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It had a monitoring role.
Its morale was high. To make the
point, they arrested six more policemen, including a superin-
last week
He was worried about the police. They feel bruised, isolated, unreasonably berated. To some extent McCoun was right in his pessimistic An effort was now required forecast, though not completely.
The police
tendent /. There is no problem about ICAC.
of the community to bring the police into the fold. had gone to great lengths to improve relations with the community.
A police support group under The community should now respond.
MM had had a long
Sir Denys Roberts had just been started. talk with Wong Lam who strongly felt that community support was required and the police felt isolated.
soon
ICAC
HC enquired whether the ICAC image in UK had been damaged.
still effective. What It was
necessary to demonstrate ICAC was did MM think about a visit of Jack Cater.
as Cater should come GR said that Jack
as possible. MM said the real problem was the police not the ICAC. morale was high, figures of arrests were high. undesirable for the police to feel that there was for them in pickle. A visit by Jack Cater sometime after Christmas might be helpful. GR said he took HC's point about
of ICAC. It was important to keep press support
reassurance
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It would be
a new stick
MM said
there had been contradictory stories in Hong Kong. he was probably referring to stories by Ian Ward in the
had been the second of which Telegraph on two successive days
GR said he would like written after an interview with him. be kept informed of the progress of the police study and give further thought to ICAC. He appreciated there was
of view on ICAC in Hong Kong.
SOCIAL AND FINANCIAL POLICY
to
no dichotomy
GR congratulated Hong Kong on its achievements, especially in But impressions of visiting MPs, e.g. housing and education. Wrigglesworth, continued to be that while there was appreciation
was criticism that not enough was being done. of progress there
Housing, for instance, This impression needed to be countered.
was being provided in great quantity but the units were small and over-crowding, with an increasing population, would grow. There was more land for building than people thought. education there was growing realisation that the
vocational content was good.
In
on strong
There was considerable reserve
on
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