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TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1991

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130 PEOPLE ARRESTED IN ANTI-TRIAD OPERATIONS SO FAR IN JUNE

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FAR THIS MONTH

POLICE HAVE ARRESTED A TOTAL OF 130 PEOPLE SO IN A SERIES OF ANTI-TRIAD OPERATIONS THROUGHOUT THE TERRITORY.

UP

WERE ROUNDED TRIAD-RELATED

WITH ROBBERY SYNDICATES, TRIAD MEMBERS

THESE SUSPECTS, INCLUDING 124 MEN AND SIX WOMEN, IN 11

CONNECTION POLICE

IN OPERATIONS BLACKMAILING, WOUNDING, LOANSHARKING ACTIVITIES, ILLEGAL GAMBLING, ALLEGEDLY FORCING STUDENTS TO JOIN TRIAD SOCIETIES.

UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY

AND SUSPECTED

WHO WERE ARRESTED IN TWO AT LEAST TWO MEN, AGED 26 AND 51,

NOTORIOUS SEPARATE OPERATIONS, WERE SUSPECTED TO BE OFFICE-BEARERS OF TRIAD GANGS.

THE HUGE NUMBER OF

A ARRESTS,

POLICE SPOKESMAN SAID TODAY ΤΟ CRACK DOWN HARD ON

(TUESDAY), DEMONSTRATED THE FORCE'S RESOLVE TRIAD ELEMENTS.

THE ARRESTS WERE MADE BY WHILE THE MAJORITY OF

ANTI-TRIAD NUMBER OF OCCASIONS OFFICERS FOLLOWING LENGTHY INVESTIGATIONS, IN A

MADE THE ARRESTS WERE MADE AT THE SCENE FOLLOWING PROMPT REPORTS WERE TO THE POLICE BY VICTIMS.

FOR THE SPOKESMAN CITED THAT TWO MEN WERE ARRESTED ON THE SPOT

FILM

CREW SHOOTING ON TRYING TO BLACKMAIL A ALLEGEDLY

COMPANY JUNCTION OF PERCIVAL

AND STREET LOCATION OUTSIDE A THEATRE AT THE LEIGHTON ROAD, CAUSEWAY BAY ON JUNE 13.

THE FILM COMPANY STAFF, REFUSED TO PAY APPROACHED, IMMEDIATELY CALLED FOR POLICE ASSISTANCE.

PROTECTION MONEY WHEN

AGAINST TRIAD OF THE MEMBERS

THE POLICE SPOKESMAN POINTED OUT THAT THE FIGHT

FROM GANGS IN THE TERRITORY

CO-OPERATION PUBLIC TO REPORT AND TO TESTIFY AGAINST THEM IN COURTS.

REQUIRED

"THE BATTLE COULD NOT BE WON BY THE FORCE ALONE,

WERE

ALLOWED

MEMBERS

TO MANY TRIAD INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE WERE PUT BEFORE THE COURTS PROSECUTION WITNESSES.

HE STRESSED.

AS ESCAPE JUSTICE

DUE TO A LACK OF

APART FROM

STEPPING

UP

GATHERING INTELLIGENCE

AND

LEVELS, DISTRICT

EFFORTS BY

OFFICERS AT THE REGIONAL

THE SPOKESMAN BAID SCHOOL TEACHERS AND PARENTS COULD CONTRIBUTE TO THE DOWNFALL OF TRIAD GANGS BY REPORTING IRREGULAR BEHAVIOUR OF THEIR STUDENTS AND CHILDREN.

AS MANY TRIAD GANGS SURVIVED ON EXTORTING PROTECTION MONEY FROM SHOP SHOP OPERATORS IN THEIR AREAS OF INFLUENCE, THE SPOKESMAN URGED OPERATORS, PARTICULARLY THOSE OF NEWLY OPENED BUSINESS, TO REPORT TRIAD HARASSMENT WITHOUT DELAY THROUGH THE TRIAD HOTLINE 527 7887.

THEY ARE

ALSO

REGIONAL

WELCOME TO CONTACT VARIOUS INTELLIGENCE SECTIONS FOR ADVICE TO FEND OFF TRIAD HARASSMENT.

ANY

TRIAD

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