ICAC command course helps develop officers’ leadership skills to embrace challenges
2016-11-25
Thirty-one ICAC officers and law enforcers from other local, Mainland and overseas agencies today (November) completed a month-long command course which helped develop their leadership and management skills to confront challenges.
Speaking at the closing ceremony of the ICAC Chief Investigators’ Command Course No.36, ICAC Commissioner Mr Simon Peh Yun-lu said the training course provided participants with invaluable opportunities to share experience and networking through close interactions with counterparts from around the world.
“As seasoned law enforcement officers, you are aware of the challenges we face daily in our mission to combat crimes and make our communities safer and better,” he said.
To succeed in that task, Mr Peh said the participants needed to embrace changes, constantly ensuring that they adopted the best practices and gave the people they served the best that they could provide.
“Courses such as this are therefore designed to broaden your horizons, challenge your assumptions and help you devise a roadmap to become more effective leaders and managers,” he said.
This year’s course featured presentations by prominent speakers from legal, public service, business and academic fields, and case studies of major investigations conducted by senior ICAC officers.
Speakers included Mr Daniel Fitzpatrick, Director of National Performance Programs, Learning & Development, Royal Canadian Mounted Police; Mr Justice Joseph Paul Fok, Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal; Mr Jasper Tsang Yok-sing, former President of the Legislative Council; Mr Lam Woon-kwong, Convenor of the Non-Official Members of the Executive Council; Miss Maria Tam Wai-chu, Chairman of the Operations Review Committee; and Mr Pang Yiu-kai, Chairman of the Council of The Education University of Hong Kong.
Since the 1970s, a total of over 760 participants had benefited from the ICAC command course, including 31 participants joining this year’s course.
Apart from 12 ICAC officers, three participants were from the Macao Commission Against Corruption, the People’s Procuratorate of Guangdong Province and the People’s Procuratorate of Liaoning Province respectively.
Ten other participants were from overseas agencies, including the Australian Federal Police; Royal Canadian Mounted Police; Corruption Eradication Commission of Indonesia; Serious Fraud Office of New Zealand; Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau of Singapore, Singapore Police Force; Serious Fraud Office of the United Kingdom; Department of Investigation of New York City, Internal Revenue Service of Department of Treasury, and Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States.
Locally, the Correctional Services Department, Customs and Excise Department, Fire Services Department, Hong Kong Police Force, Immigration Department and the Securities and Futures Commission also sent their officers to participate in the course.
The course also featured a one-week study tour to various authorities in Dalian.
Speaking at the closing ceremony of the ICAC Chief Investigators’ Command Course No.36, ICAC Commissioner Mr Simon Peh Yun-lu said the training course provided participants with invaluable opportunities to share experience and networking through close interactions with counterparts from around the world.
“As seasoned law enforcement officers, you are aware of the challenges we face daily in our mission to combat crimes and make our communities safer and better,” he said.
To succeed in that task, Mr Peh said the participants needed to embrace changes, constantly ensuring that they adopted the best practices and gave the people they served the best that they could provide.
“Courses such as this are therefore designed to broaden your horizons, challenge your assumptions and help you devise a roadmap to become more effective leaders and managers,” he said.
This year’s course featured presentations by prominent speakers from legal, public service, business and academic fields, and case studies of major investigations conducted by senior ICAC officers.
Speakers included Mr Daniel Fitzpatrick, Director of National Performance Programs, Learning & Development, Royal Canadian Mounted Police; Mr Justice Joseph Paul Fok, Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal; Mr Jasper Tsang Yok-sing, former President of the Legislative Council; Mr Lam Woon-kwong, Convenor of the Non-Official Members of the Executive Council; Miss Maria Tam Wai-chu, Chairman of the Operations Review Committee; and Mr Pang Yiu-kai, Chairman of the Council of The Education University of Hong Kong.
Since the 1970s, a total of over 760 participants had benefited from the ICAC command course, including 31 participants joining this year’s course.
Apart from 12 ICAC officers, three participants were from the Macao Commission Against Corruption, the People’s Procuratorate of Guangdong Province and the People’s Procuratorate of Liaoning Province respectively.
Ten other participants were from overseas agencies, including the Australian Federal Police; Royal Canadian Mounted Police; Corruption Eradication Commission of Indonesia; Serious Fraud Office of New Zealand; Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau of Singapore, Singapore Police Force; Serious Fraud Office of the United Kingdom; Department of Investigation of New York City, Internal Revenue Service of Department of Treasury, and Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States.
Locally, the Correctional Services Department, Customs and Excise Department, Fire Services Department, Hong Kong Police Force, Immigration Department and the Securities and Futures Commission also sent their officers to participate in the course.
The course also featured a one-week study tour to various authorities in Dalian.