Civil Service Newsletter Issue 113

Explanation of WCAG 2.0 Level Double-A Conformance

Recognition for outstanding achievements in civil service

Civil Service Bureau

The Chief Executive, Mr John Lee Ka-chiu, (first row, ninth right); the Secretary for the Civil Service, Mrs Ingrid Yeung Ho Poi-yan (first row, eighth right); the Chairman of the Public Service Commission, Mrs Rita Lau Ng Wai-lan (first row, seventh left); the Permanent Secretary for the Civil Service, Mr Clement Leung Cheuk-man (first row, sixth left); and the Head of the Civil Service College, Mr Oscar Kwok Yam-shu (first row, sixth right) were pictured with award recipients and guests.

THE Secretary for the Civil Service (SCS), Mrs Ingrid Yeung Ho Poi-yan, commended 100 civil servants for their outstanding work performance at the SCS’s Commendation Award Presentation Ceremony on 8 November 2022. The Chief Executive, Mr John Lee Ka-chiu, also attended the ceremony to extend his congratulations to the award recipients.

The 100 awardees this year, from 37 bureaux and departments, span various grades, including professional and technical grades, disciplined services, general grades and Model Scale 1 grades.

Addressing the ceremony, Mrs Yeung said that the public has rising demands and expectations on the civil service. The civil service has to cope with a host of tough and unprecedented tasks, and is under considerable pressure in the process. However, civil servants continued to approach their work with commitment and courage in the face of difficulties, and give strong support to the Government in rising to the various challenges.

Mrs Yeung also said that, in order to enable the civil service to maintain high standards of performance, the Civil Service College would make ongoing efforts to enhance training for civil servants. In particular, the College would accord the highest priority to enhancing civil servants' understanding of the constitutional order of the HKSAR and the country's development, reinforcing the patriotic spirit and the citizen-oriented service ethos of civil servants.

Introduced in 2004, the SCS’s Commendation Award Scheme (the Scheme) aims to commend colleagues who have achieved outstanding performance continuously for at least five years. The Scheme has a meticulous selection process. All nominations from Permanent Secretaries or Heads of Departments/Grades are vetted by an award committee, with the final decision on the awardees’ list being made by SCS.

At the ceremony, Mrs Ingrid Yeung Ho Poi-yan, the Secretary for the Civil Service commended civil servants for their outstanding performance.

Six of the outstanding civil servants commended are as follows:

Miss Chan Ching-man, Acting Chief Immigration Assistant of the Immigration Department

During Miss Chan Ching-man’s tenure as an instructor at the Immigration Service Institute of Training and Development, She strived to set a good example for new recruits and cultivate the trainees' spirit of teamwork in serving the public. She also worked on the frontline at various land, sea and air boundary control points, and performed her job well in exercising effective immigration control.

Ms Tam Pik-ling, Senior Superintendent of the Hong Kong Police Force

Ms Tam Pik-ling, who is currently responsible for the planning, execution and co-ordination of operational matters of the Police in the Hong Kong Island Region, has participated in various large-scale operations. From 2017 to 2018, she assisted in the implementation of the co-location arrangements at the West Kowloon Station of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link and conducted a series of preparatory work in 14 months to ensure its smooth commissioning.

Mr Lee Chun-kit, Health Inspector I of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department

Mr Lee Chun-kit works at Tsang Tsui Columbarium and is responsible for managing the facilities and overseeing its daily operation. Mr Lee attaches great importance to the feedback received from the public on columbarium facilities. He would consider such feedback from the public's perspective and adopt constructive suggestions for service improvement, which won him praise from grave sweepers.

Ms Leung Yvetta Ruth, Principal I of the Education Bureau

Ms Leung Yvetta Ruth has served in seven Government schools. Starting as a teacher and now serving as a principal, she cherished every opportunity to have face-to-face contact with students and play the role as their companion in the hope of inspiring their growth. She is also committed to cultivating an echelon of young teachers to continue the passion she has for teaching.

Dr Grace Tam Wan-bec, Clinical Psychologist of the Social Welfare Department

Dr Grace Tam Wan-bec is serving at the Central Psychological Support Service (Pre-school Service), she displayed her professionalism during the COVID-19 epidemic by providing consultation and support services to pre-school children with special education needs and their parents by videoconferencing. She also pursued her doctoral degree during her spare time to enhance her professional knowledge and better serve the community.

Ms Cathleen Chan Fung-chi, Acting Senior Engineer of the Civil Engineering and Development Department

Ms Cathleen Chan Fung-chi has been entrusted early this year to take part in the time-critical construction of community isolation and treatment facilities in the Lok Ma Chau Loop to help the Government's fight against the fifth wave of the COVID-19 epidemic. While such infrastructural works normally take years to complete, Ms Chan and the works team finished the works in less than two months, which was a significant contribution to anti-epidemic efforts.

List of award recipients of SCS's Commendation Award 2022

*In alphabetical order of the bureau/department and award recipients' names in English.