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SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 1991

OF

THE DRUGS SEIZED INCLUDED 6.4 KILOGRAMS KILOGRAMS OF CANNABIS, 400 GRAMS OF COCAINE AND A PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES.

HEROIN,

2.3 QUANTITY OF

ON THE ANTI-GAMBLING FRONT, POLICE CONDUCTED 111 RAIDS AND ARRESTED 811 PEOPLE. SOME $270,000 IN TABLE MONEY AND BETTING SLIPS WORTH ABOUT $400,000 WERE SEIZED.

POLICE ALSO CARRIED OUT 2,647 ANTI-VICE RAIDS AND ARRESTED PEOPLE. A TOTAL OF 40,764 OBJECTIONABLE PUBLICATIONS AND PORNOGRAPHIC VIDEO TAPES WERE SEIZED.

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YOUNGSTERS INVITED TO JOIN JPC

YOUNG PEOPLE AGED NINE TO 16 ARE INVITED TO BECOME MEMBERS OF THE JUNIOR POLICE CALL (JPC), THE LARGEST YOUTH ORGANISATION IN HONG KONG.

CENTRALLY CO-ORDINATED BY THE POLICE PUBLIC RELATIONS BRANCH, THE JPC SCHEME HAS BEEN PROVIDING THE RIGHT ENVIRONMENT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF YOUNGSTERS INTO LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS OVER THE PAST 16 YEARS,

'BESIDES BEING A CHANNEL FOR PROMOTING CO-OPERATION BETWEEN THE POLICE AND THE YOUNG GENERATION, THE JPC SCHEME ALSO PROVIDES FACILITIES TO ITS MEMBERS ON A WIDE RANGE OF SPORTS, RECREATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES," A POLICE SPOKESMAN SAID TODAY (SUNDAY).

SINCE ITS INCEPTION IN 1974, MORE THAN 540,000 YOUNG HAVE JOINED THE SCHEME AND BENEFITED FROM IT.

AND

PEOPLE

**IN FACE OF THE PREVALENT MATERIALISM AND CONFUSED VALUE SYSTEM IN OUR SOCIETY, THE JPC SCHEME IS PARTICULARLY USEFUL IN GUIDING OUR YOUNG PEOPLE ON TO THE RIGHT TRACK.

"TO BETTER SERVE THE NEED OF JPC MEMBERS, ACTIVITIES ON A DISTRICT BASIS AND HAVE SET UP DISTRICTS FOR THIS PURPOSE," THE SPOKESMAN SAID.

THE

WE ARE ORGANISING CLUBHOUSES IN ALL

IN SUPPORT OF

JPC MEMBERSHIP DRIVE, RESPECTIVE DISTRICTS WILL BE ORGANISING THEIR OWN RECRUITMENT ACTIVITIES IN THE COMING MONTHS.

YOUNG PEOPLE INTERESTED TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE JPC SCHEME WELCOME TO CONTACT THEIR LOCAL POLICE COMMUNITY RELATIONS OFFICES CALL THE POLICE PUBLIC RELATIONS BRANCH ON TEL. 528 4163 EXT. 266 277.

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