Children being quizzed on road safety regulations |
RECENTLY the Road Safety Section of NTN Region organised a series of specially designed activities promoting awareness of road and pedestrian safety for 250 new immigrants from mainland China who are unfamiliar with Hong Kong's road network, traffic signs and regulations. "Many of the new immigrants, especially those from rural parts of China, were quite unfamiliar with what we take for granted - pedestrian crossing lights," said NTN Road Safety Officer WSIP Helen Chan. "In their villages they seldom cross the road according to a traffic signal. Rather, they simply wait for lulls in traffic flow, or try to outrun oncoming vehicles." |
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The function was part of a series of the Region's road safety promotion programme and included a "Getting to Know Road Safety" talk given by WSP (HQ) Anna Lai of Traffic NTN, Family Fun Day and Road Safety Concert, as well as a trip to the Tsing Ma Bridge. Assisted by members of the District Board, local voluntary agencies such as Tuen Mun Yan Oi Tong and the Assembly Church, and accompanied by police sergeants from NTN's Road Safety Section, the participants were taught how to read road markings and traffic signs and given advice and quizzes on road safety. "This was my first direct contact with Hong Kong Police officers, and I was very impressed by their manners and behaviour," said Leung Nga-lai, a voluntary interpreter for the new immigrants and herself a recent immigrant to Hong Kong. "They were extremely friendly, informative and professional. "Before this event, like most of the new immigrants, I would have been reluctant to go to a police station since when we grew up we were given a very bad impression of the Hong Kong Police. So, I was completely surprised to find them so pleasant and considerate. After touring the Tsing Ma Bridge, we went to a vegetarian restaurant, but the children wanted food from McDonald's, so the police officers bought them hamburgers from that restaurant. They children were very happy." | |
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AS shoppers walked past Garden Court
in Pacific Place at lunch time on Christmas Eve, most could not help but stop and listen to the
Christmas carols that added some extra magic to the festive season - a special magic that cannot
be bought with cash nor credit card.
Who were these "Angels" that were enthralling their audience, which at times numbered into the hundreds? It was none other than the Police Choir. |
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Angels all they may not be, but in their sky-blue smocks, the Choir (which consists of police officers and civilians) who gathered together that day with the intention of lifting the spirits of busy shoppers, did just that - and in fine style. "My Peace", "Praise the Lord", "O 'Holy Night" and "He" were sung beautifully. Their audience even joined them when they sang "Jingle Bells", "Joy to the World" and "We Wish You a Merry Christmas". The session was planned to be an hour, but the look of disappointment on the children's faces, and the calls for more as the loudspeaker announced the completion of their performance resulted in a much appreciated encore. After that, as much as the Police Choir wanted to continue, they reluctantly left for their next engagement at Cheshire Home, which proved to be equally inspiring. If you missed these performances and would like to hear what it's all about, then you can catch the Police Choir's annual concert at Shatin Town Hall on 17 April. (For more information call Josephine Yip Pui-lin: 2860-2405). | |
Founder and Honourable President of the JPOA Maria Tam and Peter Woo receiving their copies of Our Caring Force |
LAST month JPOA Chairwoman Cheung Shu-tsang presented the Junior Police Officers' Association photo album marking its 20 anniversary, entitled Our Caring Force, to Dr Peter K C Woo, Honourable President of the JPOA. The special album, with more than 70 photographs including winning entries from a territory-wide photographic competition, along with photos provided by PPRB, exemplifies the working lives of junior police officers in Hong Kong over the past two decades. Representatives of the 60 organisations attending the album presentation ceremony also received copies of the splendid coffee-table size tome, as did over 2,000 of the guests who attended the 20the anniversary ceremony held last October - to whom copies were delivered. In all 4,000 of the albums were printed. |
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A "Foul-Language Free" slogan competition
was recently held in Airport District with the dual objective of creating an improved police
image(thereby providing better service quality to members of the public),and to encourage the
wider use of Chinese in the District-not to mention discouraging the use of foul language.
Sixty-eight police officers and civilian staff took part in the stop cussing contest, with PC22114,ADSRO, emerging as the overall winner for his slogan: Foul language does nothing but impair one's image, while courtesy sends a good message to all. |
 SSP Wong Ka-sing awards a gift voucher worth $1,000 to the first prize winner PC 22114 |
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First runner-up went to PC 52126 ASU for: Excuse me! Excuse me ! Keep foul language away from me. PC 54306 PSUI was second runner-up with: Stop being vulgar and promote a good reputation. Special merit prizes went to: PC 52411 TF;WPC 55380 OSSU; PC 53765 ASU;PC 54192 ASU;PC 53068 PSU; and WPC 55699 PSU 3. Prizes were presented to the above by Airport District Commander SSP Wong Ka-sing during the District's Christmas Family Day. SSP Wong Ka-sing awards a gift voucher worth $1,000 to the first prize winner PC 22114 | |
