Hong Kong Correctional Services

Agency overview
Formed	1879; 142 years ago (1879)
Jurisdiction	Hong Kong
Headquarters	23rd, 24th and 27th Floors, Wanchai Tower, 12 Harbour Road, Wan Chai
Employees	7,052 (2018)[1]
Minister responsible	John Lee, Secretary for Security
Agency executives	WOO Ying Ming, Commissioner WONG Kwok Hing, Deputy Commissioner
Website	www.csd.gov.hk

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Hong Kong Correctional Services (also called Correctional Services Department (CSD)) is responsible for the management of prisoners and prisons in Hong Kong. The Commissioner of Correctional Services reports to the Secretary for Security.

Although the Chief Magistrate (now Commissioner of Police) was given control over prisons in 1841, the legislation to create the department did not come into being until 1853. CSD was part of the Hong Kong Police Force until 1879 when the role of Superintendent of Victoria Gaol was created. The department has been financially independent from the Hong Kong Police Force since December 1920, when the Superintendent of Victoria Gaol was re-titled as the Superintendent of Prisons.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

Ranks

As with all of the Hong Kong Disciplined Services, British-pattern rank insignia continue to be utilised, with the only change being the replacement of the St. Edward's Crown by the Bauhinia flower crest in 1997.^[7]

• Commissioner of Correctional Services (similar insignia to a UK General)
• Deputy Commissioner (similar insignia to a UK Lieutenant-General)
• Assistant Commissioner (similar insignia to a UK Major-General)
• Chief Superintendent (similar insignia to a UK Colonel)
• General Manager. (Correctional Services Industries)
• Senior Superintendent (similar insignia to a UK Lieutenant-Colonel)
• Superintendent (similar insignia to a UK Major)
• Chief Officer (similar insignia to a UK Captain)
• Principal Officer (similar insignia to a UK Lieutenant with a bar beneath)
• Officer (similar insignia to a UK Lieutenant)
• Probationary Officer (similar insignia to a UK Second Lieutenant)
• Technical Instructor
• Assistant Officer I (similar insignia to a UK Sergeant)
• Assistant Officer II (similar to a UK Private)
• Instructor

Facilities

CSD has 28 facilities across Hong Kong ranging from maximum security prisons to rehabilitation centres.

Prisoner demographics

As of 2018^[update] there was a daily average of 8,310 prisoners in the Hong Kong prison system. The prisons had an occupancy rate of 81.6 per cent, while training, detention, rehabilitation, and drug addiction treatment centres had an occupancy rate of 30.8 per cent.^[1]

Reading materials

As of 2018^[update] there were about 100,000 books in the prison libraries; the percentages by language were 83% Chinese, 10% English, and 7% not in Chinese nor English. Prison authorities stated that they did not wish to buy very many books in neither official language to ensure the security of the prisons; Legco member Shiu Ka-chun criticised this rationale.^[8]

Crest

Badge of the Correctional Service Department before 1 July 1997.

The current crest of the force was adopted in 1997 to replace most of the colonial symbols:^[9]

• St Edward's Crown replaced by the stylised Bauhinia flower crest
• Replacement of the Royal cypher by a Compass rose, with the words "Correctional Services " circling it
• Addition of a laurel wreath bearing the words "Correctional Services Hong Kong"

Staff associations

• Hong Kong Correctional Services General Union
• Correctional Services Officers' Association
• Hong Kong Correctional Services Department Assistant Officers General Association
• Hong Kong Chinese Civil Servants' Association Correctional Services Department Branch
• The Association for the Retired Staff of the Hong Kong Correctional Services Department

CSD in popular media

• TVB drama series Tomorrow Is Another Day was filmed with the full co-operation of the CSD who allowed the film crew to film and access to Stanley and other prisons.
• 2017 Independent Movie With Prisoners [zh] () was filmed as a story about prisoners being tortured inhumanly in Sha Tsui Correctional Institution. A claim that the film was based on real events was later retracted.

References

Flag of the Correctional Service Department before 1 July 1997.

External links

Media related to Hong Kong Correctional Services Department at Wikimedia Commons

• Correctional Services Department
• Hong Kong Correctional Services at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
• Index of articles at the South China Morning Post