[ Foreword ] [ Memorable Events ] [ The Hand of Partnership ] [ Operations ] [ Regional Commanders' Report ] [ Personnel and Training ]
[ Management Services ]
[ Professional Equipment ] [ Finance, Administration and Planning ] [ Environmental Report ] [ Organisation ]
[ Annexes and Appendices ]
One thousand three hundred and fifty five Force runners participate in the Law Enforcement Torch Run for the Special Olympics and raise over $540,000 for the event.
The Force is committed to excellence in people development to ensure that Hong Kong remains a safe and stable society and recognises the need to develop its people so that they are fully equipped to deliver the Force's strategic directions. As a means of extending the Force's caring culture to the community, the Force continues to promote the practice of social responsibility amongst Force members in their leisure time.
The Force fully recognises the importance of excellent human resources management in order to encourage the highest performance from its people and to strive for outstanding results. To this end, the Force has established an intensive and wide-ranging strategy with robust systems to maintain Force effectiveness. The Force invests heavily in raising the level of the staff's competencies on an equal opportunity basis, providing structured career paths for junior Inspectors and Constables.
As a major employer in a cosmopolitan city, the Force has continued to strengthen the partnership developed with various sectors of the community and to reach out to potential applicants for Police posts. During the 2014/15 financial year, the Force recruited officers through a host of recruitment initiatives, including Recruitment Day, Education and Careers Expo and Summer Day Camp. About 140 Probationary Inspectors (PIs) and 900 Recruit Police Constables (RPCs) were enrolled by the end of 2014.
Since the launch in 2004, the Police Mentorship Programme has continued to inspire undergraduates from local universities and tertiary institutions to join the Force immediately after their graduation. As a result, about 200 mentees have joined the Force under the programme as PIs. In addition, the Police Recruitment Division organises career talks for secondary schools with non-Chinese speaking students in order to encourage them to pursue a worthwhile Police career.
More than 230 mentors and mentees of the Police Mentorship Programme (PMP) participate in PMP Summer Day Camp.
Education and Careers Expo visitors learn about policing duties at the Force booth.
Personnel Wing spearheads the promotion of a caring and healthy culture within and beyond the Force. In 2014, the Force received the Five Years Plus Caring Organisation Logo from the Hong Kong Council of Social Service in recognition of the Force's contribution to caring for the community, employees and environment over the past nine consecutive years.
The Welfare Services Group helps Force members manage their health, family and work-related problems through interviews, visits and health-related projects and activities. During the year, the Group provided Police Welfare Fund subventions for the Hong Kong Police Old Comrades' Association, the Hong Kong Marine Police Retirees' Association, the Royal Hong Kong Police Association in England and the Hong Kong Police Old Comrades' Association (Canada) to organise healthy lifestyle activities for retirees.
The Psychological Services Group provides professional counselling services and critical incident psychological support to Force members, as well as promotes psychological wellness in the Force. In 2014, the Group focused on promoting appreciation among Force members. Officers were trained in using the T. A. K. E. (Treat your body, Appreciate your role, Know your people and Endure hard feelings) model to prepare themselves for the psychologically and physically demanding tasks they encountered. The Group also played an important role in supporting frontline officers in handling public order events.
The Staff Relations Group continues to work closely with the four Police staff associations and plays a pivotal role in reflecting their views on various issues of conditions of service and welfare, including difficulties faced by frontline officers. The effective internal communication between senior management and frontline staff engenders trust, mutual understanding and team spirit, motivating staff to do even better in serving the community.
Reflecting the motto of "We Serve with Pride and Care", the Force continues to extend caring culture to the community and promote the practice of social responsibility amongst Force members in their leisure time.
In regard to community work, the Hong Kong Police Volunteer Services Corps was again presented with the Gold Award for Volunteer Service and the Merit of Highest Service Hours Award (Public Organisations) by the Social Welfare Department for the outstanding contributions of its 44 volunteer teams. Individual, group and family volunteers were presented with a total of 216 Gold, 232 Silver and 342 Bronze awards in 2014.
As part of the Force's commitment to environmental conservation, Force members continued to support the Government's Green Management and Green Living initiatives in 2014, in particular the Used Clothing Collection Campaign. A total of 110,010 kilogrammes of clothing, toys, computers and electrical appliances were collected for the Salvation Army with re-sale proceeds going to the needy.
In the academic year 2013/14, 58 children of Police officers receive Police scholarships.
The former Commissioner Lee Ming-kwai shares the bitters and sweets of his Police career with the officers at the Balance and Wisdom seminar.
Hong Kong Police Volunteer Services Corps receives a Certificate of Merit for Organisations with 10 000 Volunteer Service Hours presented by the Social Welfare Department.
The Hong Kong Police College (the College) continued to develop its relationship with external training partners, including local and overseas tertiary institutions, as well as Mainland and overseas police training institutions. The second International Executive Development Policing Programme commenced in January. The programme comprised on-line learning plus on-site sessions in Canada and Hong Kong for 26 officers at Superintendent rank from the two jurisdictions. In addition, six international fellows of senior rank from the world of policing provided officers with insights into complex policing issues and strategic leadership. Through leveraging international co-operation, the training served to enhance officers' knowledge and skill sets and to better prepare them for executive leadership roles in respective forces.
To ensure the quality of RPC and PI training programmes, the College applied to the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications (HKCAAVQ) for vocational accreditation of these programmes. After a comprehensive assessment and on-site visit by the accreditation panel, the two programmes were accredited by the HKCAAVQ on June 26 under the Qualifications Framework (QF). Upon completion of training, RPCs and PIs will be awarded the Professional Diploma in Policing at QF Level 4 (at the same level as an Associate Degree or a Higher Diploma in the academic sector) and the Professional Diploma in Leadership and Management in Policing at QF Level 5 (at the same level as a Bachelor's Degree in the academic sector) respectively. The first accredited RPC and PI programmes commenced on July 21 and August 4 respectively.
Accreditation panel of HKCAAVQ watch demonstrations of RPC practical examinations.
In a bid to further engage the community, the College reached out to the community through participation in voluntary services. About 230 PIs and RPCs visited the elderly, youth with Down's syndrome and NEC children in August. With the assistance of a charitable organisation, Doctor Pet, the trainees together with some specially trained doctor pets visited a day care centre for the elderly where senior citizens were delighted to meet and touch the canine visitors.
Hong Kong Federation of the Blind members visit the College.
With a view to developing and strengthening officers' positive emotions and resilience, the College and the Assessment and Training Centre of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) launched the first evidence-based, positive psychology research grounded Emotional Fitness Training in September. The programme aims to benefit every Force member by enhancing emotional fitness, which in turn leads to better work performance and healthier interpersonal relationships.
The College and CUHK jointly design and conduct Emotional Fitness Training workshops.
During the year, the Police Driving and Traffic Training Centre (PD&TTC) initiated a number of projects to meet the Force's emerging operational needs and to enhance officers' performance in traffic and driving duties, particularly in regard to hazard perception and decision-making. The PD&TTC established a new training unit to undertake traffic enforcement equipment training devolved from Traffic Branch Headquarters. In order to reduce the probability of traffic accidents, the PD&TTC is currently collaborating with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University to develop Neuropsychological Tests to assist in the early identification of Police motorcycle riders with relatively low visual attention and hazard perception abilities. Commentary Riding Training will be provided to officers who have relatively low scores in the tests in order to enhance their hazard perception and decision-making abilities.
Detective training turned a new page on September 5 with the opening of a new Detective Training Centre. The Centre was relocated from Aberdeen Campus to the former Lei Muk Shue Operational Base, and incorporates more advanced infrastructure to support various newly developed technology-driven training programmes. These include the development of three-dimensional immersive and computerised interactive simulated scenarios for criminal investigation training, as well as leadership development for crime managers. The Centre has also begun to pioneer the use of tablet computers and radio frequency identification technology in the training and operations of the Disaster Victims Identification Unit, providing a more systematic way of processing and identifying disaster victims.
New Detective Training Centre provides courses on disaster victim identification and related matters.
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