Abstract
The Hong Kong Police Force has undergone one of its biggest challenges in the Occupy Movement that emerged in the last year. Despite the sheer complexity of the police roles, we know little about its representations in the media coverage, and even less about the extent to which the imagery impacts of police acting as peacekeepers would have been made upon the images of police acting as crime fighters. Against this background, this empirical research aims to investigate the police image and its relation to the police’s specifically categorized duties in Hong Kong. The content analysis of local newspaper accounts is used as the research method. It is found that there would be generally negative media representations of police in the order-maintenance work whereas the police images in the crime-fighting duties could still remain positive. The reasons for these findings and their implications for the conceptions of the police role are discussed.
Highlights
According to the Basic Law, which is Hong Kong’s miniconstitution negotiated between China and Britain for the governance of Hong Kong after the handover in 1997, universal suffrage for electing Hong Kong’s governor, namely the chief executive, would be introduced in 2017
The power of nominating candidates is to be given to an Election Committee, which mainly comprises a small number of social elites
Some major oppositional figures announced that if this demand was not met, they would call for an “Occupy Central” struggle, in which the “Central” is generally referring to the core business district, and the “Occupy Central” suggests that the opposition would attempt to bring Hong Kong’s financial and commercial activities to a standstill if a more democratic universal suffrage in terms of the civil nomination could not be introduced
Summary
According to the Basic Law, which is Hong Kong’s miniconstitution negotiated between China and Britain for the governance of Hong Kong after the handover in 1997, universal suffrage for electing Hong Kong’s governor, namely the chief executive, would be introduced in 2017. The opposition demanded to bypass the Election Committee and called for a civil nomination of candidates for the chief executive. Some major oppositional figures announced that if this demand was not met, they would call for an “Occupy Central” struggle, in which the “Central” is generally referring to the core business district, and the “Occupy Central” suggests that the opposition would attempt to bring Hong Kong’s financial and commercial activities to a standstill if a more democratic universal suffrage in terms of the civil nomination could not be introduced. The Central Government of China took the elective arrangements for the chief executive to be a sovereignty issue and refused to the civic nomination
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