Hong Kong police launch counter-insurgency operation – to root out burglars on The Peak
Uniformed and plain-clothes officers from the force’s Emergency Unit and Police Tactical Unit are deployed in the high-class area after 11 reported burglaries this year
Helicopter surveillance, camouflaged officers lying in wait and a campaign to win hearts and minds.
Hong Kong police have launched something akin to a counter-insurgency campaign for a jungle war in a bid to ensure residents of The Peak – the city’s most expensive residential district – feel safe in their beds in the wake of a spate of robberies.
The force will deploy a Government Flying Service helicopter to carry out eye-in-the-sky anti-crime sorties, position camouflaged officers in the undergrowth after dark and appeal to residents to take the security of their homes to heart, it emerged yesterday.
Details of the anti-crime crackdown were revealed by Peak Police Station senior inspector Vevina Chan Shuk-ping, who said it was in response to a spate of 11 burglaries on The Peak so far this year, four more than in the whole of 2015.
The mini crime spree, in which the total cash value lost amounted to what police sources told the South China Morning Post was “not that much”, forms just 7 per cent of the total number of burglaries on the whole of Hong Kong Island – 157 – so far this year.
