A senior police officer caught up in controversy after he allegedly sent officers to harass the 11-year-old daughter of a club associate is to be promoted to the force's commanding tier.
A spokesman said yesterday that Chief Superintendent David Thomas would be promoted to assistant commissioner in a shake-up.
Legislator James To Kun-sun last night described the promotion as 'totally unacceptable' and said he would ask Chief Secretary Donald Tsang Yam-kuen and the Civil Service Bureau to review the case.
Although Mr Thomas was later exonerated, Mr To said it was outrageous to see him gaining promotion after the Complaints Against Police Office ruled he had used his authority unnecessarily by sending officers to the school of the daughter of a club associate in January 1999. The officers were said to have responded to a misleading missing persons report concerning the girl's father.
The father, a former manager of the United Services Recreation Club where Mr Thomas was an unpaid chairman at the time, alleged the incident was arranged to force him to resign.
Former police commissioner Eddie Hui Ki-on proposed handing down a warning to Mr Thomas, but the Independent Police Complaints Council said that was too lenient.
The case was then passed to the Civil Service Bureau, which cleared Mr Thomas of any blame in the case in September 2000.
