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On March 31, retired police volunteers and regular officers from the Police Anti-Coronavirus Contingent (PACC) went to the quarantine centre at Chun Yeung Estate to help Civil Aid Service (CAS) check rooms left vacant by confinees after their 14-day stay and refill clean bedding sets. Nearly 100 rooms in Block 2 of the estate were done to ensure items including a pillow and cover, a bed cover, a quilt and cover which collectively called “five treasures” were placed on the bed, together with other electrical appliances were made readily available inside each room.
“We spent a few minutes to discuss and then work out the process. In order to speed up the legwork which involved 38 floors in the building, we parked our trolley cart loaded with full bedding sets on a designated floor; then all of us walked up and down three floors by staircases to deliver necessary supplies in order to save time spent on waiting for lifts to go to each floor. Each round we did seven floors, and we completed the work within a few rounds,” the PACC Deputy Head cum Senior Superintendent Lai Chi-leung said. “I sweated up after five minutes,” said Police Constable (PC) Brian who is the strongest built of the team, and echoed by PC Ka-ki, both are both from Support Wing.
On April 1, auxiliary police volunteers, on their own time, joined the PACC and took up ad-hoc tasks from CAS inside Chun Yeung Estate to conduct surveys with occupants of over 1 000 rooms in two blocks of the estate.
“It was my first time to go into a quarantine centre for voluntary work and to put on and take off personal protective equipment (PPE) during the gowning and de-gowning process; I followed my regular colleagues in ensuring each step is done properly,” auxiliary police volunteer coordinator Leung Koon-boon said.
The PACC has started assisting CAS in manning the quarantine centre at JPC@Pat Heung since March 31. Having worked in another two quarantine centres in Lei Yue Mun Park and Holiday Village and Heritage Lodge of the Jao Tsung-I Academy for two months, members of the PACC have become the most experienced ones in the Force in going through the seven steps of hand-washing as well as in donning and removing PPE. By now they have also left their traces on their anti-coronavirus path in Chun Yeung Estate.
“Once again, our salute to the police retirees who have been working with perseverance and full commitment in the PACC for more than two months, and we welcome auxiliary counterparts on board,” the PACC Head cum Assistant Commissioner Cheung Ching said.
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