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introduced. The set included an illustrated booklet entitled 'A Thought A Day', consisting of 20 stories on the dilemmas and doubts encountered by Hong Kong children in their daily life, and a filmlet entitled 'Super kid'. The commission was assisted by teachers in the production and promotion of these teaching materials.

The department made use of the mass media, particularly television, to spread the anti-corruption message. Two programmes, Vanguard II and Money Isn't Everything, were shown on the Chinese channel of the two local television stations. The former was a six-hour drama series depicting ICAC investigations and the latter, which was running in its third year, was an educational series for the young and comprised 13 nine-minute episodes.

By year's end, the commission initiated a joint venture with both television stations to co-produce two mini-programme series. One was aimed at informing the public of anti-corruption laws; the other was a youth programme based on the theme Towards A Fuller Life. These broadcasts will last until May and October 1987 respectively. Mean- while, work has begun on the in-house production of another drama series on the commission's investigations.

The commission's annual multi-media advertising campaign, launched in January 1986, attracted over 900 enquiries from commercial firms and individuals for advice and assistance in a seven-week period. This campaign captured two gold awards: the best film and the best print advertising in the Institution/Corporate and Public Service Section of the third Creative Awards Competition organised by the Association of Accredited Advertis- ing Agents in Hong Kong.

Towards the end of the year, a new series of advertisements was being designed to sustain the impact of the campaign.

Government Laboratory

The Government Laboratory provides an essential and sophisticated scientific support service to law enforcement agencies such as the Royal Hong Kong Police Force, the Customs and Excise Department, the Immigration Department and the Independent Commission Against Corruption.

The scope of work undertaken by the Forensic Science Division of the laboratory is wide and covers investigation into such diverse crimes as arson, burglary, counterfeiting, deception, forgery of documents, fraud, hit-and-run traffic accidents, homicide, illegal manufacture and possession of drugs of abuse, paternity testing resulting from incest, sexual assaults, robbery and wounding. Scene of crime examinations continued to play an important part in the service provided with some 550 scenes attended by laboratory staff during the year. The workload of all sections of the division has increased and the urgent nature of much of the work calls for the use of rapid analytical techniques. The application of recently acquired instrumentation for the semi-automated examination of narcotics as well as organs and body fluids in cases of unknown cause of death has been expanded.

The future introduction of a new ID card has resulted in laboratory expertise being sought regarding suitable inks, paper and production methods. Officers of the Questioned Document Section have also been involved in the examination of materials from cases of complex commercial fraud and in these investigations the new Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrophotometer has been an invaluable tool.

The recently-formed Traffic Accident Reconstruction Unit is now well utilised by police personnel and has proved to be a useful addition to the range of services provided by the division.