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Public Order

Beat Drugs Fund

With a capital base of $3.35 billion, the fund supports anti-drug community efforts by financing worthwhile projects and research, helping treatment and rehabilitation centres to meet statutory licensing requirements and supporting schools in implementing the Healthy School Programme with a Drug Testing Component and the 'Participate in Sports, Stay Away from Drugs' programme. In the 2019 regular funding exercise, the fund approved about $135.7 million to support 54 projects and programmes.

Under the fund, a total of $6.84 million has been granted to the 18 District Fight Crime Committees for the ongoing third round of the Anti-drug Community Awareness Building three-year programme to sustain anti-drug efforts and raise awareness of hidden abuse at the local community level.

Anti-money Laundering and Counter-terrorist Financing

The Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau coordinates overall policies in anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing. The Narcotics Division of the Security Bureau facilitates the risk-based supervision of the DNFBP regulatory bodies to ensure practitioners' compliance with the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Ordinance. The Cross-boundary Movement of Physical Currency and Bearer Negotiable Instruments Ordinance requires declarations or disclosures to be made for the cross-boundary transportation of currency or bearer negotiable instruments with a value of more than $120,000.

Government Laboratory

The Government Laboratory's Forensic Science Division provides a comprehensive forensic service to the criminal justice system. The division is composed of two operational groups.

The Drugs, Toxicology and Documents Group serves in three areas:

• Abused drugs;

• Analysis of blood and urine in drink-driving and drug-driving cases, urinalysis and hair drug testing to support abused-drug monitoring programmes, and toxicological examination in suspicious deaths and criminal offences; and

• Examination of handwriting and documents, and technical support in testing the production quality of the new generation of Hong Kong smart identity cards and

e-passports.

The Criminalistics and Quality Management Group undertakes forensic tests on trace evidence, marks and impressions, and human DNA. It provides a round-the-clock crime scene examination and consultation service. Officers are trained to ascertain causes of fires, reconstruct traffic accidents and interpret bloodstain patterns. Since July, the group has been engaged heavily in the forensic investigations of cases arising from social unrest.

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