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And I say that because when I look at the statistics right across the board, everything in Hong Kong, every sort of social need or social deprivation, the good statistics and the bad statistics, the one thing which stands out like the sorest of thumbs is that things starting to go wrong in this particular area. So I do think we have to spend a lot of time on it. Secondly, I hope that when you set out your ideas about what needs to be done, you'll be as crisp as positive about it as possible. And I am sure while you'll be able to produce an agenda of things for us to spend more money on, and I do want to say that I don't think this is an area which should be too constrained by resources. While I am sure you'll do that, I hope you will also let us know if there are areas where we are at present doing things or spending money where frankly we'll be better off saving our money and putting it elsewhere because there is a tendency in Government to assume that whatever is being done at any given moment is pluperfect and anything additional should be added to it. And I don't think that makes for good government; I don't think it makes for good policy, and I don't think it makes for a very effective use of resources.
I repeat I know that not all of you will be able to get in this afternoon, we'll include as many of you as possible and I hope that those of you who don't manage to speak today will be able to talk to me at some future time or put in your views to us directly or to ACAN over the next few months. But I want to say more about that at the end.
We will now begin with the topic of drugs and law enforcement. And to start us off, and I say this after having being recently to the Narcotics Bureau and been impressed by what I saw there, but to start things off, I'd like to ask the Commissioner, Eddie Hui, to say a few words. Eddie.
End/Monday, March 6, 1995
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