Kowloon East Regional Commander Mike Cartwright officiated at the opening of the new Railway District Tsing Yi Police Control Room on December 30 last year after merging of the Tsing Yi and Kam Sheung Road Police Control Rooms (PCRs). The merging signifies the beginning of centralised and unified command and control for Railway District (RAILDIST), greatly enhancing communication and co-ordination of the police resources within RAILDIST with Regional Command and Control Centres.    

 

The project on the new Tsing Yi PCR began in 2009 and completed in  December last year. Combining the two PCRs, alongside merging of three MTRC Operations Control Centres (OCCs), facilitates policing of the railway network and deployment of frontline police officers to incidents in close partnership with the OCCs. 

 

This "PCR-OCC" pairing arrangement has been operating for a long time, facilitating  information flow and decision-making for incidents command and operations.  The Kam Sheung Road PCR has been relocated to Tsing Yi, coming under the same roof, and is very close to the MTRC Super Operations Control Centre. The PCR Controllers can work hand in hand with their OCC counterparts in assessing incidents of any nature in the whole railway network, making informed decisions, and coordinating and deploying resources to deal with incidents of any scale locally or with territory-wide implications. This is very important, given the fact that the railway network is complex and sophisticated. Without effective communication, an isolated incident   or a local service disruption might quickly escalate to a major incident.

 

With the new Tsing Yi PCR, RAILDIST not only can meet day-to-day policing needs, but also is capable of encompassing further expansion in line with the new railway development underway.