Remembering the dead: Hong Kong memorial for deceased civil servants to be rebuilt
Government is silent on police proposal for a memorial in the heart of the city; association pledges to continue pressing plan
Government officials will rebuild the existing memorial plaque for civil servants who die while on duty, but failed to answer police calls for a statue to be erected in the heart of the city.
During a meeting between the Junior Police Officers’ Association and Civil Service Bureau officials yesterday, the bureau revealed plans to refurbish the plaque at Gallant Garden at Wo Hop Shek, but stressed that it was not a compromise offer to the police union’s call for a monument to be built at the government headquarters, the South China Morning Post has learned.
“The bureau plans to tear down the current plaque and build a new one,” an insider told the Post.
“It would be an in-wall plaque with the names of all deceased civil servants on it. There will also be road construction, and an open plaza will be built.”
The source said the bureau came up with the idea simply because the plaque was old and needed to be repaired.
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Junior police association president Joe Chan Cho-kwong welcomed the proposal, but said that he would not give up the campaign to have a monument erected at the government headquarters.