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Undercover staff to patrol estates.
(From South China Morning Post)
Byline: Patsy Moy
Undercover security staff will operate in public housing estates across Hong Kong in a further attempt to crack down on tenants who litter and breach hygiene regulations.
The move, part of a major effort to clean up the city, follows news of a plan to pay "informants" who tip off the authorities about unhygienic neighbours. That initiative has raised the ire of civil liberties campaigners.
A senior housing official said officers would be extensively deployed to catch errant public housing tenants. Human right activists have warned that procedures will have to be mapped out carefully to ensure the officials do not abuse their power.
The Permanent Secretary for Housing, Planning and Lands, Leung Chin-man, said the housing department had hired seven security staff two weeks ago.
They will work undercover with the housing officers to catch tenants who commit hygiene offences such as littering, spitting and causing damage to the environment of public housing estates.
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