Secretary for Security Tang Ping-keung inspected the Castle Peak Bay Immigration Centre (CIC) and Immigration Service Institute of Training & Development (ISITD) today to learn more about their facilities and operation.

After Mr Tang was briefed on the CIC’s operation and management, he inspected its various facilities such as dayrooms, dormitories, special units, exercise yard and sick bay.

He also met and exchanged views with the centre's personnel to know more about their work, as well as the challenges they face.

The CIC is one of the Immigration Department’s detention facilities and has a maximum capacity of 500 detainees.

The detainees at the CIC include illegal immigrants, overstayers or people refused permission to land in Hong Kong who are pending removal. Among them, some are non-refoulement claimants.

Mr Tang then visited the ISITD to learn about its organisation, training programmes and facilities. He also inspected classes on national education, immigration control and passenger clearance.

He said that national education is conducive to trainees' understanding of national development and helps engender a sense of national identity, which nurtures them into law enforcement officers with a sense of belonging to the country, an affection for Hong Kong and an international perspective.