Senior Inspector Lam Yuen-yee (inset) Photo: HK Standard
The body of Senior Inspector Lam Yuen-yee has been recovered near Yi O, Lantau, after she was missing for two days following the ramming of her small marine police boat by a smugglers’ vessel. The 37-year-old police woman was in command of the police boat chasing smugglers with three colleagues. After the ramming the police boat overturned and the officers were trapped beneath it. Three of Senior Inspector Lam’s colleagues freed themselves but she was missing for days as the marine police firefighters and GFS helicopters searched for her.
Lam had joined the marine police as a constable and climbed the ranks because of her abilities and studies. She had busted many smuggling operations including wild animal abuse cases.
Officers stand at attention as the body of senior inspector Lam Yuen-yee is placed inside a yellow government vehicle on Monday. Photo: K. Y. Cheng/SCMP
Smugglers’ speedboats are often powerful. This writer, flying Cessnas, has seen them below him in Mirs Bay. They have big outboard engines and are often used for smuggling stolen cars to the mainland.
Chief Executive Carrie Lam and senior police officers have expressed their grief at the loss of Senior Inspector Lam and have promised full support for her family. Police officers being killed on duty are rare in Hong Kong. Mainland police have vowed to help our officers catch the culprits who killed a fine young woman.
Senior Inspector Lam is likely to be buried or interred at Gallant Garden. This is the cemetery established in 1996 at Wo Hop Shek to honour civil servants who lost their lives on duty. It has 110 land burial spaces, 165 urn spaces and a columbarium with 120 niches. A big Buddhist-Taoist monastery is nearby. Most people people buried or interred there are police officers or firefighters. The latest internment was three years ago. A senior police constable attending an accident site was struck by a passing truck.
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