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it had launched 1,420 investigations and made 197 prosecutions
resulting in 118 convictions; 39 cases were still pending in
the courts. 54 police officers had been prosecuted leading
to 34 convictions with 14 cases still pending. The Commission
has made a good start and I think that it should be given a proper opportunity to fulfil its task.
RECRUITMENT OF PERSONNEL FOR HONG KONG GOVERNMENT
30. David Ennals told the House in January, in a written
Answer, that we are paying close at ention to this question.
A former senior UK official serves as the Secretary of State's personal representative on the Selection Board for expatriate police recruited from UK.
VIETNAMESE REFUGEES
31. Hong Kong already obliged to accept legal immigrants
from China at rate of some 36,000 a year, with all that this implies for the Colony's over-pressed social services. Moreover, the policy of returning Chinese illegal immigrants would make it hard for people in Hong Kong to accept that non -Chinese Vietnamese, having no claim on the Colony, should be allowed to stay; and in absence of any established Vietnamese community. it would be very hard to integrate them.
32. UK and Hong Kong Governments are both in touch with Americans and Canadians (who have offered to accept a number of them). The question of immigration into this country is.
for the Home Secretary and you will have heard last week in
the House of Commons that we consider sympathetically
applications for admission to the UK from any refugees having
close UK connections. We shall be asking other Governments
to help as appropriate.
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