ACCIDENTS AND CRIME

Marine East Police officers interviewed by SAI KUNG BUZZ report satisfaction that accidents at sea are down and new interception tactics are trapping illegal fishing trawlers. On the other hand they are concerned about the […]

A change of command has occurred at Sai Kung Police Station. Chief Inspector Paul Gordon has moved to Kowloon East as head of operations and Chief Inspector Bryan Yeung Yuk-leung (left) has replaced him as police chief […]

Three tree cutters were arrested at 3am in a bush hideaway near Po Lo Che recently, Sai Kung Divisional Commander Paul Gordon reported. Rural Patrol Unit officers seized about 50kg of agarwood, Paul said. Two […]

Perps — as the Americans would put it — have plastered the O Tau area with notices demanding money. O Tau is the village of 12 houses in the valley on the left as you […]

The most serious incident handled by the Sai Kung Police Station last year was a domestic dispute that escalated, Divisional Commander Paul Gordon said, revealing the district is relatively peaceful. Burglaries were the most pervasive […]

Sai Kung’s fire station, looking after the biggest area in Hong Kong, handled 242 mountain rescues, 191 fires and 4,552 ambulance call-outs last year, Station Commander Alfred Tang Wai Kwong, said. The most dramatic and difficult incident during the year, the Assistant […]

Smuggling in Sai Kung waters is rarely nasty — weapons, drugs, humans– a marine police source said. It’s mostly commercial, ie high-value products such as hard-drives, medical instruments and agarwood. Even cars. A light aircraft pilot recalls […]