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INFO IMMEDIATE UKREP JLG HONG KONG, BTC HONG KONG

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MIPT : INCIDENT ON 3 MAY IN HONG KONG WATERS : RETURN OF 3 CARS

1. BEGINS

PRESS RELEASE

1. ON THE MORNING OF 25 JULY AND 26 JULY, SENIOR OFFICIALS FROM GUANGDONG AND HONG KONG RESPECTIVELY LED BY MR CHEN WEN-LI, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, PUBLIC SECURITY DEPARTMENT, GUANGDONG PROVINCE AND MR CA J SHEPPARD, DEPUTY COMMISSIONER, OPERATIONS, RHKP HELD A FRIENDLY DISCUSSION AT SHENZHEN AND AT TAI PO, HONG KONG ON THE ISSUES OF ANTI-ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, ANTI-SMUGGLING AND RELATED MATTERS.

2. BOTH SIDES HAVE EXCHANGED INFORMATION WITH RESPECT TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FROM CHINA TO HONG KONG, SMUGGLING ACTIVITIES AT SEA AND OTHER ISSUES. THE MEETING AGREED FURTHER TO STRENGTHEN COOPERATION AND CONSIDERED MEASURES AND TACTICS IN ORDER TO COMBAT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, SPEED BOAT SMUGGLING ACTIVITIES AND IN PARTICULAR THE ILLEGAL TRANSPORTATION OF FIREARMS AND OTHER RELATED PROBLEMS BETWEEN THE TWO TERRITORIES.

3. DURING THE MEETING, FOR THE PURPOSES OF PROSECUTING THE SUSPECTS AND THE NEED TO CONCLUDE THE CASE AS WELL AS TO RETURN THE CARS TO OWNERS, THE HONG KONG DELEGATION REQUESTED THE GUANGDONG AUTHORITIES TO RELEASE THE THREE VEHICLES WHICH WERE CONFISCATED IN THE QUOTE 3RD MAY UNQUOTE SMUGGLING INCIDENT. HAVING VERIFIED THE DETAILED PARTICULARS OF THE VEHICLES, AND HAVING CONSIDERED THE REQUIREMENT OF THE HONG KONG SIDE FOR EXHIBITS AND FOR CONCLUDING THE CASE, AND THE MORAL PRINCIPLE OF RETURNING STOLEN PROPERTY TO THE ORIGINAL OWNER, AS WELL AS THE FRIENDLY COOPERATION AND GOOD RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE TWO SIDES, THE GUANGDONG DELEGATION AGREED TO RETURN THE THREE VEHICLES TO THE ROYAL HONG KONG POLICE. THE

HONG KONG DELEGATION EXPRESSED THANKS FOR THIS.

4. BOTH SIDES EXPRESSED APPRECIATION FOR THE GOOD COOPERATION

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