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station without fear by the agent who's offering the money, obviously there's something wrong. I think one of the problems is that the staff of the anti-corruption branch are drawn from police divisions and departments and serve there for a period. Obviously if they are corrupt, they are not going to shop their colleagues, or mess up an organisation in the division to which eventually they'll return.
Mr. Law: Well actually a police officer doesn't feel too pleased about having to investigate a police officer, but I can assure you it doesn't deter him one bit at all from doing his job properly.
Interviewer: What sort of temptations are open to the Hong
Kong police?
Mr. Law: The same temptations that are open to any Government servant. Salaries, perhaps are not quite so high as they would like and they want to make a little bit more and if they're in a position to make some more, the temptation's always there. But I can assure you again the temptation is no greater for
a police officer than for any other Government servant who deals with the public. It isn't just merely European police or Chinese police, it is European Government servants and European and Chinese Government servants, as well as the police. We're
all Government servants.
Interviewer: There should be mainly less prosecutions of police than there should be of Government servants, you, in a way,
should be setting an example.
Mr. Law: We certainly should, we certainly should. And so
should all officers in all the Government departments.
Interviewer:
problem?
Mr.
What do you think is the solution to the whole
What can be done?
Ellis: Well I think the first step, as many people in
Hong Kong can sign for, over at least six years, is ... including
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