUNTRIES, EITHER DIRECTLY INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS AS INTERPOL AND THE COUNCIL.

COUNCIL,

OR THROUGH SUCH CUSTOMS CO-OPERATION

OF THE ECONOMIC AND "THE HONG KONG CUSTOMS, UNDER THE AEGIS

THE PACIFIC, RUNS

ASIA/PACIFIC THE SOCIAL COMMISSION FOR ASIA AND

A PROVIDING

VITAL OFFICE OF THE CUSTOMS CO-OPERATION

CUSTOMS AUTHORITIES ON CROSS-FLOW OF INTELLIGENCE BETWEEN DIFFERENT THE LATEST TRENDS IN DRUG SMUGGLING AND MONEY LAUNDERING TECHNIQUES.

THE

IS MAINTAINED AT "A POST OF COUNSELLOR FOR HONG KONG AFFAIRS

WITH THE THAI LAW LIAISE TO BANGKOK IN BRITISH EMBASSY

AND INTERPOL OFFICES, ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES, REGIONAL UNITED NATIONS AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE FOREIGN ANTI-NARCOTICS COMMUNITY IN BANGKOK.

"OUR COUNSELLOR,

A

CHIEF

WITH

SUPERINTENDENT

OF

POLICE,

ALSO

THE GOVERNMENTS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT MAINTAINS CLOSE CONTACT

HE SAID. AGENCIES OF NEIGHBOURING SOUTHEAST ASIAN COUNTRIES,

"

WHICH COVERS ACTIVITIES WHILE TALKING ABOUT DEMAND REDUCTION

GENERAL PUBLIC EDUCATION,

INFORMATION, IN THE FIELD OF

THE COMMISSIONER FOR NARCOTICS TREATMENT EMPHASISED THAT IT WAS EQUALLY AND PROBABLY MUCH MORE IMPORTANT.

PREVENTIVE REHABILITATION, AND

ARE ΤΟ

STOP, OR AT LEAST

IGNORANCE,

THAT WE ABUSE

WE HE SAID: "IT IS ESSENTIAL IF

WHO, THROUGH OF

PEOPLE, OUR YOUNG REDUCE THE NUMBERS

VICTIM ΤΟ DRUGS EVERY YEAR, CURIOSITY OR WHATEVER, FALL EDUCATE THEM PROPERLY IN THE INEVITABLE RESULTS OF SUBSTANCE

ABUSE OF LICIT SUBSTANCES LIKE AND HERE I CONSCIOUSLY INCLUDE THE WITH

OF

AND THE MISUSE

THE ILLEGAL ALONG ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO, PRESCRIPTION DRUGS THAT WE NORMALLY THINK OF IN THIS CONTEXT.

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