Also attending the meeting were Chief Inspector (CIP) Frank Law and Sergeant Lee Chi-yuen, from CCB's Technology Crime Division.

A total of 60 participants from 14 countries and jurisdictions were represented at the annual meeting, namely Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, Fiji, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Macao, New Zealand, Korea, Singapore and Thailand. At the meeting, discussions were focussed on technology crime trend, intelligence sharing, computer forensics techniques, training projects and case-study sharing. As part of the discussions, CIP Law gave a presentation on the Force's capability to tackle technology crime, and led a training project to discuss the issues related to police training or enhancement of capability to combat technology crime.

One of the topics that generated most interest among the participants was technology crime training. For this, the Force earned a great deal of praise for the way it helped develop the existing two regional "train-the-trainer" programmes on IT Crime Investigation and Computer Forensics. The Force has provided not only training materials for these workshops, but also trainers to lead each of the 13 programmes.

SSP Man, who chaired the annual meeting, is pleased with his re-election. He commented: "It is an honour for me to accept such a prestigious position as chairman. My re-election underlines the firm stance the Force has adopted to combat all aspects of technology-related crime. The Force has come a long way in developing a strong enforcement capability to support the Digital 21 vision of the Hong Kong SAR Government. Ensuring the cyber security of Hong Kong requires development of close ties with overseas law enforcement agencies for making a fast response to any threats. The meetings of the working party are designed specifically to promote such close ties and the recent conference was no exception."

The annual meeting also provided a perfect setting for forging such ties among the participants. The careful planning of the Royal Thai Police also enabled the participants to sample the culture and history of Phuket Island, in addition to sharing knowledge of high tech crime investigation.

The conference concluded with the Singaporean delegation offering to host the 12th annual meeting in its country.

Commercial Crime Bureau Senior Superintendent Man Chi-hung presenting a Force souvenir to the Criminal Intelligence Officer of INTERPOL's Financial and High Tech Crime Sub-Directorate, Mr Toshihiko Kamon