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Public Order
The department uses a Digital Trunked Radio System to ensure effective and efficient radio communication at scenes of incidents.
Fire Safety
The Fire Safety Command and the Licensing and Certification Command formulate fire safety policies and promote fire protection.
The Fire Safety Command draws up fire safety policies and formulates fire safety measures for buildings and mass transit systems. It also devotes much of its efforts to upgrading fire safety in old buildings, vetting loan applications for fire safety improvement works and raising public awareness of fire safety.
The command's two Building Improvement Divisions enforce the requirements for upgrading the fire safety measures of commercial premises and other buildings which fall within the purview of the Fire Safety (Commercial Premises) Ordinance and the Fire Safety (Buildings) Ordinance, and investigate reports of fire hazards in buildings.
A Building Fire Safety Envoy Scheme trains owners or occupiers of buildings and staff of property management companies as envoys to promote fire safety in buildings. At the end of 2015, 6,028 envoys had been trained.
The New Projects Division, in collaboration with the Buildings Department and other departments, vets new and amended building plans, including those for the mass transit system, tunnels, bridges and the airport. It also defines the fire protection needs of certain premises. In 2015, the division vetted 15,004 building plans.
The Railway Development Strategy Division scrutinises the railway infrastructure's fire safety requirements. It carries out acceptance inspections of fire service installations (FSI) at new railway projects, such as the South Island Line, and of alteration, addition and improvement works for the existing lines.
The Support Division formulates, reviews and updates departmental policies on improving fire safety in buildings and strengthening public understanding of the need for fire safety. The division collaborated with Radio Television Hong Kong in producing new episodes for the radio programme Happy Daily and television series Elite Brigade III in 2015 to promote public awareness of fire protection and enhance public knowledge of fire and ambulance services.
By the end of 2015, 149,096 people had been trained as Fire Safety Ambassadors (FSA) and 378 community leaders had been appointed as FSA Honorary Presidents.
The department adopts a four-pronged approach of publicity, enforcement, checking and partnership to tackle fire hazards in old buildings proactively and comprehensively. Since 2008, it has applied this approach to 208 target buildings, of which 24 were covered in 2015.
The Licensing and Certification Command formulates and enforces fire safety policies and regulations. The command supports the government's 'Be the Smart Regulator' Programme to
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