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On August 28, Sau Mau Ping District (SMPDIST) received a report from a woman saying that she received a phone call from someone purporting to be a law enforcement officer in the Mainland, who alleged that she was involved in a money laundering case in the Mainland. She was requested to pay a large amount of cash at a specified location in order to prove her innocence. After withdrawing the amount from a bank, she suspected that it was a scam and therefore called the police for help.
Officers from Patrol Sub-unit 2 of Sau Mau Ping Division swiftly contacted the informant and successfully stopped her from handing the money to the fraudster. Subsequently, the officers arrested the suspect who claimed to be a Public Security Bureau (PSB) agent in the Mainland at the meet up point and seized a fake PSB warrant card on the suspect. The case was then passed to District Crime Squad 2 of SMPDIST for investigation. After intelligence analysis and further investigation, the culprit was suspected to be involved in three cases of obtaining property by deception that occurred between July and August.
Afterwards, the informant wrote a complimentary letter to express her appreciation to the officers for their professional abilities and devotion to duty of a very high order. The patrol and crime investigation officers of SMPDIST were greatly encouraged. They would keep performing their duties with professionalism and serve citizens with “Honour, Duty and Loyalty”.
