TNAG-0687-FCO40-836-Disturbances-by-police-in-Hong-Kong-1977 — Page 220

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ZCZC LTXE15 311309 DXA485 YY TAX

PROHONGA ID LONDON THREE:

CIS 383/77 (ADD)

YSX 33 31-1305 YHE 104

FOLLOWING MEETING WITH SLEVIN, ABOUT 40 PEOPLE WENT TO ICAC HEADQUARTERS.

THE DOORS WERE CLOSED. THEY ASKED FOR ADMITTANCE. THEY WERE REFUSED.

THE GROUP OF PEOPLE THEN REPORTEDLY FORCED THEIR WAY IN, - BREAKING A GLASS PANEL IN THE DOOR.

A SCUFFLE ENSURED DURING WHICH FIVE ICAC OFFICERS REPORTEDLY SUFFERED SUPERFICIAL INJURIES.

ICAC STAFF DIALLED 999 AND REPORTED THAT ABOUT 100 PEOPLE HAD FORCED THEIR WAY INTO THE PREMISES.

HOWEVER, BY THE TIME THE POLICE HAD ARRIVED AT THE SCENE

THE GROUP OF PEOPLE HAD DISPERSED.

A POLICE SPOKESMAN SAID: +THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, MR. BRIAN SLEVIN, STATED THAT HE DEPLORED THE INCIDENT WHICH TOOK PLACE AT ICAC HEADQUARTERS IN HUTCHISON HOUSE, AND HAS ORDERED THE SETTING UP OF A SPECIAL TEAM FROM CID HEADQUARTERS TO CARRY OUT A FULL INVESTIGATION.+

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LCZC LTY 212 211:10 DXPESC

YAX056 31-1306 YHE 105

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PROHONGAID LONDON FOUR:

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GIS 283/77 (ADD)

THE CHAIRMAN OF THE EUROPEAN INSPECTORS' ASSOCIATION, CHIEF INSPECTOR FON HITLEY, SAID THIS AFTERNOON:

+THE ASSOCIATION IS DISGUSTED BY THE ACTIONS OF THIS SMALL !RRESPONSIBLE GROUP OF OFFICERS HO MAY HAVE DESTROYED WHAT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED BY THE RANK AND FILE IN THE LAST 7. HOUPS.

+THIS ACTION IS IN COMPLETE CONTRAST TO THE DISCIPLINE AND

ORGANISATION DISPLAYED OVER THE LAST FEW DAYS.+

ALSO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE LOCAL INSPECTORS ASSOCIATION, CHIEF INSPECTOR LEE YIU-FAI, SAID HE WAS VERY DISAPPOINTED AT THE ACTION BY THE SMALL GROUP OF MEN AT ICAC HEADQUARTERS. HE SAID IT WAS REGRETABLE THAT THE SMALL GROUP HAD DECIDED TO ACT IN THE WAY THEY HAD.

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