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Police Talk
Li Po Chun United World College is an exciting assortment of people
from different cultures and backgrounds. While this is in no way undesirable
there is a need to clarify issues on law systems and differences. It
is for this reason that the local police force in conjunction with Dr.
Codrington decided to conduct a police talk on the 20th of September.
“Today, you will confess all your crimes,” the policewoman
as a prelude to what was predestined to be a most exciting afternoon
for the first years. Unfortunately no juicy scandals were unleashed to
the already agitated audience. The sinewy policewoman instead conducted
a verbal survey of who had and had not tried drugs. Naturally no one
confessed but she professed to have seen those who had using her “trained” eye.
The lady emphasized a number of crucial points, which students should
bear in mind during their two year stay at Li Po Chun. For example spiking,
which to most students minds, is a far-away fairy-tale phenomenon does
actually happen in Hong Kong, so students should be careful not to leave
drinks unattended in bars and restaurants as cases of rape or theft after
spiking have been reported. The two law enforcement agents also drew
light to the fact that underage drinking is a punishable offence leading
to imprisonment for the offenders both supplier and consumer. Dr. Codrington
also accentuated the severity of Drinking by reminding students that
drinking is not allowed at Li Po Chun and is an expellable crime.
The police officer then reverted to drug abuse, a point on which she
emphasized emphatically that drug abuse is an offence which carries very
severe punishment (death sentence is mandatory for some offences*). To
reemphasize the point for the umpteenth time, the police officer showed
very gory pictures of what has happened before to drug abusers. After
getting very energetic reassuring nods from the students that they had
understood the point, the officer then proceeded to less severe crimes
like spitting and harassment.
As a conclusion to the police talk, students were asked to adhere to
Hong Kong Law in order to make their life in Hong Kong more pleasurable
for both them and the people they will interact with in their two year
stay.
