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ELEVEN POLICE OFFICERS WILL BE DISCIPLINED AND ONE MAN PROSECUTED. FOLLOWING THE ATTACK ON HONG KONG'S ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION HEADQUARTERS LAST MONTH. A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN SAID TODAY.
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ABOUT 48 PEOPLE. BELIEVED TO INCLUDE OFF-DUTY POLICE OFFICERS, ATTACKED THE OFFICES OF THE INDEPENDENT COMMISSION AGAINST CDRRUPTION AFTER A MASS PROTEST MARCH BY ABOUT 2.000 POLICEMEN TD POLICE HEADQUARTERS ON OCTOBER 28.
FIVE PEOPLE IN THE COMMISSION OFFICES WERE SLIGHTLY INJURED. THE MARCH WAS THE CLIMAX OF POLICE PROTESTS AGAINST INVESTIGATION METHODS USED BY THE COMMISSION, WHICH WAS SET
UP THREE YEARS AGO TO FIGHT FIRMLY ENTRENCHED GRAFT IN THIS BRITISH COLONY.
THE MAN TO BE PROSECUTED FOR UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY AND ASSAULT WHS NOT NAMED. THE SPOKESMAN SAID +FURTHER INVESTIGATIONS ARE CONTINUING IN AN ATTEMPT TO IDENTIFY ANY OTHER PARTICIPANTS. +
THE SEVERITY OF THE DISCIPLINARY ACTION AGAINST THE 11 POLICEMEN WAS NOT DISCLOSED. MDRE RLH AS
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JUST ONE WEEK AFTER THE MARCH AND MOB ATTACK HONG KONG GOVERNOR SIR MURRAY MACLEHOSE CAUSED A MAJOR
SURPRISE HERE BY ANNOUNCING A RETROSPECTIVE AMNESTY FOR MANY
PRE-1977 CORRUPTION OFFENDERS.
MMILITANT POLICE LEADERS HAD CALLED FOR AN UNCONDITIONAL
PARDON AND THE GOVERNOR SWIFTLY REPLIED WITH SEVERE NEW LEGISLATION GIVING POLICE COMMISSIONER BRIAN SLEVIN THE POWER TO DISMISS
OFFICERS FOR DISOBEDIENCE. THE PROTEST THEN COLLAPSED.
COMMISSION INVESTIGATORS HAVE ARRESTED 120 POLICEMEN
OVER THE LAST TWO MONTHS IN BRIBERY PROBES.
CORRUPTION SYNDICATES HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED
IN ALMOST EVERY POLICE DIVISION RUNNING A MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR EMPIRE WHICH RAKED IN FORTUNES FROM PROSTITUTION. DRUGS, GAMBLING AND INTIMIDATING STREET HAWKERS.
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