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entering the room abruptly, looking at me oddly, pausing, looking away and then moving quickly to my table. He proferred a folded HK$500 note, again saying "D.S.-ee, D.S.-ee. I took the note, as it appeared to me to be when he revealed it from his closed palm, examined it, handed it back and ordered him to "Get out."
10.
11.
I now realised that this was a bribe, and, moreover, that it was a retainor,
had sought from me no act of favour
or forbearance in respect of any particular thing.
I was now in no doubt that I had reason to be afraid. A servant employed in a police station with the approval of my superiors had twice dared to offer an Inspector of Police, myself, bribe retainers equal to some one-half of my monthly salary, in broad daylight, in my quarters, by bold and blatant action, in the title of my Divisional Commander, almost immediately above that superior's office and not a minute from the Report Room. He had suggested that he was the agent of a principal, but whether or not at that stage he was the agent of the particular principal he mentioned I did not know. In any case, whoever's agent he was, this servant had the protection of somebody in the station. He was obviously confident that whatever action I might take whether it had been to seize him and the physical evidence, or to have waited and made a formal report in the Report Room, or to have gone to the man in whose name he had offered `the money, to have reported to the Anti-Corruption Branch of the Police Force he was in a protected position and I was in a weak position.
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12. Two days later, on 30 October 1962, I was called to receive
my first periodic progress report from the man in whose title the bribe retainer had been offered to me.
made heavy, intense, false criticisms of
my conduct of the duties entrusted to me. I replied to his false accusations but was shouted down. For the attacks made upon me there was not one shred of foundation.
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