Experts quit police probe in blow to Hong Kong government
Foreign experts recruited to add legitimacy to Hong Kong’s police watchdog quit Wednesday, saying the agency lacks teeth.
Critics of the police watchdog had previously argued that the agency lacks independence and powers to credibly investigate policing of the protests. Policing of the protests has led to a breakdown in public trust in the once highly respected 30,000-strong force. An independent investigation of police conduct is among the movement’s key demands, resisted by Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam. Lam travels to Beijing this weekend for regularly scheduled meetings with Communist Party leaders.Pro-democracy legislator Tanya Chan described the experts’ decision to step aside from their advisory role for the Independent Police Complaints Council as a no-confidence vote in the watchdog agency’s forthcoming report on the protests and policing.
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