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Hong Kong police job vacancies rise for 4th consecutive year

//Vacancies in the Hong Kong Police Force have risen for the fourth straight year, recent government figures showed.

... the Secretary for Security said in a written response that there have been 5,706 openings during the 2021-2022 financial year so far ā€“ an 8 per cent increase from the previous year when there were 5,258 vacancies.

The number of vacancies in 2018-2019 and 2019-20 were 1,440 and 2,235, respectively.

The figures ā€“ up until December 31 last year ā€“ show that most vacancies were for rank and file, or junior police officer, positions. The 2021-2022 recruitment target for junior police officers was 1,350. Just 423 have joined the force.

Months-long protests and unrest in the summer of 2019, initially against a controversial extradition bill, caused the cityā€™s trust in the police force to plummet...//

Source: Hong Kong Free Press #Jan21

#Police #Recruitment
Xinjiang Police Files: Inside a Chinese internment camp

The highly coercive and potentially lethal systems of control used against minority groups in Chinaā€™s internment camps have been revealed in a giant cache of secret documents shared with the BBC.

China insists the network of secure facilities built across its far western region of Xinjiang are simply ā€œschoolsā€ for combatting extremism to which ā€œstudentsā€ sign up willingly. But the contents of the leaked Xinjiang Police Files suggest a different story.

Taking information from the leaked documents, the BBC has reconstructed one of the camps ā€“ the Shufu County New Vocational Skills Education and Training Centre - to reveal the methods used inside.

Source: BBC #May24

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-8df450b3-5d6d-4ed8-bdcc-bd99137eadc3?fbclid=IwAR0G6lCZ5J8OgJCy9O-taSz-8zjWZQRAh7eQVeTQw-2LzIWf3KECKZLVG0A&fs=e&s=cl


#Xinjiang #Police #Champ
China opens unofficial police stations in Britain to hunt down people for their return

China has opened unofficial police stations in London as part of a growing network of Communist Party-linked offices accused of hunting down and blackmailing Chinese citizens to force them to return home.

Chinese authorities have established 54 ā€œoverseas police service centresā€ around the world in the last few years, according to a new report, as Beijing seeks to expand Chinese powers abroad.

Source: The Telegraph #Sep14

#China #Overseas #Police

https://t.co/wW45Kkkeo6
Why are Chinese police operating in Canada, while our own government and security services apparently look the other way?

In China, the high-profile TV drama In The Name Of The People has become a smash hit. In that show, Chinese agents enter the U.S. posing as businessmen so they can repatriate a factory manager who had fled abroad with huge ill-gotten wealth.

But a new study by the European non-governmental agency Safeguard Defenders suggests that there might be some truth to the fiction. According to the NGO, the Fuzhou Public Security Bureau has established more than 50 ā€œoverseas police service centresā€ in cities around the world ā€“ including three publicly documented ones in Toronto, home to Canadaā€™s largest Chinese diaspora.

Source: The Globe and Mail #Sep26

#Chinese #Police #Canada #Toronto

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-why-are-chinese-police-operating-in-canada-while-our-own-government/
China hits back at FBI claim of unauthorized ā€˜police stationsā€™ in US

China has contested claims it was operating unauthorized ā€œpolice stationsā€ on US soil, calling the sites volunteer-run, after the FBI director said he was ā€œvery concernedā€ about unauthorized stations that have been linked to Beijingā€™s influence operations.

Safeguard Defenders, a Europe-based human rights organization, published a report in September revealing the presence of dozens of Chinese police ā€œservice stationsā€ in large cities around the world, including New York.

Sourceļ¼šThe Guardian #Nov18

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwji49X7u7r7AhWQKEQIHbtZDzYQFnoECA4QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Famp.theguardian.com%2Fworld%2F2022%2Fnov%2F18%2Fchina-police-stations-us-fbi-wray&usg=AOvVaw2AnrK9r5rT12Pf9IlmWjxn

#FBI #Police #China #NewYork