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 From Hong Kong's Information Services Department
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December 23, 2005
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Beat drugs
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15 netted for drug offences
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Hong Kong Police

Police have arrested 15 people in Mong Kok for drugs-related offences and seized psychotropic drugs worth about $375,000.

 

Undercover Police officers successfully completed some controlled-buy transactions in an operation that began in November.

 

Mong Kok Special Duty Squad officers raided a disco in Mong Kok Road and a ballroom in Bute Street. Thirteen men and two women, aged 17 to 70, were arrested for trafficking in and possession of dangerous drugs.

 

Ecstasy, ketamine, cocaine, cannabis, and Erimin 5 were also seized in the operation.

 

Police reiterated they will crack down on the abuse of psychotropic drugs during the Christmas and New Year holidays.