1st Edition

Policing in Hong Kong History and Reform

By Kam C. Wong Copyright 2015
544 Pages
by Routledge

544 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

544 Pages
by Routledge

The HKP (Hong Kong Police), ‘Asia’s Finest’, is a battle-tested professional organization with strong leadership, competent staff, and deep culture. It is also a continuously learning and reforming agency in pursuit of organisational excellence. Policing in Hong Kong: History and Reform is the first and only book on the development of the Hong Kong Police from an inside out and bottom up... Read more

COLONIAL POLICING WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS. Study of Policing in Hong Kong. Debating Colonial Policing. Assessing Colonial Policing. Policing with Hong Kong Characteristics. POLICE REFORM IN 1950S. Police Reform Literature. Policing in Colonial Hong Kong. Formation of Hong Kong Police in the 1840s. HKP Reform in the 1950s: Context and Framework. HKP Reform: The 1950s.

Biography

Professor Kam C. Wong teaches at the Department of Criminal Justice, Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, where he once was a chairperson. Concurrently, he is a faculty fellow at the School of Criminal Justice, SUNY–Albany, New York. An Inspector of Police with the Hong Kong Police, Dr. Wong was awarded the Commissioner’s High Commendation. Currently, he is an Honorary Fellow at the Center for Criminology at Hong Kong University. Professor Wong is a legal consultant to the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada on Chinese law issues; an expert consultant to U.K. Beirut Police Integrity Workshop, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; an expert observer at the United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders; and an expert consultant to HKP and Ministry of Public Security, People’s Republic of China.