Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak announced yesterday that the police recorded 3,309 cases involving suspected regulatory breaches by taxi drivers during the first half of this year, a year-on-year increase of 42.2 percent – a whopping increase of 982 cases.
According to Wong, 62.2 percent (2,058 cases) of the 3,309 cases concerned overcharging, while 22.9 percent were about cabbies refusing to pick up passengers.
Wong said that the remaining 494 cases concerned other violations. He did not elaborate.
Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak (centre), flanked by his chief-of-cabinet Cheong Ioc Ieng (second from right), Unitary Police Service (SPU) Commissioner-General Ma Io Kun (second from left), Public Security Police (PSP) Commissioner Leong Man Cheong (first from left) and Judiciary Police (PJ) Director Sit Chong Meng, addresses yesterday’s press conference about the city’s first-six-month crime statistics, at the S. Francisco Barracks. Photo: GCS
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