A Hong Kong police officer was sentenced to two years in prison on Wednesday for unlawfully terminating 10 criminal investigations by forging statements of complainants agreeing to withdraw their cases.
According to a probation officer’s report, 34-year-old Detective Constable Wong Yiu-chung had failed to manage stress at work, driving him to forge statements and dishonestly obtain his supervisors’ approval between November 2022 and July 2023 to close cases.
The court heard that Wong was…
Source: Hong Kong police officer jailed over forging statements to close 10 cases
