Hong Kong police officer jailed for forging statements to close 10 cases

A Hong Kong police officer was sentenced to two years in prison on Wednesday for unlawfully terminating 10 criminal investigations by forging statements of complainants agreeing to withdraw their cases. According to a probation officer’s report, Detective Constable Wong Yiu-chung, 34, had failed to manage stress at work, which drove him to forge statements and dishonestly obtain his supervisors’ approval to close cases between November 2022 and July 2023. The District Court heard that Wong was...