TNAG-0195-FCO40-231-Emergency-regulations-and-orders-1969 — Page 27

It confers a much wider power than is normal, e.g. in this country where it is confined to the performance of a police officer's duty to prevent and detect crime. We do not know, of course, what

your precise intentions are; but if there are

special circumstances in Hong Kong that in your view

justify the conferment in permanent legislation of a

wider power on police officers we should be glad to

know what these are. There would be advantage,

I feel sure, in our seeing your proposed legislation

in draft..

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