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Clifford Lo

Police may upgrade the Tseung Kwan O division into a fully fledged police district after the public outcry over a recent series of chopping attacks on pedestrians, the security chief said yesterday.
The police are  studying the reorganisation of Kowloon East region to see how they can better serve local communities, Secretary for Security Ambrose Lee Siu-kwong said in a written reply to lawmaker Gary Chan Hak-kan.  
The region comprises Kwun Tong, Tseung Kwan O, Sai Kung, Ngau Tau Kok and Sau Mau Ping.
Community leaders have called for more police in Tseung Kwan O after the chopping attacks this month  and a string of teenage crimes that have raised community concern. 
Kwan Ping-wai has been charged with wounding with intent in relation to the chopping attacks on four pedestrians on the night of October 2-3. He has entered no plea and his case has been adjourned until today  pending the receipt of medical reports.
The attacks heightened residents' concerns,  Chan said.  
In July, Sai Kung district councillor Chan Kai-wai said residents were increasingly worried about rising teenage gang-related crimes in Tseung Kwan O.
'Upgrading Tseung Kwan O division to a police district is one of the major issues to be considered,' Lee said of the review. It  will weigh  up projected population growth, land use and infrastructure developments, and crime trends.
Lee acknowledged that Tseung Kwan O has the lowest ratio of police to population in the region, with one officer for every 1,480 people. The area has a population of 404,000.
Lee said the force would redeploy resources as necessary to meet the area's  needs.   Tseung Kwan O has the lowest crime rate   of the region's police divisions, at 558 per 100,000 people. The crime rate is also lower than the average for the city as a whole over the past eight years. 
There were 2,255 reports of crimes in Tseung Kwan O in the first nine months of this year.
 There are 273 frontline police officer working out of the Tseung Kwan O division,  including 18 deployed from other divisions.
'The enforcement capability of the police in Tseung Kwan O and other districts will not be restrained by the administrative boundaries of the police districts,' Lee said. 
'The police will continue to closely monitor the policing needs in Tseung Kwan O and take corresponding measures to maintain law and order.'



Tseung Kwan O may get own police district