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TO IMMEDIATE FCO TELNO 1178 OF 15 OCTOBER. 1973
MY TELEGRAM 1140: PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION.
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FOLLOWING IS EXTRACT FROM GOVERNOR'S LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
ADDRESS DEALING WITH CORRUPTION AND THE FUGITIVE OFFENDER'S ACT
AS PROMISED IN PARAGRAPH 2 OF MY TELEGRAM 1140.
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CORRUPTION,
AND NOW I COME TO THE SUBJECT OF CORRUPTION WHICH HAS TROUBELED
US ALL SO MUCH IN RECENT MONTHS, HAS BEEN SO MUCH IN THE NEWS, AND
HAS DONE DO MUCH TO DENIGRATE HONG KONG IN THE EYES OF THE WORLD.
I HAD BEEN AWARE OF SUSPICIONS OF HIGH LEVEL GRAFT AS WELL AS
OF A CERTAINTY OF EXTENSIVE LOW LEVEL CORRUPTION. BUT I HAD ALSO
BEEN IMPRESSED BY THE STRINGENT PROVISIONS OF THE NEW PREVENTION
OF BRIBERY ORDINANCE, I ASLO WAS AWARE OF THE INCREASING EFFORTS
OF THE ANTI-CORRPUTION BRANCH OF THE POLICE DESPITE TREMENDOUS
DIFFICULTIES. IT HAS OF COURSE BEEN THE PRACTICE IN THE UNITED
KINGDOM AND UNITED KINGDOM DEPENDENCIES, THAT CORRUPTION, LIKE OTHER FORMS OF CRIME, SHOULD BE HANDLED BY THE POLICE, AND THAT
WHEN A CORRUPT ACT IS ALLEGED AGAINST A POLICEMAN IT SHOULD STILL
BE INVESTIGATED BY POLICEMEN BUT FROM A DIFFERENT OR A SPECIALISED
UNIT. THAT HAS BEEN THE SITUATION HERE, EXCEPT THAT THE ANTI-
CORRUPTION BRANCH HAS WORKED TO THE DIRECTION OF A TARGET COMMITTEE
LARGELY CIVILIAN IN COMPOSITION. THOUGH FULLY AWARE OF THE
DISQUIET IN MANY CIRCLES ABOUT COORRUPTION, AND ABOUT THE MACHINERY
WE HAD HERE TO DEAL WITH IT, I WISHED TIME TO SEE WHAT RESULTS THE BRANCH COULD PRODUCE UNDER THE NEW LEGISLATION.
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