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Christy Leung

A Hong Kong policeman has been suspended from duty after his arrest for carrying drugs and a stash of illicit cigarettes into the city from mainland China.
Customs officers picked up the 46-year-old, who was attached to the traffic division in the Kowloon West region, at the Lo Wu border crossing on Monday. He was off-duty at the time.
The officers found 0.8 grams of what they thought was the methamphetamine Ice, a smoking flask and 238 untaxed cigarettes on him.
He was arrested for possession of dangerous drugs, possession of equipment intended for smoking dangerous drugs, and possession of dutiable goods. He was released on bail pending investigation.

A security insider said the policeman in question had been suspended from duty.
The arrested officer was not the first policeman held over drugs offences this year.
In February, another off-duty policeman, also 46, was arrested after 1.65 grams of suspected ketamine was found on him during an anti-drug operation in Tuen Mun.
Drug possession carries a maximum penalty of seven years in prison and a fine of HK$1,000,000 (US$128,000).
Earlier this year, police chief Stephen Lo Wai-chung said he was aggrieved and saddened by the rise in the number of police officers arrested last year – up 55 per cent on a year earlier – as he vowed to eradicate bad apples from the force.

The number of officers arrested for crimes climbed from 29 in 2017 to 45 last year. Lo stressed that the force always put a high value on officers’ integrity, and reiterated that the number of arrests was comparatively tiny, accounting for 0.15 per cent of the entire force.
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Security source says customs officers found Ice, a smoking flask and a stash of untaxed cigarettes on the 46-year-old, who was off-duty


Security source says customs officers found Ice, a smoking flask and a stash of untaxed cigarettes on the 46-year-old, who was off-duty.


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