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Water cannon │ Police this year purchased 3 crowd management special purpose vehicles 22,000 police off duty with batons

2020-04-07T17:36:36.168Z


The newly purchased water gun car was launched last year in response to anti-repair demonstration conflicts. Water cannon trucks are commonly known as "crowd management special purpose vehicles." The Security Bureau stated that from August last year to February this year, water cannon trucks were dispatched for 65 days, involving 119 sorties. In the same period, the sharp armed armoured vehicles dispatched 68 times, involving 142 sorties. The Bureau mentioned in the reply of the Legislative Council Special Finance Committee that the Police Force will replace and purchase 387 special-purpose vehicles in 2020-21, including three "newly-built crowd management special-purpose vehicles", indicating an expenditure of 2.7 million yuan. But did not disclose details. In addition, the number of police officers who have received telescopic batons for use during off hours totaled more than 22,000 in February this year, but the number of times they performed their duties during off hours and the number of arrests were not kept. Regarding the "newly set crowd management special purpose vehicle" mentioned in the document, "Hong Kong 01" is inquiring to the police.


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Written by: Zheng Qiuling

2020-04-08 01:27

Date of last update: 2020-04-08 01:33

The newly purchased water gun car was launched last year in response to anti-repair demonstration conflicts. Water cannon trucks are commonly known as "crowd management special purpose vehicles." The Security Bureau stated that from August last year to February this year, water cannon trucks were dispatched for 65 days, involving 119 sorties. In the same period, the sharp armed armoured vehicles dispatched 68 times, involving 142 sorties.

The Bureau mentioned in the reply of the Legislative Council Special Finance Committee that the Police Force will replace and purchase 387 special-purpose vehicles in 2020-21, including three "newly-built crowd management special-purpose vehicles", indicating an expenditure of 2.7 million yuan. But did not disclose details.

In addition, the number of police officers who have received telescopic batons for use during off hours totaled more than 22,000 in February this year, but the number of times they performed their duties during off hours and the number of arrests were not kept.

Regarding the "newly set crowd management special purpose vehicle" mentioned in the document, "Hong Kong 01" is inquiring to the police.

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The police shared 30,000 anti-riot bombs and fired 19 rounds of live ammunition

A series of demonstrations and clashes in anti-revision laws since June last year led the authorities to state that as of February 29 this year, the police had used 16,191 tear gas, 1,880 sponge bombs, 10,100 rubber bullets and 2,033 cloth bag bullets.

In addition, the police used a total of 19 live rounds during the police, which means that the police officer "needs to protect himself or others from life threats or serious injuries to the body, or considers the huge risk and life to the public after the gun is snatched. Threat ". During the same period, the Force used 9 live rounds in other operations.

As of February 29 of this year, the Police Force used 1,491 bottles of pepper spray, 107 bottles of tear spray and about 40 bottles of pepper in its actions to deal with public activities related to anti-revision laws. During the same period, the police used pepper spray 49 times in other operations.

Intercepted 213,000 times and checked ID cards 108,000 times

In addition, from June last year to February this year, police officers intercepted and searched a total of 213,662 times and 108,054 checks of ID cards. The Bureau stated that after the police officers exercise their power to check the citizen's identity card, they must record the incident and basic information sufficient to identify the person, such as name and Hong Kong identity card number, in the notebook. Old notebooks are usually kept for 3 years before being destroyed.

A total of 7,613 people were arrested by the police in connection with the anti-amendment incident. The most arrested month was 2,899 in November, followed by 1,189 in October. According to the date of the incident, the Polytechnic University incident from November 13 arrested 814 people from November 17 to 28. On November 17 and 18, outside the Polytechnic University, a total of 610 people were arrested in other districts. people.

The police force changed to "loyal and courageous". It cost about 200,000 policemen to receive an average of 160,000 anti-fixing actions OT allowance.

Fugitive Offenders│The Police Force ’s new entry last year dropped by 40% year-on-year, anti-amendment regulations, 30% more jumped during the conflict

24 police officers were arrested last year. One person was involved in theft. Two persons were arrested twice in the same year.

[Special Accounting] The ICAC is handling 28 anti-amendment cases involving civil servant corruption cases including police officers

Demonstration of anti-revision demonstration special financial committee of the Security Bureau

Source: hk1

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