TNAG-0263-FCO40-299-Problem-of-increase-in-crime-rate-in-Hong-Kong-1971 — Page 57

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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

As

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