TNAG-2406-FCO40-3499-Chinese-incursions-into-Hong-Kong-waters-smuggling.-With-pho-1992 — Page 83

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Annual Border Liaison Review Meeting

27 January 1992

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The Annual Border Liaison Review Meeting was held in

The major items discussed were

Hong Kong on 27 January. smuggling and incursions.

Smuggling

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The main smuggling threat comes from the east.

police estimate that between 80 and 100 speed boats are

maintained at Ao Tou and Sun Liao on the west and east

respectively of DayaBay. These come to Hong Kong nightly across Mirs Bay.

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The Chinese readily agreed that effective measures and good cooperation between the two police forces were essential to combat smuggling. But they were reticent when I mentioned the need for Chinese measures against smugglers to be sustained. We obtained a lot of information during the meeting which corroborated the view of the police that the Chinese manage to reduce smuggling during periodic crackdowns but are not managing to maintain their efforts on a permanent basis I pointed out that there had been a significant drop in smuggling in May and June but that it had since revived. The Deputy Director of Guangdong Public Security Bureau, Chen Wenli, said that 2,000 men had been deployed against smugglers from May to July. Guangdong estimated that in May 300 boats had been involved in smuggling. By July they had seized 167. In September a national anti-smuggling conference was held,

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