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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggsy:
    Soon you're going to be arguing your parking tickets in mandarin.
    All Hail to the motherland! including gweilos
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    Quote Originally Posted by David4Maths:
    Can't see the link with police recruitment in that analysis.
    They're

    recruiting

    Mainlanders

    Into

    the

    police
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    Speculation. But it does seem like the next "logical" step towards assimilation - some sort of special circumstances visa or green card which allows free movement between the Mainland GBA and HK.

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    In short, they are willing take anyone now.
    they are paying pretty decent


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    have you even read the article?

    here the facts:
    HKPF have had a hard time recruiting recently, so they start accept applications from PR that have not been living in HK for at least seven years.
    enter the fear mongers:
    "all part of a devilish plan to replace hkpf by mainland law enforcement"
    BUT:
    (1) they are talking about kids born to Chinese PR, who are automatically PR
    (2) you have to be fluent in Cantonese to apply for any job with the police

    Look, I know there are a lot of bad things happening in HK, but it is not helpfull to become hysterical. If you always expect the worst, you won't be able to understand what is actually happening.


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    Sorry for adding my 5 cents... will go back and crawl into a corner.
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    Does Hong Kong need the number of police that it has? I still think Hong Kong is one of the safest cities I have lived - especially when considering street crime or other violent crime. A sceptic would say that large numbers of police are needed to control the local population - you don't need to go back many years to see the extremely large protest marches with zero violence.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HK_Katherine:
    THat might as well say "Mainlanders to become police in HK". What a worrying trend.
    We had a preview in 2019.
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    There seems to be a need to have plenty of police to crush any type of opposition to government. In the 2019 protests the actual number of violent protesters was small but large numbers of police were used to clamp down. It's the same with the pandemic, more and more restrictions enforced by more police.

    Autocratic governments rely on the stick to ensure their continuation.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Barbaravonbreit:
    here the facts:
    HKPF have had a hard time recruiting recently, so they start accept applications from PR that have not been living in HK for at least seven years.
    enter the fear mongers:
    "all part of a devilish plan to replace hkpf by mainland law enforcement"
    BUT:
    (1) they are talking about kids born to Chinese PR, who are automatically PR
    (2) you have to be fluent in Cantonese to apply for any job with the police

    Look, I know there are a lot of bad things happening in HK, but it is not helpfull to become hysterical. If you always expect the worst, you won't be able to understand what is actually happening.
    Does living in a society with the rule of law and an executive led rather than controlled government not count?

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