TNAG-0551-FCO40-646-Allegations-of-corruption-and-bribery-in-Hong-Kong-police-an-1975 — Page 138

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Group B

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Department

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Source

Police (Hung Hom).

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Mr. Alan Ellis, Ex-Probationary Inspector of Police, living at 20, Bishops Close, Ham Common, Richmond-upon-Thames, Surrey, England, to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs dated 2.12.74 in the form of a statement.

Allegation

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Report

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b.

C

About mid-October, 1962, he was offered a $500 bribe by a room-boy at Hung Hom Police Station known as

allegedly on behalf of the Divisional Superintendent

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Hung Hom Division.

On 28.10.62 a room-boy of Hung Hom Police Station known as

again offered a $500 bribe to Ellis , purportedly on behalf of the Divisional Superintendent Division.

Hung Hom

The investigation was based on a very detailed and lengthy statement by Ellis, part of which alleged corrupt offers and the rest making representations about his wrongful dismissal from the Hong Kong Police Force.

In order to trace the room-boy allegedly known

1, records and photographs of all civilian staff still employed at Hung Hom Police Station were obtained.

as

Eighteen photographs of male civilian staff members of Hung Hom, half of whom were believed to be employed in October, 1962, were sent to A.C. Stuart, Esq., Hong Kong and Indian Ocean Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Cffice, requesting that they be made available for viewing by Mr. Ellis, in the hope that a positive identification of

could be made.

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