I have two sons, one aged two years and the other one month. I spent little time with them at home after Operation SOLARPEAK began. Being a police officer, I know I am as important to society as to my family. 

 

At around 3am on October 5, I was informed that about 300 protesters were surrounding some police officers in Mong Kok.  I promptly arrived at the scene with my platoon, and tried to make our way slowly through the emotional protesters. During this process, some protesters jostled, scolded and even insulted us.

 

Finally we made it to the officers being enclosed, but this put us in a difficult situation because we were also stranded by a large number of protesters.  Some of them raised their hands and kicked us at the same time.  All we could do was to continue to move forward slowly through the crowd.

 

Suddenly, I felt a severe pain in my forehead and blood streamed down my chest and thigh. My colleagues immediately handed me a towel to stop the bleeding and squeezed some space for me to sit down. As a platoon commander, I should not take a rest at this moment so as not to affect the spirits of my men, so I continued leading my platoon.

 

I was informed that the Regional Command and Control Centre had summoned an ambulance to the scene, but it could not pass through the crowd as they refused to give way. Therefore, it took me an hour to reach a police vehicle which sent me to hospital.

 

I got five stitches in my forehead.  The doctor told me that the wound was possibly caused by the impact of a stone or a piece of brick.  I was given sick leave but I wanted to go back to my team. However, with the advice of my supervisor, I took a rest at home until my injury recovered, but my heart was still with my colleagues at the scene.

 

I am grateful to my wife for her support. She needs me to take care of her after giving birth to my second son recently, but now it is the other way round. I am sorry about that.

 

 

I have joined the Force for 19 years and have a three-year-old son who is studying in kindergarten.

 

On the evening of September 28, my platoon was called out to assist in defending the police cordon near Harcourt Road. As a Section I officer in the platoon, I was equipped with a helmet and a shield before departing the base on Arsenal Street with the platoon.  When we were passing under a footbridge on Gloucester Road, demonstrators on the footbridge attacked us by throwing bottles filled with water and stones wrapped in pen bags. Under this situation, we protected ourselves with shields and continued to move forward.

 

When we did so, a demonstrator skipped over me to try to launch an attack. I stepped back and raised my shield to avoid him. The momentum made the demonstrator slip backward. As he might hurt his head, I grabbed him, but he kicked me in my chest and left. The other demonstrators did not stop attacking and one of them hit my hand with a hard object while I tried to save a demonstrator from falling onto the ground. 

 

Later, I was given a break to check my injury, and found swelling in my left little finger.  My commander immediately sent me to the medical staff at the scene. 

 

Fearing that the injury might be serious, the medical staff advised me to get further treatment in hospital.  However, having considered my important role to protect the platoon, I decided to stay behind and carried out duties with the platoon.

 

Until 6am the next day, we were finally relieved after working for 12 hours. I went to hospital and found that my left little finger has fractured due to a big impact.

 

 

In my 22-year service with the Force, I have been working as a detective police constable for 12 years.  Since commencement of Operation SOLARPEAK, Crime Formations have deployed detective officers to provide operational support for frontline officers, besides carrying out normal criminal investigation work.  One of our tasks was to take appropriate actions, such as deployment of Crime Video Teams and Quick Response Teams, with priorities based on the operational needs received at the Police Command Post.

 

On the afternoon of October 3, the Quick Response Team members stationed at the Central Government Complex (CGC) were exhausted after working continuously for over 20 hours.  Owing to blockage of the vehicle passageway outside the CGC, Police Command Control Centre instructed officers, including me, to manually deliver food and water supplies from Police Headquarters to CGC via the United Centre.  Although we clearly declared the purpose of our entry to the CGC, some protesters blocked the road and vilified and jostled us.  Despite all these difficulties, we eventually accomplished our task.

 

After mid-night, we delivered another round of food and water supplies, and led officers into the CGC to relieve those who had worked for more than 30 hours. However, protesters reinforced their barricades while other protesters obstructed our entry.  Although we reiterated that we were not dispersing them, the emotional protesters pushed us and even use the barricades as weapon. It took us a lot of effort to pass through them and opened up a passageway merely big enough for a person to walk through to take food and water into the CGC.

 

While handing the supplies to officers inside the CGC, my colleagues found my head bleeding.  I realized I was injured while being confronted by the protesters but I was too preoccupied to feel the injury.  As the wound swelled, the doctor suspected bone fracture but fortunately X-ray revealed no bone injury. Eventually I got stitches on the wound to stop bleeding.

 

I always take the Force as a big family. Though I was given three-day sick leave, I decided to return to work. I take this as a small contribution and support I can offer my colleagues.