The injured police officer was struck by a rock thrown from above as he wrote out a parking ticket in Tuen Mun. The officer was working on a road safety campaign in […]
ROCK DROPPED ON TRAFFIC OFFICER’S HEAD
THREE-DAY PARKING SWOOP IN SHA TIN
Police will show no mercy on illegal parking in Sha Tin for the next three days, with an operation to smooth traffic flow and raise safety awareness of road users. Police say […]
TURBO CHARGED PARKING ENFORCEMENT WITH E-TICKETS
Traffic wardens will no longer have to scribble elaborate diagrams of illegally parked car situations or scrawl lengthy details onto parking ticket forms, with the pilot “e-Ticketing” scheme planned to launch across […]
POLICE SIDESTEP SMART LAMPPOST WOES WITH PRIVATE PROJECT
The attack on dozens of smart lampposts by chainsaw-wielding protestors in Kwun Tong last year killed off many of Hong Kong’s “smart city” ambitions, but a parallel police project to investigate the […]
HyD PERSISTENTLY SHUNS GREEN RULES
Highway builders who buried protected trees under tonnes of rubble – in breach of their permit to build – ignored hundreds of demands from environmental auditors to mend their ways, with auditors […]
TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT LAPSES INTO LENIENCY, CARNAGE
Motorists enjoyed one of the most lenient traffic regimes for 15 years in 2019, as police shifted resources into battling protests and riots and away from traffic enforcement. New figures from the […]
POLICE FURTHER DELAY DAMNING TRAFFIC STATS
Police are yet again delaying official 2019 crime figures, until mid-April, statistics that will reveal a drastic cut in traffic enforcement for the second half of the year. Parking tickets were down […]
ROCK THROWN FROM BRIDGE PUTS TAXI PASSENGER IN HOSPITAL
A rock thrown from a bridge onto southbound Fanling Highway caused a potentially deadly smash in the early hours of February 29, according to police, with a taxi passenger taken to hospital […]
E-SCOOTER SHORT CIRCUIT KILLS YOUNG LAD
A short circuit in an electric scooter may have started a deadly apartment fire which killed an 7-year-old boy on Friday night, according to police. Firefighters battled the fire at Oriole House, […]
2,000 PARKING TICKETS ON DAY 1 OF 3-DAY CLAMPDOWN
Police say they’ve given out 1,922 parking tickets and towed six cars on the first day of a three-day illegal parking clampdown in the New Territories. The New Territories South Region is […]
