CONFIDENTIAL
2.
Rape and indecent
assaults
Homicides & attempted
homicides
Serious assaults
Robberies with
firearms
Other robberies
Demanding with
menaces
Snatching
TOTAL
1966 1967
1968 1969
1970 (Jan/June)
285
254
274
427
182
48
77
52 57
37
1054
1065
1060
1266
641
4
4
520 1224
1801
23 23
1257
343
396
354
393
171
706 1498 1124 991
474
2956 4514 4665 5461
2766
Also relevant are the figures over the past three years for prosecutions connected with Triad Society activity, which are as follows:-
1968
239
1969
467
1970 (Jan/June)
395
4.
What none of these figures show, naturally enough, is the extent of unreported crime; but we have some evidence which seems to indicate that there is more of this than one can be altogether happy about.
For example when some months ago the Police succeeded in effecting the arrest of a gang of young thieves involved in a number of reported crimes, subsequent enquiries
revealed that a large number of previously unreported crimes had also been committed by this same single gang. far as reported crime is concerned, however, I am glad to
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