Policy Objective -
A Secure and Safe City

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The 2001 Policy Address by Chief Executive Tung Chee Hwa on October 10 reaffirmed the high level of professionalism of the disciplined services in maintaining law and order.

The Policy Objective for the Security Bureau, promulgated with the Policy Address, set out the following targets:

* to maintain high safety and security standards in Hong Kong as compared with other major cities

* to reinforce the community's support for strengthening Hong Kong's safety and security

Progress

We have achieved satisfactory results regarding the first target in the past 12 months. In 2000, the overall crime rate and the violent crime rate were 1,136 and 218 per 100,000 population respectively. They are the third lowest in the past 25 years. Our overall crime rate is lower than that of many other metropolitan cities such as London, Tokyo and Toronto.

To achieve the second target a wide range of community involvement programmes were held in 2000 to promote public involvement in crime prevention, fire safety and anti-drug abuse. For example, the Police organised some 13,000 community involvement campaigns with wide-ranging themes including fight crime, crime prevention and road safety. These campaigns proved to be very popular among the general public and attended by over 740,000 participants.

Looking forward

To maintain law and order in Hong Kong the Government will:

* continue to strengthen the ability of the Force to prevent and detect crime

* deploy additional officers to perform frontline operational duties to meet the increasing demand for police services

*explore the application of advanced computer technology to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of daily Police work

In addition, the Police will continue to adopt a two-pronged strategy against crime:

* to prevent crime by deterrence, effective legislation, public education and public involvement

* to control crime by focusing on target activities, crime areas and groups, detention and care of suspects, and improving investigations

The Government and the Force will continue to strengthen their capabilities to tackle increasingly sophisticated international syndicated and organised crimes such as money laundering, commercial fraud or counterfeiting of monetary instruments, as well as computer crime.

 
The Force will pursue the following initiatives and targets to deliver results in preventing and detecting crime:
Initiative Target
To strengthen the capability of the Police to meet increasing operational needs arising from the new transport infrastructure.
  • To create 16 additonal posts by 2002 to meet the new policing requirements for the MTR Tseung Kwan O Extension
  • To create 11 additional posts by 2003 to meet the new policing requirements for the KCRC West Rail
  • To create 20 additional posts by 2004 to meet the new policing requirements for the KCRC East Rail Extension
To ensure that the Police have adequate capability to maintain law and order in the newly developed areas of new towns
  • To create 43 additional posts by 2002 for the enhanced policing requirements in Sheung Shui
  • To create 25 additional posts by 2002 for the enhanced policing requirements in Tin Shui Wai

The Policy Objective for the Security Bureau

Chief Executive Tung Chee Hwa delivers the 2001 Policy Address
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