(c) Granada Television Film:
It is unfortunate that on 17 March a film on the Hong Kong Police Force was shown on Granadu Television which appears to have been deliberately designed to show the Folice Force in a bad light. A transcript of the programme has been obtained and is attached. It has been viewed in Hong Kong and the Governor has reacted to it very sharply indeed. He considers it to be almost entirely "a grossly biased condemnation of the Police for alleged corrupt practices on a wide scale.' Even the small amount of material in it which
might otherwise portray a Force with a proud record of preserving law and order in the most difficult circumstances, has been viciously twisted with an anti-colonial bias,
Governor har suggested that the Prime Vinister may wish to "deplore publicly so scurrilous and dishonest a piece of reporting", if reference is made to it in hostile
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In gathering material for the programze in long Kong, Granada have on their own s Aminei on practised a serious deception on the Hong Kong Government by operating & clandestine unit alongside the overt production team for which official facilities were sought and granted. It seems that very little of the mat rial overtly obtained was used in the programme. Security authorities are investigating a suggestion from Hens; Kong that the programme may have been organised by a "kao badge carrying communist" on the staff of Granada and was possibly politically motivated.
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