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Q.-Do
you
think that they do not take any trouble to deal with such cases?
A.-I do think so.
Q. What is your reason for thinking so?
A.-Partly by the remissness they show.
Q.-Have you during your experience of the Police Force known of any case in which that remissness has been shown?
A. Not a case where they have actually neglected to arrest, when called on to do I do not mean that. It is the fact that they do not hunt up cases of this kind or enquire into cases.
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Q.-Do you know of a case in which it has been shown that this sense of remiss- ness has allowed them to overlook a case where they might have made an arrest?
A.--That is a different thing.
Q.--Can you give us a case?
A. I cannot. I cannot imagine a case of such sort occurring.
Q.-Then it is only a matter of opinion as regards the remissness?
A.--I can only give it as my opinion.
Q.-With regard to the Pó Léung Kuk detectives--you say it is a matter of com- mon rumour that they squeeze ?
A.-It is very common. I think it might be said to be a common rumour.
Q.-Is it a common rumour that the Police detectives squeeze ?
A.-I don't think it is so common. Of course it is spoken of, but I don't think that it is so common.
Is it a common rumour that European detectives squeeze?
A. --I don't know, but I have heard such things said.
You are head of the detective force ?
A.-I am.
Q.--And you say as head of the detective force that it is not a common rumour that the European detectives squeeze, but that it is a common rumour that the Pó Léung Kuk detectives squeeze
A.-I say it is not a common rumour to my knowledge that the European detect- ives squeeze. I am only speaking of what comes to my knowledge. I don't know what people may say behind my back-they might say that I was squeezing.
Q.-Don't you think they might say the same behind the back of the Pó Léung Kuk detectives?
A.They might.
Q.-As a matter of fact it is a mere allegation without proof?
A. Yes.
Q.-Have you šeen any
A.-I have not.
member of this Committee with reference to these matters ?
Q-On the subject of the Pó Léung Kuk?
A.-Nothing whatever.
Q-Nor cases connected with the Pó Léung Kuk?
A.-No.
Q.-You talk about people being detained by the Pó Léung Kuk-did you enquire as to whether they were detained by order or not?
A. Those two cases I have mentioned came before the Magistrate. Of course it was not my duty to enquire about it.
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