{"id":55239,"date":"2023-05-18T09:20:05","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T00:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/18\/once-admired-now-reviled-hong-kong-police-force-failing-to-attract-new-recruits"},"modified":"2023-05-18T09:20:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T00:20:05","slug":"once-admired-now-reviled-hong-kong-police-force-failing-to-attract-new-recruits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55239","title":{"rendered":"Once admired, now reviled, Hong Kong police force failing to attract new recruits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long-serving officers have left and generous incentives are not enough to fill vacancies in what is today seen as a brutish arm of the Chinese state<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Wan*, in his 40s, resigned from the Hong Kong police force after a career of over two decades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI no longer felt proud being part of the force. They lost their sense of mission to serve the community and uphold justice,\u201d he said. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to turn into someone I despise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/18\/once-admired-now-reviled-hong-kong-police-force-failing-to-attract-new-recruits\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-serving officers have left and generous incentives are not enough to fill vacancies in what is today seen as a brutish arm of the Chinese stateKevin Wan*, in his 40s, resigned from the Hong Kong police force after a career of over two decades.\u201cI n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55240,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55239\/revisions\/55240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}