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(The most publicised incident) An operation to stop the
movement of stolen vehicles was mounted near Tap She Kok. A tug and
lighter with three stolen Mercedes Benz cars together with three crew
members and two undercover police officers eventually left a pier at Tap
Shek Kok. Three uniformed man (at least one armed) were also on board.
As they neared the Castle Peak Power Station police launches attempted to
intercept but were prevented from doing so by accompanying speedboats
which were believed to by CPVs. Near Black Point, about 3 km inside
Hong Kong waters, a CPV (Bin Kim 116) went alongside a police launch and
the return of the tug and lighter, cars and crew including police
officers was requested.
This was refused and the vessels eventually
berthed in China near South West Point. The police officers were
returned on the evening of 3 May, the three crew after lengthy
discussions, on 30 May and the cars on 31 July.
A report was received that a CPV with two accompanying
speedboats had intercepted a Chinese trading vessel loaded with
cigarettes near Lamma Island about 10 km inside Hong Kong Waters. Shots
were fired from the speedboats each of which had five or six uniformed
men on board, and the six crew members from the trading vessel one of
whom was injured jumped into the sea where they were picked up by an
escorting Hong Kong fishing vessel. The CPV whilst towing the trading
vessel was pursued by some Hong Kong speedboats, but shots were again
fired from the CPV speedboats and the chase was discontinued.
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