Deputy Commissioner (Management) (DCP MAN) Chau Kwok-leung visited Beijing from September 1 to 3 to support a Force delegation in giving a mobile tactics training course at Beijing Police College.

Ten instructors from the Force, led by Superintendent of the Weapons Training Division Chan Wing-leung, offered tactics training for about 160 public security officers from Beijing and Xinjiang from August 29 to September 9 at Beijing Police College. The scenario-based training covered the procedures of stop, question and search of suspects, interception of vehicles and search of premises. The course, jointly run by the Force and the Ministry of Public Security in different provinces and cities of the Mainland since 2003, has offered training to more than 2 000 public security officers.

Speaking at the graduation ceremony on September 2,  Mr Chau said that the mobile training course was beneficial to both the trainees from the Mainland and the instructors from Hong Kong. He stressed that the Force would continue to enhance collaboration with the public security authorities about tactics training as well as other policing issues. Also attending the ceremony, Director of the Political Department, Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, Mr Heng Xiaofan appreciated the professionalism and dedication of the Force's instructors.

During Mr Chau's stay in Beijing, he also met the management of the People's Public Security University of China. Both sides recognised the results of the reciprocal study programmes of the police authorities of the Mainland and Hong Kong, and also discussed further co-operation in other training aspects.