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MONDAY, JULY 22, 1991

$261 MILLION

TRAFFICKING (RECOVERY OF 1989 TO THE END OF 1990, CASH AND

WERE FROZEN, AND THE

COURTS

"SINCE THE INTRODUCTION OF THE DRUG PROCEEDS) ORDINANCE IN SEPTEMBER ASSETS AMOUNTING TO CONFISCATED ABOUT $500,000 FOLLOWING SUCCESSFUL PROSECUTIONS."

ON TRAFFIC,

MR

SUCCESS

LI IN

CONSIDERABLE ACCIDENTS.

THAT 1990 EMERGED SAID THE OVERALL EFFORT TO

AS A REDUCE

YEAR

TRAFFIC

OF

"THE FORCE CONTINUED

то

STRENGTHEN

ITS

SPEED-DETECTION

AND

WRIGHT-CHECKING CAPABILITY BY ACQUIRING MORE WEIGHING FACILITIES TO MEET INCREASING TO UPGRADE ENFORCEMENT LEVELS."

ADVANCED EQUIPMENT AND OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS AND

ACKNOWLEDGING THAT

INFORMATION

TECHNOLOGY

HAD

BECOME

AN

IMPORTANT PART OF MODERN POLICING, MR LI DISCLOSED THAT MANY PROJECTS HAD BEEN COMPLETED DURING THE YEAR TO COPE DEMANDS.

ADVANCED WITH OPERATIONAL

THE IN CONCLUSION, MR LI STRESSED PREVENT CRIME, REPORT CRIME AND PROVE CRIME,

BE COULD NOT

WON WITHOUT AGAINST CRIME COMMUNITY.

NEED

FOR THE ADDING THAT THE ASSISTANCE

PUBLIC TO

THE FIGHT

OF

THE

EFFECTIVE FISHERIES MANAGEMENT IN SOUTH CHINA SEA NEEDED

*

OF

DWINDLING CATCHES BY LOCAL FISHING FLEET AND SHRINKING SIZE FISH CAUGHT HAS BROUGHT HOME THE NEED FOR EFFECTIVE FISHERIES MANAGEMENT IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA REGION, THE SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC SERVICES, MRS ANSON CHAN, SAID TODAY (MONDAY).

MRS CHAN WAS SPEAKING AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE SEVENTH SESSION OF THE COMMITTEE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF FISHERIES IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA (CDMSCS) HELD AT OMNI THE HUNG. KONG HOTEL.

THE CDMSCS, SET UP IN 1981, IS ONE OF THE SEVEN BODIES UNDER THE INDO-PACIFIC FISHERY COMMISSION (IPFC) ORGANISED AND RUN BY THE FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANISATION THE UNITED NATIONS.

SUBSIDIARY WHICH IS (FAO) OF

MEMBER

THE SESSION IS ATTENDED BY DELEGATES OF THE COMMITTEE'S COUNTRIES WHICH INCLUDE THAILAND, INDONESIA, MALAYSIA, THE PHILIPPINES AND HONG KONG.

CURRENTLY, THE UK (HONG KONG) GOVERNMENT, REPRESENTED BY THE DIRECTOR OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES, DR LAWRENCE LEE 19 CDMSCS'S CHAIRMAN.

MRS CHAN COMMENDED THE CDMSCS FOR ITS SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION IN THE LAST DECADE TO THE DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF FISHERIES IN THE REGION THROUGH

CO-ORDINATION, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND

ITS

INFORMATION SERVICES.

/NEVERTHELESS THE

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