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Government's Budget Plan Releases Misleading statistics on Efficiency of Emergency Hotline by the Police
Police received over 24,000 calls from victims and witnesses of the Yuen Long Triad attack at the night of 21 July 2019. Officers took 49 minutes to arrive at the scene but eventually turned away from the assailants without defending the civilians.
The newly released 2020 Budget Plan, however, claimed the response rate for emergency calls (999) from the New Territories reached 97.9%. News outlets like Ming Pao and Stand News as well as lawmaker Chu Hoi-dick all suspected that the calls made by help-seeking civilians on 21 July 2019 were excluded from the report.
Consider that the total number of emergency hotline usage was around 84,000 last year, it was estimated that only 71.5% reached the service standard if those 24,000 calls were counted.
Police did not reply the enquiries on the attainment rate calculation and detailed data.
Source: MingPao; Stand News
Government's Budget Plan Releases Misleading statistics on Efficiency of Emergency Hotline by the Police
Police received over 24,000 calls from victims and witnesses of the Yuen Long Triad attack at the night of 21 July 2019. Officers took 49 minutes to arrive at the scene but eventually turned away from the assailants without defending the civilians.
The newly released 2020 Budget Plan, however, claimed the response rate for emergency calls (999) from the New Territories reached 97.9%. News outlets like Ming Pao and Stand News as well as lawmaker Chu Hoi-dick all suspected that the calls made by help-seeking civilians on 21 July 2019 were excluded from the report.
Consider that the total number of emergency hotline usage was around 84,000 last year, it was estimated that only 71.5% reached the service standard if those 24,000 calls were counted.
Police did not reply the enquiries on the attainment rate calculation and detailed data.
Source: MingPao; Stand News
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HK$25.8 billion Funding for Police Force Passed in Legislative Council with Pro-Beijing Camp's Endorsement
The government's budget plan was passed in the Legislative Council on May 14. The bill had been criticized by the pro-democracy lawmakers as the relief funds for residents and businesses were bundled with the police funding, which has increased by 24.7 per cent compared to last year.
The bill was opposed by 23 pro-democracy lawmakers but was in the end passed with 42 votes from the pro-Beijing camp. Pro-democracy lawmaker Chan Pui-yin of the medical profession abstained from voting.
All 52 amendments proposed by the pro-democracy fraction were voted down. One of the main concerns was the police funding of HK$25.8 billion for expansion, weapons and supplies, making Hong Kong a city with the world's highest citizen-officer ratios.
In 2019-20, the police overtime pay and other allowances cost HK2.5 billion, exceeding 10 times the original estimate.
Source: RTHK; HKFP #May14
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HK$25.8 billion Funding for Police Force Passed in Legislative Council with Pro-Beijing Camp's Endorsement
The government's budget plan was passed in the Legislative Council on May 14. The bill had been criticized by the pro-democracy lawmakers as the relief funds for residents and businesses were bundled with the police funding, which has increased by 24.7 per cent compared to last year.
The bill was opposed by 23 pro-democracy lawmakers but was in the end passed with 42 votes from the pro-Beijing camp. Pro-democracy lawmaker Chan Pui-yin of the medical profession abstained from voting.
All 52 amendments proposed by the pro-democracy fraction were voted down. One of the main concerns was the police funding of HK$25.8 billion for expansion, weapons and supplies, making Hong Kong a city with the world's highest citizen-officer ratios.
In 2019-20, the police overtime pay and other allowances cost HK2.5 billion, exceeding 10 times the original estimate.
Source: RTHK; HKFP #May14
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