{"id":28216,"date":"2015-01-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/en\/categories\/law_order\/html\/2015\/01\/20150127_194129.shtml"},"modified":"2015-01-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T04:00:00","slug":"police-political-neutrality-assured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2015\/01\/27\/police-political-neutrality-assured\/","title":{"rendered":"Police political neutrality assured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/home\/Categories_generic_icons\/Law_and_Order\/om2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Commissioner of Police Andy Tsang said that Police perform their duties in accordance with the law and have no political consideration.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During a press conference to review the overall crime situation in 2014, Mr Tsang gave this reply in response to an inquiry on Police officers' arrests of Occupy movement protesters.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also noted that a great number of officers were sent to deal with the movement, affecting their normal policing work.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The crime situations in the occupied areas worsened, he said, noting an increase of burglary cases in those areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr Tsang expressed his concern over the sense of \u201clawlessness\u201d that emerged in society during the 79-day Occupy movement, which may adversely affect the city\u2019s law and order in future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/home\/Categories_generic_icons\/Law_and_Order\/om2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Commissioner of Police Andy Tsang said that Police perform their duties in accordance with the law and have no political consideration.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During a press conference to review the overall crime situation in 2014, Mr Tsang gave this reply in response to an inquiry on Police officers' arrests of Occupy movement protesters.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He also noted that a great number of officers were sent to deal with the movement, affecting their normal policing work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The crime situations in the occupied areas worsened, he said, noting an increase of burglary cases in those areas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Tsang expressed his concern over the sense of &ldquo;lawlessness&rdquo; that emerged in society during the 79-day Occupy movement, which may adversely affect the city&rsquo;s law and order in future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chinese-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28217,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28216\/revisions\/28217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}