Hong Kong anti-graft agency marks 50 years with event offering slice of crime fighting life
- Popular media portrayal of the Independent Commission Against Corruption’s work draws visitors to open house
The event attracted visitors drawn by the popular portrayal of the work of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) in film and television.
Vincent Yi, a city resident from mainland China’s Guangdong province, said he learned about the open day from the Instagram-like social media platform Xiaohongshu.
“I’ve seen the ICAC in films a lot, which piqued my interest,” said the 25-year-old, who works in consulting. “The pistols they use felt quite heavy and being able to pick them up made me feel like I was in the films. It was also special to see the older generations of pistols I’ve seen on screen before.”
Daniel Chui Yu-ming, a regional officer of the ICAC’s community relations department, said the agency expected about 6,000 attendees.
“Our four days of open days held this weekend and the next will welcome about 6,000 applicants,” he said, adding that visitors were chosen at random from 19,000 applications for tickets, the highest number on record for the agency’s event.
Visitors could stop by the commission’s video interview room and identification parade facilities, which displayed firearms, historical photographs and television series on the work of the ICAC.
