After releasing the highly acclaimed promotional video Guarding our City with Faith in 2021, the Force once again collaborates with the winner of the Best Director of Hong Kong Film Awards Mr Lam Chiu-yin to produce the new promotional video Guarding our City with Faith – The Prequel. It will premiere on TVB Jade on June 24. The Prequel tells how the police arrested the leader of the terrorist organisation 48 hours before the hostage-taking incident in Guarding Our City with Faith, which triggered subsequent counterattacks by his followers.

A feature of the Prequel is that the story starts with the daily work of the Emergency Unit (EU). Woman Sergeant Shan, one of the heroines in the Prequel, has joined the Force for 25 years and is currently stationed in EU of Kowloon West. She had met Director Lam before the Prequel was filmed. When Director Lam was on a recce to learn about the life of EU officers in action, all of a sudden he saw that the female suspect being intercepted tried to escape. Shan and her team members immediately chased and subdued the suspect, on whom a small amount of drugs was found. Shan’s bold action and appearance left a deep impression in Director Lam. Having passed the subsequent audition, Shan found herself fortunate enough to take part in the film.

Shan’s acting in the film is eye-catching. In one scene, she threw herself out to save a woman who was trying to jump off a building for suicide. Coincidentally, Shan had handled a similar case earlier. A woman attempted to jump off the roof of a building in Tsim Sha Tsui because of a dispute with her boyfriend. Shan and her team arrived at the scene soon after receiving the report but the emotional woman warned them not to approach her. However, Shan did not give in. Instead, she kept looking for an opportunity to save the woman’s life. The woman slacked off a little as she could not find her mobile phone. Shan took the chance to distract her attention by asking, “Maybe it’s in the handbag on the ground?” In the instant when the woman bent down, hockey-lover Shan immediately exerted her well-trained explosive sprint power to rush forward and pull the woman back, with the crisis resolved successfully. By integrating the real saving experience into her acting, Shan hopes to make the video more exciting and realistic so that the audience would feel like being at the scene.

Shan finds it a great honour to act in the Prequel, “I hope this new promotional video can further demonstrate the professionalism and solidarity of the Hong Kong Police Force. As long as every member of the Force works together wholeheartedly, we will not be frightened by any smears and challenges. Even if the terrorists depicted in the video are encountered, we will definitely crack them to maintain law and order.”