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Time to call out the bloodhounds …

Mystery of the police papers found in Happy Valley dog waste bin. An inside job is suspected

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Five police documents - one of them highly sensitive - have been found in a dog waste bin in Happy Valley.

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Police received a call on Thursday saying the documents had been put in an envelope inside the bin on Clementi Road.

The also reported that it had received a similar call.

Officers rushed to the scene and found the five documents. One of them was a security assessment report of a control room at the police headquarters in Wan Chai.

The document, dated last year, bore the heading "secret" and the name of Acting Superintendent Adrian Tang Chi-ming. A police source said officers suspected an insider who wanted to frame Tang, who is due for promotion.

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The culprit could have printed out the documents and cut and pasted Tang's name to frame him, the source said.

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