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Mr Davies, the Secretary for Security in Hong Kong, rang me this morning to tell me of the latest developments in the Royal Hong Kong Police.
2. You will be aware that one ex-policeman was sentenced to six months' gaol for his part in the attack on the headquarters of ICAC last October. This conviction and sentence has apparently aroused no interest among members of the police rank and file. Twelve other police officers were taken before a Police Disciplinary Board; four of them were sentenced to be dismissed and four others given a suspended sentence of dismissal together with loss of pay. The Commissioner of Police has indicated that he does not intend to review this decision.
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The Preparatory Committee of the Junior Police Officers' Association (JPOA) held a meeting yesterday, 24 January, at which the eight disciplined officers were present. It was claimed that the inquiry into their behaviour had been unfair and the evidence
At given against them such as would never hold in a court of law. a press conference held by the Preparatory Committee today, it was announced that the Preparatory Committee was so aggrieved by the decision of the Commissioner of Police that they proposed to resign. They also complained that the Commissioner of Police had not co-operated with them in refusing to make available an officer to help with the elections for the Permanent Committee of the Association which are due to take place the first week of February.
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The assessment of the Hong Kong Government is that the seventeen members of the Preparatory Committee who include a large proportion of police officers under interdiction and investigation for corruption offences, have chosen this as an excuse to resign. This, because they realize that they have now lost the support of the majority of the rank and file and have little chance of being elected to the Committee in February. By resigning they avoid a loss of face.
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The Hong Kong Police have taken this affair seriously and are proposing to put a European Chief Superintendent and a Chinese superintendent of Police on the television tonight to explain the disciplinary procedures adopted by the Police and to try and justify the sentences and the refusal by CP to make the officer requested available to the JPOA.
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25 January 1978
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