Department and other interested branches of Government such as the Medical and Health, Social Welfare, Resettlement Departments and the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, concerned in rehabilitation.
100. Police policy on narcotics is directed by a Committee under the chairmanship of the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Operations) which meets at regular intervals to assess intelligence, to establish and direct effective measures and to co-ordinate action through the Police Force. The Commissioner of Police is also represented on various other com- mittees convened by Government to consider narcotic problems.
101. The Narcotics Bureau under the direction of a Senior Superin- tendent of Police, who is responsible to the Director of Criminal Investigation, serves as an intelligence centre for the collection and collation of information concerning narcotics both in the Colony and overseas. It is in close touch with narcotic suppression agencies throughout the world. Officers from this Bureau attended the Annual Columbo Plan Seminar on Narcotics Offences held in Tokyo in September 1967; shortly thereafter another representative attended the 1st Asian Regional Conference and 36th General Assembly of Interpol held in Kyoto. And early in 1968 a senior Narcotics Bureau Officer visited Thailand for consultations in connection with narcotics control in South-East Asia. Two Commonwealth Police Officers were attached to the Narcotics Bureau during the year, one from the New South Wales Police Drugs Squad (Australia) and the other from the Criminal In- vestigation Branch, Police Department, Auckland, New Zealand. Both were able to familiarize themselves with the Colony's narcotic problems and saw at first hand the work of Police engaged in narcotics law enforcement.
102. Police action is implemented at different levels within the Colony. The Narcotics Bureau is primarily engaged in the investiga- tion of cases which demand specialist and protracted observation and enquiries, such as the suppression of highly organized syndicates, which because of elaborate security measures on the part of the organizers defy detection by routine measures. District Narcotics Squads of the two urban District Police Headquarters and Marine Police Headquarters operate against special targets affecting distribu- tion and consumption. At Divisional level vice squads are concerned with the control of the peddling and consumption of drugs, although the prevention and detection of narcotics offences is a general duty imposed on all police officers.
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