Corruption
Question: While you are here, Sir, there has been a lot of publicity
about yet another corruption case involving the Police Force here in Hong Kong. Do you have any personal comment to make or opinion?
Minister:
My personal opinion can be expressed very briefly and very pungently as no doubt yours would be.
Like all of you,
I deeply deplore that there should be occasions for this
kind of publicity for Hong Kong. Like all of you I am very glad indeed that your Government is facing up to it, with an Independent Commission which, I think, means business. I have met members of the Commission, I have been impressed by their determination to do a very good clean job. However,
I hope that comment will not be so over sensationalised as to cast a cloud for too long a time over the very real achievements and the very fine characteristics of life in this community. It is absolutely essential that this curse be lifted from the brow of this hard-working community. I believe it will. One heartening factor is the co-operation from among the general public, which I am assured by those in charge of the Commission, is freely forthcoming. Let
that continue. The Media of course has a very important part to play here, and I am glad to see how very well they are already playing their part.
thanks them for
what they are doing.
Question:
Do you think, Sir, that the present revelation which is
being published in Hong Kong called for a Royal Commission into corruption?
Minister: Well, against the facts as I see them, the fact that your own
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