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 PC Yeung pays a home visit to little Tsui Ho-ki whom he helped save | ONE-AND-A-HALF-YEAR-OLD
baby boy Tsui Ho-ki who fell into a bucket of water while playing at home was saved from drowning
by a cool-headed and quick reacting Emergency Unit Kowloon West Police Constable Yeung
Chung-pang who used his skills in cardio pulmonary resuscitation to bring the child back to life.
The accident occurred on the afternoon of March 1, when the household maid found the baby submerged face down in a large plastic bucket filled with six inches of water on the balcony of the Tsui's Mongkok flat. The child had been out of watchful sight for only a matter of minutes. After the discovery, panic-stricken family members carried the semi-conscious boy outside in search of transportation to the hospital. They came across an EU KW vehicle in Fa Yuen Street and asked for assistance. "The baby was nearly breathless when I took him into our vehicle," recalled PC Yeung Chung-pang of the 4th patrol sub-unit EU KW. "He was pale, wet, had no discernible pulse and was cold like a doll without life." |
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Kneeling down, PC Yeung immediately got to work checking and clearing the infant's airway of any obstruction before administering CPR on the boy as the vehicle raced to the hospital - an eight-minute journey. "The traffic was very congested that day and as our EU car wove in and out of traffic it was very difficult to maintain a steady resuscitation movement," recollected PC Yeung who has been in the Force for four years during which time he has undergone three CPR training sessions in the Police Training School and while at the Police Tactical Unit. In fact, just prior to this emergency he had completed the second phase Basic Life Support-Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation Training Programme. "Fortunately the course included CPR on infants using realistic baby-like plastic models for practice," said PC Yeung. "This gave me confidence to perform the techniques on this baby in real life." After being in the intensive care for 11 days and in recovery for another ten, baby Tsui Ho-ki seems to have fully recovered. "The doctor told me my son's recovery is a medical miracle because his vital signs were almost non-existent when he arrived at the hospital," said Tsui Chiu-cheung, recalling the day he nearly lost his only son. "I believe the CPR performed by Mr Yeung saved my boy's life. I will tell him never to forget that his life was saved by the police and that he must always obey the law." To express his thanks to the police, Mr Tsui presented members of EU KW with a silver plate and a flag praising their dedication to duty. | |
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| THE total number of crimes
involving youths showed a remarkable decrease last year, said Commissioner of Police Eddie Hui
Ki-on at the recent launch of the Hang Seng Bank - Help the Police Fight Youth Crime Competition
1998.
Mr Hui was pleased to note that overall crimes involving youths under 21 had declined by over 16 per cent from 10,066 cases in 1996 to 8,419 in 1997. "These figures show that the efforts of police and the community have made some inroads on combating youth crime," Mr Hui said. |  CP with Hang Seng executives who co-sponsored the Fight Youth Crime Competition with a generous $500,000 |
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"Despite the decreases," he continued, police are concerned about the relatively high figures in serious assault, theft and unlawful society offences involving youths. Police will continue to vigorously tackle juvenile crime through education and publicity programmes with a view to alerting young people to the serious consequences of criminal offences. The Help the Police Fight Youth Crime Competition, incepted by the Hong Kong Police in 1975, is aimed at strengthening the link between police and youths. It has the full blessing of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government and the Fight Crime Committee. The competition encourages young people to put forward good suggestions on increasing public understanding of the serious consequences of criminal offences, and more importantly, to curb juvenile delinquency. This year's competition, sponsored by Hang Seng Bank and Qantas Airways Limited, is co-organised by Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB). Managing Director and Deputy Chief Executive of Hang Seng Bank, Roger Luk, said he hoped that the competition would raise public concern about juvenile crime, and encourage young people to take a positive view of life. He was pleased to see a 10-fold increase in the number of contestants to almost 20,000 in 1996 compared with that in 1994. The competition is open to all secondary and tertiary students, and working youths aged between 15 and 21. It is divided into five individual and one school categories. A new "Book Mark Design" competition introduced this year is open to Primary 4 to Primary 6 students. It is a knock-out competition, comprising a quiz and slogan composition, essay writing and selection interviews. Attractive prizes worth over $500,000 include sponsored tours to Australia and Singapore, cash awards and book coupons. Participants will have the chance to attend a "Fight Crime Concert" to be produced by TVB in July. The 10 winners, who will be awarded trips overseas, will set off during the summer holidays. Apart from sight-seeing, they will be calling on police forces, community organisations and youth groups in Australia and Singapore as Hong Kong Goodwill Ambassadors. Entry forms are now available at the Police Public Relations Branch (PPRB), Police Community Relations Offices, District Offices, and Hang Seng Bank branches (except MTR branches). The deadline for entry is 25 April. For enquiries, please call PPRB on 2866-6137 or 2866-6155. | |
