TNAG-0490-FCO40-555-Allegations-of-bribery-and-corruption-in-Hong-Kong-police-an-1974 — Page 86

In his letter dated 17th Aug. 1973 and subsequent ones, Mr J.J. E. Morrin, the Director of the Police Anti-Corruption Office, acknowledged receipt of my letters

omplaints and informed me that "the matter is being investigated by

of the Kowloon Anti-Corruption Office.

et has been five (5) months already since the police "investigations” began but the same have produced no definite results. In the process, however, the attitude, remarks and "actions", if any, of the so-called "anti-corruption officers" aroused my suspicion and there have been strong evidence to suggest perpetration of the following malprac- tices/irregularities in connection with the police "investigations",

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1. The staff of the Police Anti-Corruption Branch have corruptly passed on details of my complaints, including my private address, to the suspects and racketeers who repeatedly sent their agents(7 times by a total of 9 persons) to call at my private residence for the purpose of carrying out premediated conspiracies.

This unlawful disclosure not only constitutes a breach of promise of official secrecy made and published in local newspapers by the Royal Hong Kong Police Force but also has resulted in alerting the persons who should be investigated and defeating the purposes of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance passed by the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and that of the investigations ordered by the Crown and Hong Kong Government.

2. The police are not conducting investigations either into the criminal side or

corruption side of my cases and this can well be exemplified, inter alia, by the following facts:-

(a) On 4th Sept. 1973,

of the Kowloon Anti-Corruption

Office, told me that he would ring me within the next few days asking me to call at his Hankow Rd. Office to make and sign some statements so that actions could be taken against the suspects. However, this was only said and was never given any substance.

(b) Over the past 5 months, the "investigating officers" have never taken any state-

ments from me, nor did they record anything in their policemen's diaries in my presence, quite contrary to police rules, regulations and generally adopted investigating procedures.

(c) All the criminals, triad society elements and corruptive police detectives

involved are, as usual, carrying on their variety of illegal activities and corrupt practices.

(d) The corruptive policemen named have not been suspended from duties and are

still working in the Royal Hong Kong Police Force.

3. The "anti-corruption officers" have ties with or at least have been approached by the racketeers and suspects whom they are supposed to investigate. For example,

conveyed to me the information that the suspects and racketeers were willing to seek compromise with me and told me that the police consented to such arrangments.

4. Instead of carrying out their duties, the "anti-corruption officers" tried to "investigate", to find fault with to smear, to discredit and to persecute me under different false pretences.

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5. There have been conspiracies or attempted conspiracies to make untrue reports to

the Crown, to create false evidence against the victim, to distort and conceal from the Hong Kong Government facts of which the police are well aware.

Needless to say, the above malpractices/irregularities not only constitute breaches of duties and disobedience whether as Crown servants or as police officers, but also pose a challenge to the authority of the Crown and the Hong Kong Government; they are symp- toms of corruption on the part of the so-called "investigating officers" suggesting that large sums of money have changed hands as bribery from the racketeers & suspects to obtain immunity from investigations and prosecutions. The Colonial Secretary and/or the Attorney General and/or the Secretary for Security have made orders for investiga- tions into my complaints but such orders have not been properly executed; conversely, the "investigations" into crimes and corruption have resulted in persecution of the victim.

To give you an idea of what the "investigating officers" have been doing and what has been going on with the Anti-Corruption Branch of the Royal Hong Kong Police Force enclose herewith the following confidential documents for your kind perusal, thus:-

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