Officers with Hong Kong Police Force’s special units demonstrate an anti-terrorism operation during an open day on National Security Education Day in Hong Kong, April 15, 2021. (PHOTO/HKSAR GOVERNMENT)
HONG KONG – Hong Kong recorded 14,779 crimes in the first quarter of this year, down about 10 percent from the same period last year, said the city’s Commissioner of Police Chris Tang Ping-keung on Tuesday.
Police have arrested more than 100 people on suspicion of violating the National Security Law in Hong Kong and more than half of them have been prosecuted, siad police chief Chris Tang
Tang said at a District Council meeting that a total of 10,250 people have been arrested in cases related to social unrest in Hong Kong so far. Among them, about 2,500 have been prosecuted and 295 sentenced to imprisonment.
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Tang said that with the implementation of the Law of the People's Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the HKSAR, police's resolute enforcement actions and judgments made by the court, peace has been generally restored in the Hong Kong society.
Police have so far arrested more than 100 people on suspicion of violating the National Security Law in Hong Kong and more than half of them have been prosecuted, Tang said.
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