HK 香港政府 GIS 新聞處
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DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
- 2 JUL 1974
PKK 19/2
NONDAY, JUNE 24, 1974
PREVENTIVE SERVICE KEEPS UP PRESSURE AGAINST
ILLICIT DRUG ACTIVITIES
PREVENTIVE SERVICE OFFICERS ARE CONTINUING TO KEEP UP THE PRESSURE AGAINST ILLICIT DRUG ACTIVITIES. IN LAND AND SEA OPERATIONS LAST MONTH THE SERVICE SEIZED DANGEROUS DRUGS WORTH MORE THAN $363,000 AT CURRENT STREET PRICES.
THE QUANTITY SEIZED TOTALLED 48 LES OF DRUGS OF VARIOUS TYPES AND NEARLY FIVE LITRES OF OPIUM SOLUTICH.
A TOTAL OF 140 SEIZURES VERE HADE, OF WHICH 106 WERE ON LAND, 22 ON THE OUTER ISLANDS, 10 ON OCEAN-GOING VESSELS, ONE ON A LIGHTER AND ONE ON A MOTOR-COAT. THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE ARRESTED TOTALLED 340.
DRUGS NETTED DURING THE MONTH INCLUDED THE FIRST EVER SEIZURES IN HONG KONG OF THE EXTRACT OF CANAADIS, COHKOKLY CALLED LIQUID HASH.+ THE SEIZUNG WAS MADE WHEN A PASSENGER ARRIVING AT KAI TAK WAS SEARCHED DY PREVENTIVE SERVICE OFFICERS. THE PASSENGER ALSO HAD IN HIS POSSESSION A QUANTITY OF CANNABIS AND CANNABIS RESIN. HE APPEARED IN COURT AND WAS FINED $12,000 OR TIMREE MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT
THE PREVENTIVE SERVICE HAS RECENTLY ACQUIRED A NEW +DRUG DECTECTOR - A DOG CALLED OLIVER UHO HAS EIEN SPECIALLY TRAINED TO SNIFF OUT NARCOTICS.
IT IS HOPED THAT HIS SENSITIVE NOSE WILL PROVE MOST USEFUL TO THE SERVICE IN THEIR CONTINUED DRIVE TO CURB ILLEGAL NARCOTIC ACTIVITIES.
OTHER PREVENTIVE SERVICE OPERATIONS LAST MONTH INCLUDED ACTION AGAINST ILLICIT DISTILLING. THEIR EFFORTS RESULTED IN THE SEIZURE OF FOUR ILLICIT STILLS AND THE DESTRUCTION OF EARLY 3,000 GALLONS OF FERMENTING HATERIAL.
SEVEN RAIDS VERE CARRIED OUT BY OFFICERS OF THE COPYRIGHT UNIT DURING THE MONTH RESULTING IN THE SEIZURE OF 5,354 PIRATED MUSIC TAPES, 1,138 GRANOPHONE RECORDS, 58 PIRATED BOOKS AND 11 TAPE RECORDERS. TEN CONVICTIONS FOR COPYRIGHT OFFENCES WERE OBTAINED IN THE COURTS AND THE TOTAL FINES IMPOSED ANOUNTED TO $52,700.
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Issued by Government Information Services, Beaconsfield House, Hong Kong. Tel: 5-233191
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