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8 February 1977
Mr Frank Hooley (Sheffield, Heeley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what is the extent of illicit traffic and smuggling of drugs into Hong Kong; what quantities of illicit narcotics were found or confiscated in 1974, 1975 and 1976; and how many persons were prosecuted in those years for drug offences.
No W32
MR EVAN LUARD
The Hong Kong Government, attach a very high priority to the prevention or illicit traffic and smuggling of drugs into Hong Kong but since Hong Kong is a free port it is not practicable to carry out systematic checks on all cargoes.
Precise information on the illicit trade of drugs into Hong Kong is not therefore available, though it is clear that the interception of largescale shipments of drugs in recent years has created acute, if short-lived, shortages in supplies of drugs. The quantities of drugs seized were as follows:-
1974
1975
1976
Opium
4,734 kilos
455 kilos
3,553 kilos
Morphine mixture
523 kilos
132 kilos
291 kiloS
Heroin mixture
261 kilos
186 kilos
164 kilos
The number of persons prosecuted was as follows:-
1974
18,453
1975
1976
13,865
12,913
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