With debt-collecting activities going beyond legal limits in recent years, HK Commissioner of Police Dick Lee yesterday proposed a new law to crack down on violators.
His suggestion came after debt-collecting activities involving criminal elements reach a high of around 20,000 cases per year over the past three years.
Briefing the Legislative Council Panel on Security on the 2005 crime situation, he said over 20,610 debt-collecting cases were reported last year. Of such cases, 11.4 per cent involved criminal elements.
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