{"id":113232,"date":"2017-02-24T08:47:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T00:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.symedialab.org.hk\/talk\/?p=113232"},"modified":"2017-02-24T08:47:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T00:47:00","slug":"polices-vows-serve-pride-turn-sour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/polices-vows-serve-pride-turn-sour\/","title":{"rendered":"Police&#8217;s vows to serve with pride turn sour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Chris Yeung<\/p>\n<p>Every time the Hong Kong Police holds a major press conference with something important to say, their spokespersons speak against a backdrop featuring their motto: Serve with Pride and Care.<\/p>\n<p>Confronted with rising expectation in a profoundly-changing society, the police force has vowed to maintain law and order while upholding civil rights and striving for excellence in professionalism.<\/p>\n<p>Those high-sounding promises, however, contrast oddly with the realities unfolded in the recent years, in particular the past week. That could not be more ironic.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday night, more than 33,000 people, almost the same size of the entire fleet of the police force, attended a rally to support the seven police officers who were sentenced to two years in jail for assaulting activist Ken Tsang Kin-chiu. Among them are off-duty officers, their families and supporters.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"lcQ81GaEbQ\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2017\/02\/24\/polices-vows-to-serve-with-pride-turn-sour\/\">Police&#8217;s vows to serve with pride turn sour<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cPolice\u2019s vows to serve with pride turn sour\u201d \u2014 Voice of Hong Kong\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2017\/02\/24\/polices-vows-to-serve-with-pride-turn-sour\/embed\/#?secret=lcQ81GaEbQ\" data-secret=\"lcQ81GaEbQ\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time the Hong Kong Police holds a major press conference with something important to say, their spokespersons speak against a backdrop featuring their motto: Serve with Pride and Care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1631,"featured_media":40347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17613,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chris-yeung","category-column"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/0131.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paaypJ-tsk","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}