Hong Kong Regulations

POLICE (DISCIPLINE) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 29

Payment for loss or damage to property

(1) Where an appropriate tribunal has found an inspector or junior 
police officer guilty of an offence under regulation 3(2), the tribunal may,
in addition to or in lieu of any punishment he is by these regulations
empowered to award, order the defaulter to pay in full or in part-

   (a)  the cost of repairing or replacing any article of clothing, equipment
        or property whatsoever entrusted or supplied to the defaulter in his
        capacity as a police officer which has been lost or damaged;

   (b)  the cost of repairing or replacing any Government property lost or
        damaged by him; or

   (c)  the compensation paid, ex gratia or otherwise, by the Government to
        any person in respect of the loss or damage of that person's property
        by the defaulter, in each case only if the loss or damage has resulted
        from the defaulter's neglect or fault and the amount ordered to be
        paid does not exceed his salary for one month.

(2) A gazetted officer may require an inspector or junior police  officer to
pay to the Government in full or in part-

   (a)  the cost of repairing or replacing any article of clothing, equipment
        or property whatsoever entrusted to the inspector or junior 
        police officer in his capacity as police officer and lost or damaged
        by him;

   (b)  the cost of repairing or replacing any Government property lost or
        damaged by him; or

   (c)  the compensation paid, ex gratia or otherwise, by the Government to
        any person in respect of the loss or damage of that person's property
        by the inspector or junior police officer, in each case only if the
        loss or damage has resulted from the junior  police officer's or
        inspector's neglect or fault and the amount ordered to be paid does
        not exceed his salary for one month.

(3) For the purpose of enabling due inquiry to be made as to whether any
police officer should be required to pay any amount under paragraph (2),
affording him due opportunity to make representations and enabling any
requirement under that paragraph to be appealed against and reviewed, Parts II
and III shall apply mutatis mutandis to and in respect of such a requirement
as they apply to and in respect of a finding of guilty of an offence under
regulation 3(2) and an award of punishment.