Laptop reported stolen at emergency services training school
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Police have launched a criminal investigation after a paramedic’s laptop computer was stolen from a locker at a training school for emergency services.
Officers got a report from the 34-year-old paramedic at the Fire and Ambulance Services Academy on Pak Shing Kok Road, Tseung Kwan O, shortly before 9.15am yesterday.
The victim was understood to be a senior ambulanceman, surnamed Yeung, who attended an in-service training course in the school.
Initial investigation showed he had locked his Apple MacBook, worth about HK$9,000, in his locker on the ground floor male changing room of the school at about 8am on Monday before he attended the course, a police source said.
“The laptop computer was found missing when he opened his locker at about 5pm on the same day,” the source said.
He said officers found no prising mark on the locker or the padlock. it is understood no other properties were stolen from the locker.
A police spokesman said the case has been classified as “theft” and crime-squad officers from the Kwun Tong police district were investigating. So far, no one has been arrested.