EXTRACT FROM "MIDWEEK" 16.1.74:
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(TRAINING OFFICER ADDRESSING RECRUITS)
MANGOLD:
course
But if Jack Cater's ICAC is going to do his job properly and root out police corruption, does it mean he is on a collision with the police force?
CATER:
I believe that it need not necessarily mean a head on collision with anybody. If they are concerned about this, the simple... answer is for them to stop being corrupt. It's in their hands. All I can say is that we are not going to hold back.
MANGOLD:
Police corruption need not always be confined to taking money in return for turning a blind eye to crime. It can spread insiduously into other areas of police activity. Once the rule book is ignored, something as ordinary as the questionning of suspects can, as far as was concerned, sometimes develop its own unpleasantness. What sort of methods did you employ.... I don't want to hear the gory details but I understand on one occasion that a firework was inserted into the anus of one suspect, is that true?
Mmmm... .yes.
MANGOLD:
You did that?
No, it was done...
MANGOLD:
But it was done under your jurisdiction.
I was present let's say.
MANGOLD:
Yes.
Well what effect did that have?
Coh quite terrible....I'd like to get off this subject if
you don't mind.
MANGOLD:
...and that went on for five or six years...
Five or six years.
MANGOLD:
Does it still go on now?
Of course.
Violence is a part of the CID. Very much so.
rights, believes that
1 course the average prisoner doesn't know his the CID is quite entitled to beat him up and he confesses.
MANGOLD:
If this sort of thing together with corruption is to be eliminated, the police will need the services of good young recruits like Mike King, late of the City of London Police. He arrived to join the Hong Kong police last September. Then, he seemed to be the sort of man they were looking for but King wasn't so sure that this was the force he wanted to stay with,
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