Hong Kong MTR employee given community service for getting subordinates to clock in for him
Court hears his cover was blown after travel log on Octopus card did not match his attendance record
An MTR commander was slapped with 160 hours of community service on Tuesday for asking his subordinates to clock in at work for him 152 times in 15 months, on days when he could not wake up on time or was late because he was having breakfast.
The Kwun Tong Court heard that Wong Sing-kan’s cover was blown after the travel log on his Octopus card was found to not match his attendance record between January 2014 and March last year.
Comparisons between those records showed that on 81 occasions, the By-laws Inspection Unit commander had clocked in at his Sheung Shui office on the Station Operation Management System even before he had entered the MTR station closest to his home in Mei Foo.
For instance, on February 22, 2014, the retired policeman’s attendance record showed that he had arrived in the office at 9.22am, but the card’s transaction log recorded that he entered Mei Foo station only at 1.01pm.
At other times, he claimed to have travelled at an impossible speed from Mei Foo station to Sheung Shui station – a journey that typically requires more than 50 minutes.
On January 6, 2014, Wong reached Mei Foo station at 9.16am and clocked in with the computer system in Sheung Shui just five minutes later at 9.21am.