{"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=\"iz2mriNSxX\"><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 class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vohk.hk\/2017\/02\/24\/polices-vows-to-serve-with-pride-turn-sour\/embed\/#?secret=iz2mriNSxX\" data-secret=\"iz2mriNSxX\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Police&#8217;s vows to serve with pride turn sour&#8221; &#8212; Voice of Hong Kong\" 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":[],"categories":[17613,8],"tags":[],"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":[{"id":112867,"url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/time-heal-not-inflict-new-wounds\/","url_meta":{"origin":113232,"position":0},"title":"Time to heal, not inflict new wounds","author":"Chris Yeung","date":"February 20, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Given a chance, few people, if any, would have hoped to have Occupy Central happened. 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Woo\u2019s surprise bid for the top post has given a fillip to three widely-tipped aspirants from the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Chris Yeung&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Chris Yeung","link":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/category\/column\/chris-yeung\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/cy1031.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":106760,"url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/patten-back-future\/","url_meta":{"origin":113232,"position":4},"title":"Patten back to the future","author":"Chris Yeung","date":"December 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 By Chris Yeung Believe it or not. Last governor Lord Patten, known for his eloquence in speaking and intelligence in thinking, admitted he was tongue-tight as he addressed students at the University of Hong Kong on Tuesday. 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