27 Jul 2023明報#8085
28名內地港生 最快月底做警察
Amid manpower losses in the Police Force, senior officials earlier devised a mainland talent-recruitment drive to attract Hong Kong people studying at mainland universities to return to Hong Kong and join the force. The Security Bureau said yesterday that the drive, launched last November, received 447 applications from Hong Kong students studying on the mainland. As of the end of June, 128 had successfully passed the selection process; after completing character vetting and a physical examination, they could be hired as police officers as early as the end of July. Legislative Council documents show that the acceptance rate for local recruitment of police officers at constable and equivalent ranks is about 12%; by comparison, the acceptance rate for the mainland talent drive has so far reached 28%.
面對警隊人手流失，高層早前想出在內地「搶人才」，吸引在內地大學讀書的港人「回流」香港當差。保安局昨日表示，去年11至「搶人才」行動，收到447份內地港生申請，截至6月底有128人成功通過遴選程序，只要完成品格審查和體格檢驗，最快可以7月底前獲聘為警員。翻查立法會文件，本地員佐級警員招聘錄取率約是12%；相比起來，內地「搶人才」取錄率，暫時高達28%。
19 Jul 2023獨媒#8025
警方凌晨演習 模擬大會堂慶祝活動遭恐襲
Police held an anti-terrorism drill in the early hours under the code name “Purple Flame”, simulating several terrorists entering Hong Kong City Hall while a large-scale celebration was under way and launching a terrorist attack.
警方凌晨舉行代號「紫焰」的反恐演習，模擬數名恐怖分子進入正進行大型慶祝活動的香港大會堂，並發動恐怖襲擊。
26 Jun 2023獨媒#7854
居港權請願便衣警全程戒備 甘浩望指執法者強硬態度令港人情緒低落
Today marks the 24th anniversary of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee’s interpretation of the “Ng Ka Ling case” concerning mainland-born children of Hong Kong residents seeking the right of abode in Hong Kong. Father Franco Mella joined several elderly people this morning in submitting petition letters at the Immigration Department, the Legislative Council and the Government Headquarters, continuing their campaign for the right of abode. Six plain-clothes police officers followed the petitioners throughout the procession and remained on alert. Father Mella said disciplinary forces personnel were trained to handle matters with a hardline attitude, leaving society dispirited. He also said that if the government hoped to build a “Happy Hong Kong”, it could consider granting amnesty to people imprisoned for caring about society and giving them a chance at rehabilitation.
今日是全國人大常委會就港人內地子女爭居港權的「吳嘉玲案」釋法24周年，甘浩望神父今早聯同數名長者先後前往入境處、立法會及政府總部遞信請願，繼續爭取居港權，有6名便衣警員一直跟隨遊行人士並戒備。甘浩望表示，紀律部隊人員被訓練使用強硬態度處事，令社會情緒低落。他又指政府若希望建立「開心香港」，可考慮特赦因關心社會而入獄的人，給予更生機會。
23 Jun 2023獨媒#7848
《守城前傳》未有評級 報刊辦：電檢不適用於政府
The police promotional film The Prequel to Defending the City, directed by Dante Lam, premiered at Police Headquarters on Tuesday. Online media outlet The City Magazine found that the film was still applying for film censorship. The Film, Newspaper and Article Administration Office said the ordinance was not binding on the Government. The Prequel to Defending the City will also be broadcast on TVB Jade this Saturday (June 24); some media have quoted sources as saying that, after assessment under the Broadcasting Ordinance, the television station considered it suitable for broadcast at 9:30pm.
警方宣傳片、由林超賢執導的《守城前傳》，周二在警察總部首映。網媒《大城誌》發現，該電影仍在申請電檢。電影、報刊及物品管理辦事處回覆稱，條例對政府不具約束力。《守城前傳》亦將於周六（6月24日）於無綫電視翡翠台播映，有傳媒引述指電視台按《廣播條例》評估後，適合於晚上九時半播放。
9 Jun 2023Channel C#7787
灣仔投訴警察課報案中心 6.12起停運
Police said today (the 9th) that the Complaints Against Police Office reporting centre on the ground floor of the annex of Kin Wai Building, 3 Arsenal Street, Wan Chai, will cease operation from June 12. The authorities said members of the public who wish to lodge a complaint with the Complaints Against Police Office in person can make an appointment via the complaints hotline at 2866 7700, while other complaint channels will remain unchanged.
警方今日（9日）表示，位於灣仔軍器廠街3號堅偉樓附翼地下的投訴警察課報案中心，將於6月12日起停止運作。當局指，市民若想親身向投訴警察課作出投訴，可透過投訴熱線2866 7700進行預約，而其他投訴渠道則維持不變。
6 Jun 2023獨媒#6559
警方去信記協 指麥燕庭「無採訪行為」促撤回聲明
Former Hong Kong Journalists Association chairperson Mak Yin-ting was taken to a police station for questioning the day before yesterday while covering the 34th anniversary of the June Fourth incident. The HKJA issued a statement yesterday demanding that police explain the reason for seriously obstructing journalistic work. Police responded in a letter sent the same day and published the full letter on Facebook, accusing the HKJA’s statement of being “seriously untrue” and damaging the image of the police force. As well as strongly condemning the statement, police demanded that the HKJA withdraw it immediately. The letter said police were carrying out stop-and-search crime prevention operations in a “high-risk area” on the day of June Fourth, and that journalists, like members of the public, had no privilege exempting them from being stopped and searched. Independent legal researcher Edward Wong Kai-yeung i said, however, that “that is not how the law works”: police powers to stop and search are exercised on the basis of suspicion concerning an individual member of the public. He also said court cases had clearly established that asking why one was being stopped and searched did not constitute “obstructing a police officer in the execution of duty”, and that journalistic work was not limited to “reporting activity”.
前記協主席麥燕庭前日在採訪六四事件34周年時，被警方帶返警署扣查。記協昨日發聲明要求警方解釋嚴重阻礙採訪工作的原因。警方即日去信反駁記協，並在Facebook公開信件全文，指控記協的聲明「內容嚴重失實，令警隊形象受損」，強烈譴責之餘亦要求記協立即撤回聲明。警方信件提及六四當日在「高風險地區」執行截停搜查防罪工作，記者與市民一樣，沒有免於被截查的特權。獨立法律研究員黃啟暘則認為「法律唔係咁運作」，警方截查權力是基於對個別市民的懷疑而作出；他又指法庭案例清楚闡述，市民查問被截查的原因不構成「阻差辦公」，而新聞工作亦不僅僅只包括「採訪行為」。
25 May 2023獨媒#6499
警隊參加國際賽 主辦方列香港為「國家」 《獨媒》查詢後稱已嚴肅處理
The organiser of an international ice hockey tournament incorrectly played the national anthem when the Hong Kong ice hockey team competed overseas, drawing criticism that the attention paid to “safeguarding national dignity was seriously inadequate”. However, in Police Voice published yesterday, the Police Force listed its achievements at several international competitions. The website of US company MerComm, organiser of the ASTRID Awards 2023, at which the police won eight awards, listed Hong Kong as one of the “countries competing”, alongside China. InMedia asked the police about the matter and was told that, after becoming aware of it, the police had written to the organiser requesting that it deal with the matter seriously and correct its website.
香港冰球隊外出參賽時主辦方播錯國歌，被批評為「維護國家尊嚴的重視程度嚴重不足」。不過在昨日刊登的《警聲》中，警隊列出在多個國際賽事揚威海外，其中一個警方奪得8個獎項的賽事「ASTRID Awards 2023」的賽事，主辦方美國公司 MerComm 的網頁，竟將香港列為「參賽國家（countries competing）」，與中國並列。《獨媒》向警方查詢，獲回覆指警方知悉事件後，已致函主辦方要求嚴肅處理及更正網頁。
3 May 2023獨媒#6398
投考警員取消最低身高及體重要求 另設「警員中英文筆試」
Recruitment by the Hong Kong Police Force has been unsatisfactory in recent years. According to a Civil Service Bureau paper submitted to the Legislative Council in February this year, there were 6,312 vacancies, accounting for 18% of the establishment. Only 654 people were successfully recruited last year, less than half the target. The Police Force announced today that, from 5 May, it will remove the minimum height and weight requirements and abolish the visual acuity test without the use of corrective aids. It will also introduce a Chinese and English written test for police constables, with a pass regarded as meeting the language requirements. In other words, applicants for police constable positions from 5 May onwards will no longer need to attain Level 2 or above in Chinese and English in the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education Examination.
香港警務處近年招聘欠理想，根據公務員事務局今年2月向立法會提交的文件，顯示空缺達6,312個，佔編制達18%。去年亦只成功招聘654人，未達目標一半。警務處今日公布將於5月5日起調整入職要求，取消最低身高及體重要求、以及取消不配戴矯視工具的視覺敏銳度測試。此外又增設「警員中英文筆試」，合格可視為符合語文要求。換言之5月5日後投考警員，不再需要在文憑試中文及英文取得第2級以上成續。
30 Mar 2023明報#6237
警倡52億換通訊系統 前線可傳影畫 採用5G 另建影像平台AI辨疑人 議員促訂使用守則
Police have proposed spending about 5.2 billion to build next-generation communications system infrastructure using a 5G mobile broadband network, enabling frontline officers to transmit voice, video and images in real time while on duty. The system would replace the current terrestrial trunked radio technology, known as TETRA, which can only transmit voice; its cost includes the purchase of about 33,000 radio handsets. Police have also proposed spending about 390 million to build a digital image-processing platform to replace the use of DVD discs to back up video evidence. The platform would include artificial intelligence (AI) image-analysis tools to identify suspicious people and vehicles, enhancing police investigative and intelligence-analysis capabilities in various fraud cases and cases involving national security and public safety.
警方建議斥資約52億元，建立新一代通訊系統基礎設施，以流動寬頻5G網絡，讓前線警員執勤時可實時傳遞聲、影、畫等信息，取代目前只能用作語音傳輸的「地面中繼式無線電」（即TETRA）技術；通訊系統的費用包括添置約3.3萬個無線電對講機。警方另建議斥資約3.9億元建構數碼影像處理平台，取代以DVD光碟備份影片證據；並配置人工智能（AI）影像分析工具，辨識可疑人物及車等，提升警方在各類騙案、涉及國家安全及公眾安全案件的偵查及情報分析能力。
27 Mar 2023獨媒#6218
警方批記協未經查證作揣測 指極度遺憾、強烈不滿
The Hong Kong Journalists Association said it had received reports from several news organisations and journalists last week that they had been followed or monitored by unidentified men. The reports included two men loitering outside the reporters’ room at the District Court last Tuesday (21st). Based on the men’s clothing and behaviour, it was suspected that they were plainclothes law enforcement officers. The police said that evening they were extremely regretful and strongly dissatisfied with the HKJA, criticising it for making baseless speculation without verification. They said this not only damaged the reputation of all law enforcement officers, but also undermined the professional image of journalists reporting and commenting on the basis of facts.
記協指上週接獲多個新聞機構及記者反映，遭不明男子跟蹤或監控，包括上周二（21日）兩名男子在區域法院記者室外徘徊，而基於事件中男子的衣著及行為，懷疑兩名男子是便衣執法人員。警方傍晚表示，對記協極度遺憾及強烈不滿，批評未經查證而作出捕風捉影的揣測，不但令所有執法人員聲譽受損，亦破壞新聞工作者以事實為依據作出報道，和評論的專業形象。
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