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..In Confidence
DRAFT
LETTER
To:-
CONFIDENTIAL
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GP Lloyd Esq CMG
Acting Deputy Colonial
Secretary
Colonial Secretariat HONG KONG
FROM
A C Stuart
uart
Telephone No. Ext.
Department
1.
Thank you very much for your letter of 22 March
about the plans for coping with the crime wave. All
concerned here of course appreciate that no final
decisions have yet been taken, either by officials
or by ExCo, and that what you have given us is a
sight of policy at its formative stage. I personally
think this is what co-operation is about, and I very
much hope that we can keep the interchange going at
this informal level.
2. The information about the community drive
against crime and about recruitment to the Auxiliary
Police is particularly interesting. We had been
wondering what the Governor was planning as his
next step in community involvement. Presumably the
difficulty is to achieve this without creating
private vigilante squads with all that this implies.
3. I have shown the draft legislation to our Legal
Advisers and to Michael Wilford (again bearing in
mind that all is still fluid) Our preliminary
thought is that the increased powers for magistrates
and preventive detention proposals are well suited
to the purpose, although the former does highlight
the need to ensure that Hong Kong gets magistrates of
the highest quality.
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