Property management and security personnel
honoured
At a ceremony held in Tsz Wan Shan Community Hall on October 6, a total of 45 property management representatives were presented with Outstanding Partner and Best Partner Awards; 75 with Outstanding Security Personnel Permit Holder Awards and 24 with Best Security Personnel Permit Holder Awards.
The 2010-2011 Kowloon East Fight Crime Elites/Best Security Services Awards Presentation Ceremony was jointly hosted by Kowloon East Regional Crime Prevention Office, Security & Guarding Services Industry Authority and Hong Kong Association of Property Management Companies.
In addition, three chosen from the 24 best security guards were presented with Gold, Silver and Bronze awards respectively. The gold award winner, Ho Shun-sing, a security guard of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, was complimented for subduing a man who had stabbed another person with a knife, and assisting the police in apprehending the assailant on the spot.
Presenting the awards were Chairman of Security & Guarding Services Industry Authority, Mr Daniel Cham Ka-hung; Vice-chairman, Ms Jane Curzon Lo; President of Hong Kong Association of Property Management Companies, Dr Cheng Kam-wah; and Kowloon East Regional Commander Suen Kwai-leung. Representatives of Kwun Tong, Wong Tai Sin and Sai Kung District Fight Crime Committees and District Commanders of Kowloon East Region were on hand to show their support for the ceremony.
The award presentation forms part of a crime prevention project initiated by Kowloon East Region, known as Public Rental Housing Estate Access Control Project, to enhance access control of visitors to, and prevention of burglaries in, public rental housing estates. Since the project was launched in 2004, the number of burglaries in public rental housing estates has dropped steadily.
Speaking at the ceremony, Mr Suen encouraged frontline security personnel to step up patrol, remain alert, and keep on reminding residents of household security. He also stressed that police maintain close contact with security companies operating in housing estates to combat crimes committed in buildings and domestic units, including those related to debt collection activities.
Kowloon East Region hoped the award scheme would further motivate the stakeholders concerned to upgrade the standards of their security measures in private housing estates, car parks and shopping centres, Mr Suen added.
Mr
Suen congratulates winners of the Gold, Silver and Bronze awards