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The Inter-departmental Counter Terrorism Unit (ICTU) has launched the Logistics Sector “Spot and Report” Campaign since September last year. With this April coinciding with the 6th anniversary of ICTU’s establishment, Senior Superintendent of ICTU Leung Wai-ki and Group Head (Counter Terrorism), Intelligence Bureau of Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department (C&ED) Ms Ho Mei-ling reported the achievements of the campaign on April 22.
For the six months upon the launch of the campaign, ICTU and C&ED have reached out to 67 cross-boundary and local logistics and transport companies. A total of 27 and 60 cases involving firearms and weapons respectively have been received since the start of the campaign. Among these cases, 19 of the firearm cases and 48 of the weapon cases were reported on the own initiative of the logistics sector, showing double-digit increases when compared with the number before the launch of campaign. Apart from arranging staff to attend talks organised by ICTU, some of the companies publicise related information internally or on their intranets to raise their staff’s counter-terrorism awareness. Some logistics companies even arrange to have advertisements posted on their smart lockers to promote the message of “Spot and Report” to the public.
