Two delegations of crime officers attended two INTERPOL meetings in Manila, the Philippines, between May 29 and June 2 with a view to discussing strategies to combat international organised and financial crimes.

The first event was the 18th meeting of the INTERPOL Asia-Pacific Expert Group (APEG) on Organized Crime, with Chief Superintendent of the Organized Crime and Triad Bureau (OCTB) of the Hong Kong Police Force Man Tat-shing attending the meeting in the capacity of the Chairman of the APEG. Other Force delegates were Senior Inspector (SIP) Chau Man-hin of OCTB, Chief Inspector Lo Chi-kan and SIP Yeung Wan-ming of the Regional Crime Unit (RCU) of Hong Kong Island, and SIP Li Yiu-nam of RCU of New Territories South.

During the meeting, a total of 43 crime managers from 10 jurisdictions developed new strategies in fighting international organised crime. The APEG was formed under Project Asian Organized Crime, which was established by a Hong Kong police officer seconded to the INTERPOL headquarters in Lyon, France, in 2006, with the purpose of connecting senior crime managers within the Asia-Pacific region and their counterparts in other member jurisdictions for tackling organised crime.

The second event was the fifth meeting of the INTERPOL Anti-Transnational Financial Crime Working Group, which was established by the INTERPOL in 2011 in an aim to combat growing international financial crime. Superintendent (SP) Chan Tin-chu and SIP Chan Kwok-wai of the Commercial Crime Bureau (CCB), SP Chim Tak-ming and SIP Tang Hoi-tung of Crime Kowloon East (KE) attended the meeting. Forty-one crime managers from 11 jurisdictions got together to formulate the operational framework in tackling international social engineering fraud. The Force delegation also gave a presentation on the recently-established Anti-Deception Coordination Centre of CCB at the meeting.

SP Lui Che-ho, who has been seconded to the INTERPOL General Secretariat in Lyon, assisted in organising and facilitating the meetings.