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INFO PRIORITY HONG KONG, UKREP JLG HONG KONG
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MY TELNO 518 AND HONG KONG TELNO 596: CHINA'S PUBLIC SECURITY MINISTER'S PRESS CONFERENCE
SUMMARY
POLICE SPOKESMAN BACKTRACKS ON PUBLIC SECURITY MINISTER'S COMMENTS ON TRIAD ACTIVITY. ACCUSES FOREIGN PRESS OF MISREPRESENTING MINISTER'S REMARKS. BUT AMBIGUITY REMAINS.
DETAIL
2. CHINA DAILY ON 19 APRIL REPORTED A POLICE SPOKESMAN'S DENIAL THAT TRIAD ACTIVITY IN CHINA WOULD BE TOLERATED. LIN SHIPU, THE MINISTER OF PUBLIC SECURITY SPOKESMAN SAID THAT CHINA WAS DETERMINED TO WIPE OUT ALL KINDS OF UNDERWORLD ACTIVITY AND WAS COOPERATING WITH MANY COUNTRIES AND REGIONS, INCLUDING HONG KONG, TO THIS END. HE STRESSED THAT TRIAD ACTIVITY WAS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN ON THE CHINESE MAINLAND. IF MEMBERS OF CRIMINAL ORGANISATIONS COMMITTED CRIMES IN HONG KONG AND FLED TO THE MAINLAND, CHINESE POLICE WOULD HELP THEIR HONG KONG COUNTERPARTS TRACK THEM DOWN. IN 1992 THE CHINESE POLICE ARRESTED AND HANDED OVER TO THE HONG KONG POLICE 15 CRIMINALS. LIU ALSO SAID THAT DURING A RECENT MEETING WITH THE HONG KONG POLICE COMMISSIONER BOTH SIDES CONFIRMED THEIR INTENTION TO STRENGTHEN COOPERATION IN CRACKING DOWN ON CRIMES, ESPECIALLY TRIAD ACTIVITIES.
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ON THE PUBLIC SECURITY MINISTER'S REMARKS AT HIS PRESS CONFERENCE ON 8 APRIL, REPORTED IN TUR, LIU SAID THAT REPORTS IN THE OVERSEAS MEDIA CARRIED DELIBERATE DISTORTIONS. MINISTER TAO SIJU'S COMMENTS ON UNOFFICIAL SOCIETIES DID NOT REFER TO ANY PARTICULAR ORGANISATION IN HONG KONG. WHAT TAO WAS REFERRING TO WERE SOCIETIES FORMED BY PEOPLE OF THE SAME BIRTHPLACE OR TRADE AS A WAY OF PROTECTING THEIR OWN INTERESTS IN AN ORGANISED WAY. HE STRESSED THAT SUCH SOCIETIES ''BY NO MEANS' INCLUDED THE UNDERWORLD, AND THAT EVEN AMONG GANGSTER ORGANISATION THERE WERE DIFFERENCES AND THEREFORE THEIR MEMBERS SHOULD NOT ALL BE JUDGED BY
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