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SCS visits Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (with photos)
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     The Secretary for the Civil Service, Mrs Ingrid Yeung, visited the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) this afternoon (May 29) to learn more about the department's work on rodent prevention and control, hawker control, water seepage investigation, prosecution, licensing and public education. She also toured the Water Seepage Resource Centre and the Restaurant Licensing Resource Centre, both located at the Pei Ho Street Municipal Services Building in Sham Shui Po, where she also had an exchange of views with staff representatives from various grades in the department. 

     Accompanied by the Permanent Secretary for the Civil Service, Mr Clement Leung, Mrs Yeung first met with the Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene, Ms Irene Young, and the directorate staff to receive an update on the department's latest developments in various areas of work and the challenges they are confronting.

     As environmental hygiene is one of the main issues of district governance, Mrs Yeung encouraged the FEHD colleagues to strive to improve environmental hygiene and street management with a people-oriented spirit, and to utilise innovative technologies to enhance work efficiency in serving the public better. 

     Anti-rodent work is one of the key tasks of the FEHD. The FEHD staff demonstrated to Mrs Yeung how the alcohol rodent trapping device introduced last year can trap rodents effectively and also introduced the use of thermal imaging cameras with artificial intelligence technology to track rodent activities. With higher sensitivity and precision of this technology, the FEHD will take targeted anti-rodent actions based on the survey results, and deploy more effective anti-rodent actions in black spots.

     She then visited the Water Seepage Resource Centre and the Restaurant Licensing Resource Centre, which are open to the public, to learn more about the two centres that provide to the public with information on water seepage, food business and other trade licensing matters. Mrs Yeung subsequently visited the Prosecution Section and the Licensing Section of Kowloon and was introduced by the staff on the use of information and technology to streamline the workflow in handling prosecution case information and to reduce the manual process of calculating the area of food premises, with a view to enhancing work efficiency.

     Mrs Yeung visited the Hawker Control Team in the district and was briefed by a team member on the enforcement situation in regulating hawking activities and combating illegal extension of business area by shops, as well as how the body-worn video camera equipped to the Hawker Control Team can record the on-site situation when necessary in the course of discharging their duties more effectively and safeguarding the safety of the public and staff.
 
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The Secretary for the Civil Service, Mrs Ingrid Yeung, visited the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department today (May 29) to learn more about the department's work. Photo shows Mrs Yeung (second right) visiting the Sham Shui Po Hawker Control Team and was briefed by a team member on the enforcement situation in regulating hawking activities and combating illegal extension of business area by shops, as well as how the body-worn video camera equipped to the Hawker Control Team can record the on-site situation when necessary in the course of discharging their duties more effectively and safeguarding the safety of the public and staff. Looking on are the the Permanent Secretary for the Civil Service, Mr Clement Leung (first right), and the Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene, Ms Irene Young (centre).
The Secretary for the Civil Service, Mrs Ingrid Yeung, visited the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department today (May 29) to learn more about the department's work. Photo shows Mrs Yeung (second left) visiting the Licensing Section of Kowloon and being introduced by a staff on the use of information and technology to streamline the workflow to reduce the manual process of calculating the area of food premises, with a view to enhancing work efficiency. Looking on is the Permanent Secretary for the Civil Service, Mr Clement Leung (first left).
The Secretary for the Civil Service, Mrs Ingrid Yeung, visited the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department today (May 29) to learn more about the department's work. Photo shows Mrs Yeung (front row, third right) visiting the Restaurant Licensing Resource Centre, which is open to the public, to learn more about the centre that provides to the public with information on food business and other trade licensing matters. Looking on are the the Permanent Secretary for the Civil Service, Mr Clement Leung (front row, second right), and the Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene, Ms Irene Young (back row, second left).
The Secretary for the Civil Service, Mrs Ingrid Yeung, visited the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department today (May 29) to learn more about the department's work. Photo shows Mrs Yeung (front row, fifth left); the Permanent Secretary for the Civil Service, Mr Clement Leung (front row, fourth left); the Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene, Ms Irene Young (front row, fourth right), and directorate staff as well as staff representatives from various grades in the department.
The Secretary for the Civil Service, Mrs Ingrid Yeung, visited the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) today (May 29) to learn more about the department's work. Photo shows a staff member introducing to Mrs Yeung (second right) the rodent prevention and control tools used by the FEHD, including a T-shaped bait box and an alcohol rodent trapping device. Looking on are the Permanent Secretary for the Civil Service, Mr Clement Leung (third right), and the Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene, Ms Irene Young (first right).