ACCIDENTS AND CRIME

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 […]