The Regional Crime Prevention Office of Kowloon East (RCPO KE) and Wong Tai Sin District Fight Crime Committee jointly launched a three-month crime prevention publicity campaign called "Netsurfing with Ease", starting with distribution of cyber crime prevention leaflets and posters to the factory buildings in San Po Kong industrial area in September and October last year.

 

Following this was a symposium on the latest modus operandi of Internet fraud for Small and Medium Enterprises representatives, students and community leaders on December 12.  Giving a talk at the symposium, Detective Senior Inspector Wong Yue-to from the Technology Crime Division, Commercial Crime Bureau, briefed more than 100 participants on the modus operandi of online commercial crimes, social media deception and Naked Chat blackmail, and gave crime prevention tips. 

 

On January 10, an open-top double-decker travelled around Wong Tai Sin to drive home the importance of technology crime prevention.

 

 

With the assistance from 15 Teen Ambassadors from Project TEENS and other volunteers, RCPO KE and Caritas Community Centre in Ngau Tau Kok distributed rice to the elderly on December 6 last year not only to show care and love, but also advise them to beware of phone and street scams.

 

On Christmas Eve last year, RCPO KE teamed up with the Kwun Tong District Fight Crime Committee (KT DFCC) in staging a crime prevention publicity event, "Silent Night - Racial Integration and Dissemination of Fight-crime Messages", in a shopping mall in Kwun Tong.

 

Among the many participants were 16 Teens Ambassadors under supervision by the Juveniles Protection Section of Kowloon East, including nine Non-ethnic Chinese teenagers.  Crime prevention video clips on real-life scam cases were screened to give the public a better idea of the latest modus operandi of crimes. KT DFCC member, Mr Lam Kin-yau, praised the Teens Ambassadors for rendering a community service.