There has been a huge growth in the number of illegal and legal hawkers in the last 25 years.
Some streets are littered with telcoms 'legally' hawking their services on public land while others have the old and the frail sitting illegally at the kerbside selling a few worthless trinkets.
Today in SSP there were dozens of hawking patrol staff in a co-ordinated taskforce to clean-up the streets of the poor and elderly selling tat. From a quick observation most of the front line hawker staff aappeared compsnate and alllowed these people time to cover their wares.
What can be done to reduce the menace of hawking in HK??