Forty-five serving police officers and one retired officer volunteered to assist public hospitals that had to transfer many patients every day during the fifth wave of the pandemic. All these volunteers had completed the Police Oriented Tactical Emergency Medicine Course held by the Police College and were equipped with first-responder medical knowledge. Some were registered nurses before joining the Force. They formed the Police Medic Special Duty Team, attended a training session conducted by the Hospital Authority on March 1 and were sent to three public hospitals the day after, to provide non-emergency ambulance transfers, move patients among hospitals or to isolation facilities, and escort recovered patients home.

A response team comprising 160 officers from the Police College, Personnel Wing, Service Quality Wing and Information Systems Wing was assigned to the Security Bureau's anti-epidemic task force on March 7. Members of the task force managed community isolation facilities located at the Hong Kong Boundary Crossing Facilities Island of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge and in Fanling, and handled admission and check-out procedures for people under quarantine. They also collaborated closely with co-workers in the community isolation facilities to ensure quarantined people received adequate care.

The Police co-ordinated with the Hospital Authority, Department of Health and Food and Environmental Hygiene Department to expedite procedures for the claiming of corpses as the many fatalities during the fifth wave of the pandemic persistently put great strain on hospitals and public mortuaries and left some of the deceased kept in the hospitals before they could be transferred to the mortuaries. The Police took a co-ordinated approach by forming a designated Corpse Handling Team on March 5, consisting of nearly 400 officers from different districts and divisions. The team relocated the deceased to the Fu Shan Temporary Mortuary in Sha Tin from the accident and emergency units of public hospitals, helping increase the daily number of transfers to 200, which alleviated the pressure on the hospitals.

Police officers conducted joint operations codenamed PINETOWER with other government departments, such as the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department, to inspect catering venues and other specified premises to ensure members of the public complied with regulations preventing the spread of COVID-19.

The Police spare no effort in providing staunch support to enforce the Government's restriction-testing declarations (RTD) operations, co-operating with government departments to guide the public in taking compulsory tests to uncover infections in an orderly manner. In 2022, the Police took part in 466 RTD operations. The Force Media Liaison Cadre initiated deployments to restricted areas to help frontline officers facilitate media activities, so that journalists could carry out their reporting without affecting police operations.

Multiple operations were undertaken to tackle fraud related to the Government's Special 100% Loan Guarantee, targeting scam syndicates that made false claims, overstated the number of employees or falsified operational reports. The Commercial Crime Bureau mounted a wave of arrest operations which clamped down on 118 fraudulent loan applications, involving $430 million.

Since March, the Police had been conducting enforcement action on private doctors who allegedly abused the issuance of Vaccination Medical Exemption Certificates, and had liaised closely with the relevant departments to carry out investigation.

Police districts joined hands with the community to launch online activities that encouraged children and teenagers to stay home during the fifth wave of the epidemic and achieve the target of 'Suspending Classes Without Suspending Learning'. The Police also tied up with the community to distribute anti-epidemic service packs and participate in voluntary activities that supported infected residents, demonstrating a spirit of caring and professionalism.

To lessen the workload and infection risk of frontline officers, the Innovation & Solution Lab, in collaboration with the Electrical and Mechanical Services Department, piloted the use of a quadruped robot to support the Fanling community isolation facility between mid-March and late April. The robot delivered daily necessities to occupants in the facility and regularly disinfected itself after completing the deliveries to ensure hygiene.