The Force sent eight officers to attend two INTERPOL conferences in Singapore from May 22 to 24 with the aim of discussing strategies to combat international organized crime and financial crime.

The 20th meeting of the INTERPOL Asia-Pacific Expert Group (APEG) on Organized Crime was held under Project Asian Organized Crime. It brought together crime managers of various jurisdictions to facilitate intelligence exchange and foster joint operations in the Asia-Pacific region. Chief Superintendent (CSP) Man Tat-shing of Organized Crime and Triad Bureau (OCTB) led Senior Inspector (SIP) Chau Man-hin of OCTB, SIP Hui Nok from Regional Crime Unit (RCU) of Hong Kong Island, and SIP Man Cheuk-hei from RCU of New Territories South to attend the meeting.

As Man Tat-shing was re-elected as Chairman of APEG for a term of two years, he led the attendees to develop strategies in fighting international organized crime as well as illegal bookmaking activities in the 2018 FIFA World Cup. He said with cross-boundary organized crime becoming increasingly prevalent over the past decade, the international network in fighting such crime must be strengthened.

On the other hand, four Force delegates attended the sixth meeting of the INTERPOL Anti-Transnational Financial Crime (ATFC) Working Group. They were CSP Tsang Ching-fo and Superintendent Kwan Chung-yin of Commercial Crime Bureau as well as Chief Inspector Tam Wai-shun and SIP Chui Ting-yui from RCU of Kowloon East. The ATFC was established by INTERPOL in 2011 in view of an upsurge in international financial crimes. This year, the attendees formulated an operational framework for tackling international social engineering fraud. The framework deals with fraudsters who manipulate their targets by exploiting the targets' trust through telephone or email, or in person, resulting in voluntary reveal of the targets' confidential information, or direct transfer of asset.