Over the meetup with Tom and Yuan Yuan, fellow bloggers and photographers from London last week, we walked by some policemen being on duty. Cameras were pointed to the policemen at once. I held up my GX200, they the GRD II and my friend a LX3. Click, click, click.
We nodded a knowing smile to each other when powering off the cameras. As we all know, the British government has proposed a ban on photographing police being on duty. We quoted Cristi for his recent post about this and joked that tourists being able to photograph police without offending the law could be an attraction for Britons.
Police is a dream job for all boys at some point of time in their childhood. The traffic police on their vrooming motor bikes won my especial admi- ration because of a Japanese TV programme about some superheros I saw at a very young age. Fact is, I still like those superheros but only for reason of nostagia. When I incidentially bumped into a video of an opening probably filmed in Thailand, I was attracted to it like a cat to its fish.
(Oops, you are bugged!)
I know some people working in the Hong Kong Police Force: a macho guy once worked in the Special Duties Unit formed in 1973 and later enhanced by Britain’s Special Air Service, and another in the marine police. You may not know that civilian staff in the Police Force can also assume very high ranking posts. Take for example, a senior psychologist may assume the post title of Chief Superintendent.
(This photo was taken at the flower market I took the Londoners to during the meetup. After this shot we even saw a Thailand crew filming a pretty Thai star)
The most unbelievable rumour I heard about the Police Force was that in a report room, someone dressed as a diver, walked by a trouble-making villain filing a complaint against a crime operation and bashed him on his head with some soft diving equipment. The villain, of course, lodged another complaint about the diver. What came next was that his complaints were nullified altogether on suspicion of his hallucination.
Well, that is only a rumor, believe it or not.
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