Policing Hong Kong an Irish History

Policing Hong Kong an Irish History

Author: Patricia O'Sullivan

Publisher:

Published: 2017-05-31

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9789887792734

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Hong Kong, 1918. Tranquil compared to war-torn Europe. But on January 22nd, a running battle through the streets of Wanchai ended with five policemen dead. One of the men came from a small town in Ireland. He, along with a dozen relatives, had sailed out to join the Police Force. Patricia O'Sullivan describes these policemen and the criminals they dealt with, and gives a rare glimpse into the life of working-class Europeans in Hong Kong.


Policing in Hong Kong

Policing in Hong Kong

Author: Kam C. Wong

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2015-03-06

Total Pages: 538

ISBN-13: 1439896445

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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


Regime Type and Beyond

Regime Type and Beyond

Author: Weitseng Chen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-04-30

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 1316517411

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Analyses the politics of policing in a range of regime types across East and Southeast Asia.


Policing in Hong Kong

Policing in Hong Kong

Author: Professor Kam C Wong

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2012-08-01

Total Pages: 647

ISBN-13: 1409456390

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This book is one of the first to document the challenges and opportunities facing the Hong Kong police force following the reversion of political authority from the UK to China in 1997. Thematically organized and oriented towards those issues of greatest concern to the public, such as police accountability, assaults on police, police deployment, surveillance powers, and policing across borders, it provides a detailed discussion of these and other contemporary issues. The opening chapter sets the work within historical context while the final chapter provides a comparison of policing in Hong Kong with public security in the PRC. The book will be of value to students and researchers working in the area of comparative policing, and comparative criminal justice, as well as police professionals, and policy-makers.


A Pattern of Life—Essays on Rural Hong Kong by James Hayes

A Pattern of Life—Essays on Rural Hong Kong by James Hayes

Author: Hugh D.R. Baker

Publisher: City University of HK Press

Published: 2021-02-13

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 9629375532

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“For myself, however, it is the human element, the recollected words, the remembered faces, which give life to the printed record.” James Hayes’s many writings have made a major contribution to knowledge about life in rural Hong Kong. This book presents sixteen of his illuminating and original articles, each of which is rooted in his experiences as a district officer, administering and visiting villages under his care. His interest in the life and lives of the people went far beyond the formal demands of his official work, and Dr Hayes grew to admire and respect the villagers. As a result, his writings are suffused with his affection and esteem. Intended for scholars in the field of New Territories history as well as general readers interested in rural life in the region, A Pattern of Life provides a fascinating, academically important, yet highly readable picture of traditional life in rural South China and reinforces Dr Hayes’s reputation as one of the most important writers on the New Territories. “[James was] the archetypical example of those remarkable Colonial Service officers who became fascinated by, and deeply engaged with, the territories and people which it was their task to administer.” – Lord Wilson of Tillyorn Governor of Hong Kong (1987–1992)


Hong Kong History

Hong Kong History

Author: Man-Kong Wong

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-11-10

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9811628068

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This book aims at providing an accessible introduction to and summary of the major themes of Hong Kong history that has been studied in the past decades. Each chapter also suggests a number of key historical figures and works that are essential for the understanding of a particular theme. However, the book is by no means merely a general survey of the recent studies of Hong Kong history; it tries to suggest that the best way to approach Hong Kong history is to put it firmly in its international context.


Policing Hong Kong, 1842-1969

Policing Hong Kong, 1842-1969

Author: Lawrence K. K. HO

Publisher: City University of HK Press

Published: 2012-07-01

Total Pages: 41

ISBN-13: 9629372061

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This volume explores Hong Kong policing history from 1842 to 1969 through the frontline stories of many police officers.


It Won't Be Long Now

It Won't Be Long Now

Author: Graham Heywood

Publisher:

Published: 2016-06-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789881376510

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Japan marched into Hong Kong on December 8, 1941. On the same day, Graham Heywood was captured near the border while carrying out duties for the Royal Observatory. He was transported to a military Prisoner-of-War camp in Kowloon. Heywood's illustrated diary records his three-and-a-half years of internment, telling a story of hardship but also of hope. As he awaits liberation, his reflections upon freedom and imprisonment bring realisations about life and how to live it.


Women in the Hong Kong Police Force

Women in the Hong Kong Police Force

Author: Annie Hau-Nung Chan

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-11-29

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1349952818

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This book examines the development of women in the Hong Kong Police Force (HKP) over the past 68 years, beginning from the early colonial years when calls to include women in law enforcement first emerged, to the recruitment of the first female sub-inspector in 1949, and through to the current situation where policewomen constitute 15% of the total HKP establishment. What accounts for these developments and what do they tell us about organisational culture, gender and colonial policing? This interdisciplinary work is relevant to fields including women’s studies, gender studies, policing studies, criminology, colonial history, sociology, and organisational studies, and will appeal to academics, students and lay readers interested in the development of women in policing.


The End of Policing

The End of Policing

Author: Alex S. Vitale

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2017-10-10

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1784782904

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The massive uprising following the police killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020--by some estimates the largest protests in US history--thrust the argument to defund the police to the forefront of international politics. It also made The End of Policing a bestseller and Alex Vitale, its author, a leading figure in the urgent public discussion over police and racial justice. As the writer Rachel Kushner put it in an article called "Things I Can't Live Without", this book explains that "unfortunately, no increased diversity on police forces, nor body cameras, nor better training, has made any seeming difference" in reducing police killings and abuse. "We need to restructure our society and put resources into communities themselves, an argument Alex Vitale makes very persuasively." The problem, Vitale demonstrates, is policing itself-the dramatic expansion of the police role over the last forty years. Drawing on first-hand research from across the globe, The End of Policing describes how the implementation of alternatives to policing, like drug legalization, regulation, and harm reduction instead of the policing of drugs, has led to reductions in crime, spending, and injustice. This edition includes a new introduction that takes stock of the renewed movement to challenge police impunity and shows how we move forward, evaluating protest, policy, and the political situation.