Report task force prepares to meet

May 15, 2020

The Security Bureau today said it is making preparations to convene a task force to study the Independent Police Complaints Council (IPCC) report as soon as practicable.

  

The IPCC today published the Thematic Study Report on the Public Order Events arising from the Fugitive Offenders Bill since June 2019 and the Police Actions in Response.

 

The Chief Executive has requested the Secretary for Security to establish and personally supervise a task force to study the report and follow up on its recommendations, as well as to communicate with relevant departments and organisations.

 

The bureau said it will convene a task force meeting as soon as practicable with a view to developing a work plan and identifying the priority items in respect of the 52 recommendations put forward by the IPCC.

 

Task force members shall include representatives from Police and other departments and organisations relevant to the review items.

 

The bureau noted that the report has proposed a series of improvement measures which should be helpful to Police to better handle future public order events and further enhance their law enforcement efforts.

 

The task force will carefully study and effectively follow up on the IPCC's 52 recommendations, report regularly to the Chief Executive, and consider making public the progress made when appropriate to enhance transparency, it added.

 

Meanwhile, Police will seriously examine the IPCC’s report and participate in and fully collaborate with the task force to study in detail and follow up on the 52 recommendations proposed in the report.

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