Police Commissioner Tang King-shing said sorry yet again yesterday - this time to a Fanling school after its name was leaked as the scene of an undercover drugs operation.
It was the police chief's third apology in five months, but critics said this one might have come too early, particularly when the identity of the person who leaked the school's name to the press remained unknown.
Tang yesterday said he had called Joyce Kwok Yin-mei, the principal of the Church of Christ in China Kei San Secondary School, to offer an apology and to tell her that an assistant commissioner would lead an investigation into the leak.
Security minister Ambrose Lee Siu-kwong also apologised to the school on Friday.
Kwok said she was angry with police on Thursday after media reports that the school had allowed a policewoman to work undercover during an anti-drugs operation in Fanling.
The principal said police had promised to keep all information confidential and the leak had harmed the school's reputation.
The police operation resulted in the arrest of 36 people, of whom seven were charged. In related cases, the District Court last week jailed two drug dealers, aged 17 and 19, for ketamine trafficking.
