A senior police superintendent has received a prison sentence of five months and three weeks after being found guilty of indecently assaulting a female subordinate on three occasions in 2024, including at a work party. Senior Superintendent of Police Ian Chow received his sentence at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts on Friday. His legal team…
A 65-year-old hiker has been struck by lightning on Lantau Peak, police have confirmed to HKFP. Lantau Peak. File Photo: Tom Grundy/HKFP. The man was among a group ascending Lantau’s highest peak as part of the Hong Kong Hiking Meetup group. Police said he is in a conscious state. The incident occurred at around noon….
Hong Kong police have arrested 11 people in the latest crackdown on “crash-for-cash” scams. The schemes, which have generated HK$135 million in suspected fraudulent claims, involve scammers seeking exaggerated sums in damages following traffic accidents. Road traffic in Hong Kong. File photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. Police said on Wednesday that the number of suspicious traffic accident…
Several times a day, a drone carrying high-capacity cameras and flashing red-and-blue lights whirs and rises from the rooftops of police stations across Hong Kong. They emerge from a box-shaped docking system that slowly unfolds its doors to both sides. Some hover over the city’s billion-dollar villas with private pools and tennis courts; others whizz…
Hong Kong police have dismantled an alleged drug manufacturing laboratory inside a public housing flat in Tsuen Wan, seizing HK$2.5 million worth of etomidate – also known as space oil – and arresting three women. Hong Kong police arrest three women on May 19, 2026, on suspicion of manufacturing and trafficking dangerous drug etomidate in…
Hong Kong police have arrested nine men in a joint operation with law enforcement agencies in six other jurisdictions, targeting the production, use and distribution of child pornography online. Hong Kong Police Force. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. The city’s police force said on Monday that Operation Hurdler arrested a total of 326 people in March and…
Hong Kong police are searching for a man believed to have snatched mobile phones from two MTR commuters moments before the train doors closed. Lai King MTR station. Photo: Wikicommons. Police said they received a report at 8.24pm on Thursday from a woman, surnamed Tung, who said her phone was stolen at Lai King MTR…
A Hong Kong man arrested on suspicion of threatening to bomb Admiralty MTR station has been released on bail. Eastern Law Courts Building. Photo: Almond Li/HKFP. The 31-year-old man, surnamed Chung, appeared at Eastern Magistrates’ Courts on Monday after his arrest on Friday, local media reported. He was charged with allegedly spreading false information about…
A 53-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly assaulting an elderly wheelchair-bound bus passenger who refused to fasten his seatbelt and delayed the man’s commute, according to police. Upper deck seats equipped with seat belts on a Kowloon Motor Bus vehicle. Photo: Kowloon Motor Bus. The altercation happened on Tuesday morning in Wong Tai Sin….
Police fired live rounds to subdue a knife-wielding man at Tuen Mun Town Plaza on Thursday, police have told HKFP. The suspect later died in hospital. Police fired live rounds to subdue a knife-wielding man at Tuen Mun Town Plaza on Thursday, January 15, 2025. Photo: 剛好五個字 screenshot. The incident occurred at around 7:13pm, police…