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Apr 8, 2020, 8 tweets

#Tread some interesting data @hkpoliceforce submitted to the Legislative Council for scrutiny of Budget 2020/21

1) Actual recruits in 2019/20 plunged by some 40% than previous years and missed the original target with some 1,000 head counts short.

2) Police officers are rather well paid for their jobs. The blue dot in the left lower corner is the median wage for the whole labour force in HK by the end of 2019.

3) Police use of weapons during #AntiELAB protests

4) More than 210K stop and search - or twice every minute - were conducted from last June to this Feb

5) Numbers of officers arrested, suspended for criminal offences, and probed by other law enforces such as immigration dept or ICAC, in the past three years

6) Hundreds of officers left the force from last June to Feb, which was nearly 40 per cent more than the same period in the previous year.

7) Police spent nearly 200K on changing its motto to 忠誠勇毅 as the new police chief took office

8) Though this was not often seen during the protests...

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