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plumbers, and other persons who may have to enter a restricted area to carry out repair work. It also appears that if the holder of a permanent permit were to satisfy the Duty Assistant Airport Manager that he had mislaid his permanent permit or had left it at home, he would be issued with a temporary permit.
No one was able to tell me exactly how many of these permanent and temporary permits have been issued; but the newly-appointed Airport Manager, Nr. K.R. Smith, said that he estimated that altogether there might be as many as 9,000.
Applications for Folice permits are processed either through the Police Divisional Superintendent, Kowloon City Division or through the Sub-Divisional Inspector in charge of the Airport Police Station. Superintendent KO Chun, the Div. Superintendent in charge of Kowloon City Division, informed me that, as at 11th June 1973, 48 gazetted Police officers and 138 rank and file had been issued with permits of one kind or another. The 48 included Ir. Lloyd, despite the fact that since 5th March 1973 he has been Commandant of the Police Tactical Unit at Fanling and, it would appear, his duties do not require that he be in possession of a permit. The list of 48 also includes
th name Peter F. Godber.
Godber was issued with a permanent permit shortly after he assumed his duties as 2nd-in-command of Kowloon
District in December 1971. r. Kee-bee KH00, the Airport Manager (Passenger Services) informed me that he had not received any request to cancel Godber's permanent permit; and, on 8th June 1973, I must presume that Godber was in possession of that permit. The duplicate copy of the permit kept by the Airport General Manager was produced to the Commission. is a "red" permit i.c. it conferred a general authority to Godber to cross the air/land barrier. It bears the figures
In other 1-6; and none of those numbers had been blanked out. words, he had unrestricted right of access to all parts of
the airport.
It
One has to remember that although, by 8th June, rumours were rife that a police officer was under investigation by the Anti-Corruption Office indeed many persons may have
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