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Multi-lingual crime fight for cosmo TST
Distributing door tags outside a TST guesthouse |
The multitude of different nationals who frequent Tsim Sha Tsui are receiving fight-crime messages in their mother tongues thanks to a multi-lingual campaign.
TST Division has teamed up with the Crime Prevention Bureau to produce eye-catching door knob hangars which feature crime-prevention messages and instructions on contacting police in six languages - Japanese, Urdu (from Pakistan), Hindi (from India and also understood by Napalese), and Bengali (from Bangladesh), along with the obligatory Chinese and English.
TST Assistant Divisional Commander (Operations) Edwina Lau said: "TST has such a varied cross-section of nationalities, a multi-language approach to crime prevention is necessary. With some 300 hotels and guesthouses, the problem of room thefts is constant, especially in hostel-type accommodation which has a very fast turnover of transient, world-travelling tourists," Ms Lau said.
"So the idea of a security tag for doors is not especially new, however up until recently, such notices were mainly restricted to the larger hotels. We are now trying to reach out to travellers who use guest houses."
Feedback has been overwhelmingly positive so far with guesthouse owners saying tourists meeting officers giving out the tags were receiving a positive image of Hong Kong and the Force.