Role reversal as Occupy protester turns himself in to police
Cliff Cheung Chi-fai, who went to police headquarters regularly during almost 30 years in disciplined services, will assume different role during Friday's visit.
Cliff Cheung Chi-fai used to visit police headquarters regularly during almost 30 years in the disciplined services.
On Friday he will go to the same building in a completely different role - to turn himself in for allegedly taking part in an unauthorised assembly.
Cheung, who retired this year, is among some 10 devoted Occupy Central volunteers from across generations who plan to surrender en masse for participating in the months-long pro-democracy sit-in. They hope their display of unity will prompt more people to join the democracy movement in the future.
"The environment [of police headquarters] might not be too foreign to me and basically I know what the procedure will be like," said Cheung, an Occupy marshal at the Admiralty protest site.
"I just hope my friends [in the force] will perform their duties."
The 55-year-old retiree, who refused to disclose which branch of the disciplined services he worked for, expressed regret that Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying and Police Commissioner Andy Tsang Wai-hung had placed frontline police officers in confrontation with pro-democracy protesters.
