How did Hong Kong police fail to notice HK$33m robbery suspect Romi was also wanted by Interpol?

Hong Kong police are reviewing their intelligence-sharing system after they failed to realise that a robbery suspect in their custody last year, who was released on bail and arrested again last month, was wanted in India on terrorism charges and Interpol had sent out an alert on him months ago.

Sources told the Post that the 29,000-strong force was looking into the need to alert all frontline officers about suspects wanted by Interpol to better prepare them and boost information sharing with overseas counterparts.

The move was prompted by the arrest of 29-year-old Indian-born permanent Hong Kong ­resident Ramanjit Singh, alias Romi, who has had a red notice out on him from the world’s largest international police organisation since mid-2017.

Singh is accused of committing the crime while he was on court bail over another HK$3.2 million robbery in Hung Hom in March last year.