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Written by: Li Fuyuan
2020-03-27 02:12
Last updated: 2020-03-27 02:12During the clashes in the Tai Po Super City on December 26 last year, the identity card information of the reporter of "Position News" was deliberately displayed for 40 seconds in front of the live camera. In the evening on Wednesday (26th), a television interview in Hong Kong aired an interview with Commissioner of Police Deng Bingqiang. When responding to the incident, he explained that "colleagues may be too involved in their time".
Deng Bingqiang excuses the police officer's deliberate display of the reporter's ID card in the live video, explaining that "co-workers may be too involved when they do it." (Open TV movie screenshot)
During the interview, Deng Bingqiang said: "Maybe some of your colleagues’ time is too much investment, and it may be, for example, showing a person's identity document on the lens. Doing it wrong or doing it well In the first place, I do n’t want to talk to my colleague, it ’s not right, I do n’t stop first. ”
He also said that the police "has made tens of thousands of decisions every day," and it is difficult to make no mistakes. He hopes that the police and reporters will understand each other. He said that he was meeting with a number of journalist organizations and hoped that one day "frontline reporters and police officers could sit together and talk".
On December 26, 2019, a police officer showed the identity card of the reporter of "Position News" to the live broadcast for nearly tens of seconds, and clearly displayed the reporter's personal information. (Picture from Position News)
On December 26 last year, netizens called for a "masked day with you SHOP" in shopping malls in various districts. Among them, a reporter from "Position News" interviewed at the scene in Tai Po Super City was intercepted by plainclothes police officers to show their ID Later, the police officer showed the reporter ’s Legislative Council press card, journalist ’s press card and ID card to the reporter ’s live video for nearly tens of seconds, and clearly displayed the reporter ’s personal information. The Hong Kong Journalists Association and the Hong Kong Photojournalist Association jointly issued a statement afterwards that strongly condemned the police officers' actions and asked the Privacy Commissioner to intervene in the investigation and follow-up.
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