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From
Sir L. Monson
David Trench G.OMG M.C.
H.E. Sir Hugh Norman-Walker, D
25
Telephone No. & Ext.
KCMG, OBE,
Department
Government House,
HONG KONG
...In Confidence
I am
sorry
that it has taken us so long to let you
have
A
(barak. fletter)
G
you
We promised to send you our views on the
You
various points raised by the Governor in his letter
1970
to me of 6 August, about the upward trend in violent
crime in Hong
Kang.
~ We agree that the figures are disturbing, but
the pattern is the same in many other places and is, I
am afraid, symptomatic of the times in which we live.
The impact on Hong Kong is no doubt more sharply felt
because of the high population density, but you are Qu fartunate in having an extremely efficient police
force to cope with the situation and to maintain →→
high detection rate of reported com.
3
Stechn
We have attempted to seek comparisons between
the situation in Hong Kong and that obtaining elsewhere,
been warned
but have come to the conclusion that such comparisons
tend to be misleading
serve little useful purpose since so many local
factors affect the issue. For instance, there is wide
from one place to another
variation in the local-definitions of what constitutes
a crime or a particular kind of crime. Again, there
are differences in public attitudes towards the
reporting of offences as well as in police recording
practice and in the methods used for collecting and
compiling statistics. However, you may be interested
to have, for what they are worth to you, the enclosed
he figures of certain indictable offences known to t
/police
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