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Summer Acts
Summer Job Attachment under
Police Mentorship Programme
The Police Mentorship Programme (PMP) was first launched
in March 2004 as a proactive recruitment strategy to inspire
high calibre undergraduates from local universities to join the
Force as probationary inspectors (PIs) immediately after their
graduation. In the past 9 years, over 180 CU students have
been admitted to PMP and some of them eventually joined the
Force.
In summer 2007, “Job Attachment” was added as a new
initiative under PMP. The primary objective is to provide a
platform for the PMP mentees to obtain work experience in
their field of studies and appreciate the work of police through
participation in projects. The Job Attachment is broadly divided
into three categories, namely Research and Survey, Organizing
Activities, and Designing Webpages and Databases. Very
positive feedbacks are heard from participating mentees and
students in the new batch are look forward to this valuable
opportunity in the coming summer.
Have you ever imagined that
you can work in the Police
Headquarters when you are
not a police officer yet? The
Police Mentorship Programme
(PMP) job attachment just
brought me such fantastic
working
experience
last
summer holiday.
I worked in the Operations
Wing (
Бਗ
) for eight
weeks to conduct a research
regarding the Hong Kong
social movement development
in the recent ten years. As
we often talk about the “post-80s” activists and waves of
demonstration nowadays, we seldom drill deeper to study
the modes of transition and the rationales behind the scene.
This job attachment surely widened my horizon by providing
me with such a precious opportunity to analyze such social
phenomenon through observation of demonstration,
literature review and interviews with scholar and activist.
On the other hand, I provided another perspective, rather
than the current police interpretation, for the police to study
the local situation. Practical suggestions were made with
reference to the foreign practices as well. So, this job
is particularly meaningful since the research report was
appreciated and the police would consider it when planning
for future policing strategy.
From the daily conversation with the police officers, I could
feel their professionalism and passion towards the police
work. More than giving me advices on my research paper,
they were eager to share their working experience such
as how they prepared for the police recruitment process,
their ups-and-downs and some impressive cases they
have settled in the past. All these have deepened my
understanding towards the police work indeed.
Chan Wing Kwan, Julia
Government and Public Administration, Year 3
PMP Mentee 2011/12
"A fruitful working experience
with the police"