Babysitting a hungry little boy
Professional babysitting skills were demonstrated by Central Division officers during a standoff between the Police and a Mainland woman who had climbed up a tree outside the Court of Appeal, leaving her baby boy on the ground below.
The woman wanted permission to stay in Hong Kong to look after her eight-month-old boy who was born in the territory.
Central Division Patrol Sub-unit 4 Police Constable Li Chun-ho, who has a 5-year-old son and a 2-year-old daughter, took charge of the vulnerable boy.
"He was not too difficult to look after because he was not afraid of strangers. All I needed to do was to keep him safe and make him feel comfortable," Mr Li recalled.
Woman Police Constable Law Yuen-yee later took over from Mr Li as the babysitter. He was so hungry that he tried to suck the antenna of her beat radio. Ms Law, therefore, asked her colleagues to get a bottle of milk from his mother's bag.
While still a child herself, Ms Law had often had to look after her younger sister so she knew how to feed the baby.
After feeding the baby, Ms Law assisted firemen helping a very emotional mother down from the tree. "She was very worried and kept on asking about her son," said Ms Law, "But when she was assured that he was perfectly safe and had just been fed, she calmed down and was eventually sent to hospital with her son.
"As the members of a modern Police Force, we have to be versatile and be ready for duty as a crimefighter, a peacekeeper, a rescuer . . . and, sometimes, even a babysitter!" Ms Law concluded.
PC Li Chun-ho holding the baby
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