Hong Kong police can handle Occupy Central, says Justice Secretary

Hong Kong police alone can handle any incident that could potentially damage the city's law and order, Secretary for Justice Rimsky Yuen Kwok-keung said yesterday.

Hong Kong police alone can handle any incident that could potentially damage the city's law and order, said Secretary for Justice Rimsky Yuen Kwok-keung. Photo: AP

Hong Kong police alone can handle any incident that could potentially damage the city's law and order, Secretary for Justice Rimsky Yuen Kwok-keung said yesterday.

Yuen's remarks came one day after the former director of Xinhua's Hong Kong branch, Zhou Nan, said "anti-China forces" were using the Occupy Central movement to try to seize control of Hong Kong's administration and that the PLA would step in if riots were to occur in the city.

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