The Housing Department is using five additional special  teams and 10 extra mobile digital closed-circuit television system sets to crack down on people throwing objects from heights.

The department today held a seminar and kick-off ceremony for about 400 estate management advisory committees members to disseminate and reinforce the message that people should not throw objects or allow them to fall from a height. 

It has sent five more special operation teams to help  estate management staff to follow up and investigate fallen-object incidents. It also spent $2 million to install 10 extra closed-circuit television system sets, bringing the total to 116 sets, to enhance surveillance.

Estate staff will step up on-site patrols and inspections to remind tenants to remove dangling objects outside balconies or near windows, to prevent them from falling.

The department has also put up posters in estates and broadcasts messages to tenants through the Housing Channel and radio stations.