Nine documentary programmes which take a close look at a controversial police force in action. 2: Chasing the Dragon
In Hong Kong, about one in every
45 is a drug addict. The older addicts still smoke opium. But the young have turned to opium's deadly derivative - heroin. Smoking heroin is called ' Chasing the Dragon '.
The task of eliminating the Dragon' has fallen to the Hong
Kong Police -a task described as like trying to eat clear soup with chopsticks. The drug arrives by Junk from Thailand. It filters down to the street through a tortuous chain of middlemen. Most of these will be Triads-swom to secrecy under pain of 36 ferocious oaths.
In the street-level fight against the' Dragon ', the police can arrest addicts with pathetic ease. But it is not so easy to put behind bars the Mr Bigs - or even the Mr Not-so-Bigs.
Film editor ARTHUR SOLOMON.
Producer JOHN PURDIE
"irst shown on BBCl)