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23 awarded education boost from Police trusts
 Bright career: Madeleine Chau says thanks for the support of the education trusts, in front of senior officers and guests |
Nine officers' children and 14 Junior Police Officers received scholarships and grants from Commissioner of Police Eddie Hui Ki-on on February 26, at Police Headquarters.
The nine received the bursaries for their outstanding academic achievements in open examinations, while the JPOs completed job-related diploma courses.
They were beneficiaries of the Police Children's Education Trust (PCET), the Police Education and Welfare Trust (PE&WT) and the Police Welfare Fund (PWF), all of which have Mr Hui as the trustee.
Three children who obtained four distinctions in the Hong Kong Advanced Level Examination were each awarded $50,000 while the remaining six obtained seven or more distinctions in the Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination and received $20,000 each.
The JPOs each received $5,000 from a grant newly-introduced under the PWF in 1999 to support officers pursuing private studies to fully develop their potential in serving the community. Mr Hui also presented souvenirs to representatives from the Police Tactical Unit, Police Training School, Personnel Services Branch, Kowloon West Region and the Police Motoring Club for tallying the highest amounts in a fund-raising campaign launched in October for the trusts. More than $600,000 was collected in three months. A host of senior officers and members of the trusts' management committees, including the chairman Raymond Kwok Ping-luen, recipients' friends and relatives also attended the ceremony.
Giving a vote of thanks on behalf of the JPOs, Police Constable Ng Chi-yung of Narcotics Bureau said: "The past few years have seen us juggling between studies and our official duties as police officers. It's been exceptionally challenging and we are lucky to have the full support of our families and that of senior officers and colleagues which I think is indispensable to our successful completion of the courses," PC Ng said.
"After obtaining a Higher Diploma in Public Administration and Management, I'm considering taking up a degree course and hope I'll among the many officers attending this ceremony again in a few years' time demonstrating the Force and its members are always moving ahead with the times."
Madeleine Chau Wai-suen, daughter of Senior Police Constable Chau Cherk-yin who made it to the Hong Kong University's Department of Medicine, spoke on behalf of the scholarship receivers.
"We always wanted to be an ophthalmologist and will use the scholarship to pursue my studies after completing the medical course and a hospital internship in six years.
"I am very grateful for the support and encouragement of the Police trusts."