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being investigated.
Enquiries into these allegations have now been
completed and the Attorney-General of Hong Kong has ruled that there
is no case and that the enquiry should cease. (The sidelined inform-
ation should be treated as known only to the Governor and Attorney-
General in Hong Kong).
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5. The MacLennan affair and related matters have had a very depres-
sing effect on the Force's morale. Nonetheless, the Force, which
consists of some 20,000 officers and men, continues to carry out its
tasks efficiently and vigorously. There has in recent years been a
significant and very welcome improvement in police/public relations.
There has been a fall-off in expatriate recruitment and in the
renewal of contracts by expatriate Inspectors and Senior Inspectors,
but this is attributed more to dissatisfaction with pay and conditions
than anything else.
6.
During the last 18 months, the Force, and the Armed Services to
an even greater extent, have been preoccupied with anti-illegal
immigration operations. Both have carried out their tasks extremely
well; the ratio of illegal immigrants who evaded capture to those
who were caught was for many years 4 to 1. It is now 1 to 1. This
work is not pleasant and the continued efficiency of those engaged in
it over such a long period is remarkable.
Hong Kong and General Department
September 1980
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