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Written by: Huang Yongyu Zheng Qiuling
2020-02-26 14:18
Last updated: 2020-02-26 14:24The latest budget of the Police Force in the "Budget" is nearly 25.8 billion yuan, an increase of 24.7% over the 2019 budget. It is expected that the Police Force will increase about 2542 non-directorate posts and 1 directorate post by March 31 next year. Among them, the budget of the “Working Units”, which handles public activities, crowd management, and plans to deal with riots, increased by 17.9% to 5.64 billion yuan, and it will increase 966 positions to strengthen operational capabilities.
In addition, the expenditure for "special purpose materials and equipment" for the purchase of equipment reached 612 million yuan in the current year, which is more than double the 300 million yuan in 2019-20. It has more than doubled to 534 million yuan, including the replacement of 6 armored vehicles, as well as a number of fast pursuit boats, patrol police vessels, and high-speed assault landing craft.
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The highest increase in "Work Unit Work" includes handling public activities. <br /> The Police Department's budget is divided into four parts, namely "Maintaining Public Order", "Preventing and Detecting Crimes", "Road Safety" and "Work Unit Work". Among them, "mobile work" increased the most, from a revised budget of 4.788 billion last year to 5.743 billion, an increase of 17.9%. Documents show that the purpose of this column includes handling major security incidents and public activities, preventing and detecting illegal immigration and smuggling activities.
The police also disclosed in the documents that this year they will pay attention to the cooperation with all relevant agencies, implement a multi-agency cooperation prevention model, take the initiative to carry out intelligence-led counter-terrorism activities, and crack down on radical actions by people and groups in the region.
Followed by "maintaining public order", an increase of 7% over the previous year's revised budget, from 11.559 billion to 12.363 billion, and the proportion of the budget amount is also the heaviest. The task is to deploy military personnel to patrol everywhere. "Prevention and detection of crimes" accounted for 5.291 billion, an increase of 8.9%. The police mentioned that this year they will pay special attention to conducting criminal investigations on social events in June 2019 to bring criminals to justice.
The police establishment increased by 2543, which is an increase of 7% from the current 35,863. (Profile picture)
2453 new jobs created, up 7%
The police also said that the increase in budgetary expenditure was mainly due to the increase in posts to strengthen capacity and increase operating expenses. Data show that "maintenance of public order" increased by 1,132 positions, "prevention and detection of crimes" increased by 407 positions, "road safety" increased by 38 positions, and "mobile work" increased by 966 positions, totaling 2452 people. Together with one directorate post, the strength of the Police Force will increase to 38,406, which is an increase of 7% from the current 35,863.
On the evening of November 17, a sharply armed armored car was struck by a petrol bomb in the red tunnel flyover outside PolyU, and there was a fire. (Profile picture / Photo by Li Zetong)
Replacement of 6 armored vehicles <br /> In addition, in terms of non-operating accounts, the overall allocation for the purchase of "Police Special Purpose Vehicles" including water cannon vehicles reached 138 million yuan, an increase of 42.647 million yuan over 19/20 ( 44.7%). In addition, non-operating appropriations for the purchase of vehicles, equipment, and projects also increased from 248 million to 534 million, including the replacement of 6 armored vehicles, each worth 12 million, with a total of about 75 million. The Annual Appropriation Bill was submitted to the Legislative Council for approval.
Looking back on the budgets of the past years, police expenditure has risen steadily, and for the first time in 19-20, the budget exceeded 20 billion yuan.
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