[ Foreword ] [ Memorable Events ] [ The Hand of Partnership ] [ Operations ] [ Regional Commanders' Report ] [ Personnel and Training ]
[ Management Services ]
[ Finance, Administration and Planning ] [ Environmental Report ] [ Organisation ]
[ Appendices ]
The Force places great emphasis on staff development and the recruiting of high calibre candidates with an aim to ensuring that its staff are capable of carrying out the Force's strategic directions. The Force cares for the community, in particular the most needy. Force members are encouraged to participate in activities to promote social responsibility in their leisure time.
A total of 1,625 Force runners participated in the Hong Kong Law Enforcement Torch Run for the Special Olympics and raised some $800,000 for the event.
The Force is well aware of the importance of first-class human resources (HR) management in motivating its people to achieve outstanding results and do their best for the community, and has established a comprehensive human resources strategy along with robust human resources systems. The Force invests heavily in raising the level of staff competencies on an equal opportunity basis, and providing structured career paths for junior inspectors and constables.
The Police Force was awarded the Grand Award of the Year by the Hong Kong Institute of Human Resource Management in this year's HR Excellence Awards 2015-16, in recognition of the Force's pioneering initiatives to achieve strategic goals on the HR front. The Force also won three other individual awards under different organisational categories; namely, Excellent Resourcing under the Recruitment Division, Excellent Technology Innovation under the Manpower Planning Division, and Excellent Employee Wellness under the Psychological Services Group. This kind of formal external recognition of our HR efforts is a great encouragement to the Force, further reinforcing our core philosophy that ‘Our people are our greatest asset'.
During the financial year 2016-17, the Force used a number of target-oriented recruitment initiatives to engage with young people and recruit them as officers. These initiatives included the Police Mentorship Programme and the Auxiliary Undergraduate Scheme for undergraduates, and Project GROWTH for secondary students. The Force also ran recruitment seminars and recruitment days, and set up a booth at the Education and Careers Expo. Its referral system for non-ethnic Chinese applicants continued to operate well, as did its activities for youth uniformed groups and Junior Police Call. The Force also used different social media platforms to get recruitment messages out to young people.
Following the creation of an ‘Overseas Corner' on the Police website last year to attract overseas students to join the Force upon their return to Hong Kong, the Police continued to build networks with overseas universities during the year, through which police recruitment messages can be disseminated to eligible students.
As one of the city's major employers, the Force has continued to strengthen its partnerships with many different sectors of the community as a way of reaching out to a diverse range of potential applicants for Police posts.
Between April and December 2016, 101 Probationary Inspectors and 1,073 Recruit Police Constables were enrolled.
Emergency Unit officers introduce their work and equipment to a visitor at the Education and Careers Expo.
The Police Recruitment Day attracted a large turnout.
The Personnel Wing is at the forefront of the promotion of a healthy and a caring culture both within and beyond the Force. In 2016, the Force once again received the 10 Years Plus Caring Organisation Logo from the Hong Kong Council of Social Service in recognition of its contributions to caring for the community, its employees, and the environment over the past 11 years.
In 2016, the Welfare Services Group implemented the Neighbourhood Volunteer Scheme, which brought together parent and child volunteers from Police Married Quarters to develop strong support networks among residents of the quarters, and to enhance parent-child relationships and promote the personal growth of residents by participation in the Volunteer Scheme.
Project H.O.P.E. (Health, Optimism, Perseverance and Enthusiasm) was launched in 2016. The project included the Force's largest ever talk on welfare, which aimed at enhancing officers' awareness and understanding of the welfare services available to them. Training materials relating to skills for handling colleagues suffering from stress or emotional issues were provided to District Tutor Police Constables.
As a token of the Force's appreciation of the past contributions of Police retirees, in January the Personnel Wing hosted two New Year's luncheon gatherings for a total of over 700 members from two local retirees' associations.
Now in its third year of promoting positive psychology among Force members, in 2016 the Psychological Services Group (PSG) adopted the theme ‘Permission to be Human'. It ran a range of activities in which Force members were encouraged to accept their own limitations as human beings, and face negative emotions and challenges in life with courage.
The PSG also continued to provide post critical incident psychological support to officers involved in critical incidents such as mass rescue operations and hostile confrontations by protestors. The T.A.K.E. model (Treat Your Body, Appreciate Your Role, Know Your People, and Endure Hard Feelings) continued to be used to equip officers with the necessary psychological knowledge and skills to handle public order events. This model received the Excellent Employee Wellness Award 2015-16 of the Hong Kong Institute of Human Resource Management's HR Excellence Awards.
The Staff Relations Group continued to work closely with the four Police staff associations. It played a pivotal role in reflecting their views on various issues relating to conditions of service and welfare, including the difficulties faced by frontline officers.
The Welfare Services Group held a talk on “Know Your Welfare, Support Your Colleagues”, at which officers learned more about their welfare benefits and how to cope with negative emotions.
The Neighbourhood Volunteer Scheme was introduced to enhance parent-child relationships and strengthen neighbourhood support networks among residents in Police Quarters.
The Physical Fitness and Health Management Carnival was held to encourage Force members to take regular exercise, pay more attention to physical and psychological health and remain financially prudent.
The Psychological Services Group's video to help officers deal with emotion won the Questar Awards 2016 Bronze Award (Staff Training).
In April, the Force joined hands with the Community Chest of Hong Kong to run two charity concerts to raise funds for children with special educational needs. Members of the Force also participated in a series of charity events in their spare time, which included the Hong Kong Law Enforcement Torch Run for the Special Olympics, and the Po Leung Kuk Charity Walk.
With regard to community work, the Hong Kong Police Volunteer Services Corps once again received the Gold Award for Volunteer Service and the Merit of Highest Service Hours Award (Public Organisations) from the Social Welfare Department for the outstanding contributions of its 31 volunteer teams. Individual, group and family volunteers were presented with a total of 185 gold, 206 silver and 325 bronze awards in 2016.
In 2016, 1,291 units of blood were collected at blood donation activities, while 32 officers registered for organ donation. A total of 122,390 kg of clothing, toys, computers and electrical appliances were collected for the Salvation Army, with re-sale proceeds going to the needy.
Members of the Police Volunteer Services Corps and Police Band visited an elderly home to play music and give balloon flowers and animals to the elderly residents.
The year 2016 marked the 15th year of the Force's implementation of Knowledge Management (KM). In recognition of the Force's outstanding performance in cultivating a knowledge-sharing culture, it was awarded the ‘Top Winner of the Hong Kong Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise (MAKE) Award', ‘The Best in Knowledge Culture Award', the Asian MAKE Award, and the Global MAKE Award (Independent Operating Unit) by an independent international research organisation in KM.
The Force is the only police service in the world, and the sole organisation in China, to have won a prestigious MAKE award this year. This is in fact the second time since 2013 that the Force has been adjudged winner of the Global MAKE Award (Independent Operating Unit).
The policy unit responsible for steering and developing KM Force-wide is the Hong Kong Police College (HKPC). The College will continue its work of developing a KM culture throughout the Force in accordance with the KM Strategic Plan 2016-2020.
The HKPC regularly collaborates with local and overseas institutions to keep professional standards high.
In March, Pearls in Policing invited the HKPC to host the International Pearl Fishers Action Learning Group (IALG) Seminar Two, at which 18 senior police leaders and six programme management team members from Europe, North America, Asia and Australia discussed issues around the topic of ‘De-radicalisation'.
The HKPC continued to collaborate with local reseach and development institutions on research and development activities for various Learning Technologies projects, such as the feasibility of adopting certain advanced technologies within the Force. Technologies explored for use in training and operations included the Differential Global Positioning System and various Robotic Technologies.
IALG participants held in-depth discussions on a range of topics.
The Force remains committed to enhancing the training it provides to improve officers' psychological quality and help them regulate their emotions, thus enabling them to cope better with rapid changes and new challenges. Since 2014, the HKPC has been collaborating with the Chinese University of Hong Kong in running an Emotional Fitness Training Programme. The training videos relating to this programme landed the Honours Award under the Educational/ Informational Video category in the prestigious International Mercury Excellence Awards Competition 2015-16. Further Emotional Fitness Training is scheduled to be delivered by the HKPC in 2016-17.
In November, the Force finalised an agreement with the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge to introduce a new two-year part-time postgraduate course, the Master of Studies (M.St.) in Applied Criminology and Police Management, also known as the Cambridge Police Executive Programme. Half of the teaching will be conducted in Hong Kong (at the Aberdeen Campus of the HKPC), and the other half in the UK, at Cambridge. Commencing in 2017, the programme will admit selected members of the Force along with members of other local law enforcement agencies (LEAs) and public bodies/government departments, as well as overseas counterparts from the Asia Pacific region. This unprecedented collaboration reflects the Force's long-term strategic commitment to human resources development. It will enable the Force to connect with an influential network of present and future LEA leaders worldwide. In partnering with top academics in the world of police management and leadership, the programme will also help the HKPC to develop into one of the leading centres of excellence for police training and development in the international arena.
The Force reached an agreement with the Institute of Criminology of the University of Cambridge on running a Master of Studies in Applied Criminology and Police Management course.
The HKPC has been successful in obtaining professional accreditation for recruit training and detective training under the Hong Kong Qualifications Framework (HKQF) in 2014 and 2016 respectively. In November 2016, the Education Bureau presented a Certificate of Commendation to the HKPC in recognition of its active support for and contributions to the HKQF. In June, the HKPC on behalf of the Force reached agreements with reputable universities in Hong Kong and Australia on the granting of credit exemption or advanced standing to officers who have completed their foundation training.
To strengthen the capabilities of frontline officers in ways that enable them to meet new challenges in a fast-changing environment, the HKPC has continued to review the content and methodology of its foundation training. By allocating more training hours to scenario-based practical and leadership training, new recruits are able to boost their knowledge and skills while enhancing their confidence in dealing with members of the public.
New recruits underwent scenario-based practical and leadership training to meet the challenges of a changing environment.
To enhance officers' understanding and appreciation of community needs and concerns, the HKPC arranged visits to the College by groups from different sectors of the community to help the public better understand the work of the HKPC in providing professional training to officers. The Police Band also plays a significant role in community outreach. In October 2016, the Police Band launched a new youth engagement programme with a series of musical performances at secondary schools.
The Police Band reached out to secondary schools through musical performances.
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