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Mr Murray
HKK 380 RECEIVED IN REGISTRY NO. 51
2 0 JUL 1973
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CALL ON LORD GORONWY-ROBERTS BY MR JACK CATER
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1. Mr Jack Cater, the Hong Kong Commissioner Against Corruption is calling on Lord Goronwy-Roberts at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, 18 July. I attach a brief curriculum vitae of
Mr Cater. Mr Cater has been the Commissioner in charge of the Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) since the Commission was first set up in 1974. Earlier this month however it was announced that in September Mr Cater will succeed Sir Denys Roberts as Chief Secretary, Hong Kong.
2. ICAC was set up as a result of the public outcry that followed the conviction of a senior expatriate officer in the Royal Hong Kong Police Force on corruption charges. The Commission was given wide powers of arrest and investigation, and under its highly dedicated Commissioner it began vigorously to tackle the task of rooting out corruption from all parts of the Hong Kong public service, as well as from the private sector. ICAC had no special brief to concentrate on the police:
it was charged with investigating all complaints that were addressed to it. But inevitably a very high proportion of those complaints related to actions by the police, and cases involving the police came to represent about half of the Commission's work.
3. The Commission's campaign was so successful that by mid- 1977 the Commissioner was able to assure the Governor that all
major syndicated corruption had been eradicated. The Governor and the Commissioner were already contemplating the possibility of introducing some sort of an amnesty from investigation of old cases when the Governor's hand was forced by the near mutiny of the Police in October/November 1977. As a result, the
Governor felt obliged to declare an amnesty that went further than ICAC would have preferred. The press made much of this, declaring that the amnesty spelt the end of the anti-corruption
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