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duty to act when an offence is committed in his presence,

in which circumstances I had conducted operations against

narcotics establishments in accordance with the General

Authority I held which empowered me so to act, I was told

most emphatically by my Sub-Divisional Inspector, MR W.

MacMAHON, Senior Inspector, that I should not even look

for divans. Second, at my own suggestion I introduced weekly Intelligence Reports dealing with my work, submitted

to MR MacMARON and ultimately to MR CHAN. In these I

repeatedly asked for advice and guidance on certain

problems. No such advice or instruction was forthcoming.

Upon my being posted from Hunghom Division to the Police Training Contingent in February 1963, MR MacMAHON telephoned

me and demanded that I return the originals of my own

reports, which bore his signature and that of MR CHAN, my having replaced them with carbon duplicate copies which

did not carry those acknowledgements. Upon my needing to

prepare representations in reply to the Commissioner's

memorandum of 19 June 1963 I went to Hunghom to retrieve

the originals, which I had wished to submit in evidence of

rebuttal of this criticism which had been made of me.

I was

told that my particular reports had been "lost."

16. My services were terminated by the Commissioner of Police,

ostensibly in accordance with Section 23(1) of the Police

Force Ordinance, with effect from 22 July 1963.

17.

On 17 July 1963, at my request I was granted an interview by the Commissioner of Police, MR HEATH, a meeting conducted in the presence of his witness, MR P.J.CLOUGH, Senior

Superintendent. In the course of the meeting I asked MR

HEATH if he was aware that his junior officers were being

subjected to pressures in their divisions. MR HEATH replied "It doesn't matter."

Alaslin

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