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1962:
1963:
1964:
1965:
1966:
a few British police inspectors, myself included, informally agreed that the answer to the problem of organised graft was a Royal Commission; the question was, who would start the ball rolling and I decided that if our conclusions were justified then I would attempt to show the Home Government why we had reached these conclusions.
Inspector Christopher St John Wallace, with whom I had had no contact, with the support of a few police inspectors, asked then Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home to intervene.
the late Frederick Joss, Fleet Street journalist, sought a British inquiry into the export of gold bullion from London to Macau via Hongkong, believing it was financing international narcotics trafficking.
the Reform Club of Hongkong sub-committee on organised crime and corruption calls for an inquiry.
elected Urban Councillor Mrs Elsie Elliott comes to London, unsuccessfully seeking a Royal Commission from the Socialist Government.
1973: the CHINA MAIL, no longer owned by the South China
Morning Post Group, launches a campaign for an independent public inquiry into corruption.
You will understand more perhaps how vigorously the Hongkong Government tackles organised corruption when you know that since the time I told the then Police Commissioner, in 1963, that his junior officers were being subjected to "pressures" in their divisions and he replied "It doesn't matter", since, in 1964, I formally complained to your Office of organised corruption, no officially-recorded statement has been taken from me concerning the $500 I was twice offered in my station by a runner using the title of my senior divisional officer.
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