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 From Hong Kong's Information Services Department
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February 24, 2004
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Crime
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124 arrested in west Kowloon
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Hong Kong Police

Police have arrested 124 people in a joint anti-crime operation with the Immigration and Labour Departments.

 

At about 5am today Police, Immigration and Labour officers raided numerous locations in west Kowloon, and so far 90 men and 34 women have been arrested.

 

Among them, 80 men and 30 women were arrested for breaching their conditions of stay, while one man was found to be an illegal immigrant. The operation is proceeding.