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A 28-year-old woman who assaulted two officers of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) causing bodily harm in execution of their duties was today (January 21) sentenced to six weeks' immediate imprisonment. The case was heard in the Eastern Magistrates' Courts.
During an FEHD operation against unlicensed hawkers in Chun Yeung Street, North Point on October 14, 2010, the woman was arrested for causing obstruction in public place and hawking without a licence. The woman refused to cooperate and assaulted two FEHD officers.
Apart from the six weeks' imprisonment, the woman was ordered by the court to pay the two injured FEHD officers a total of $4,000 as compensation, and fined $800 for causing obstruction in public place and hawking without a licence.
"It is not right to use force against public officers, which carries legal consequences," an FEHD spokesman said.
"People should co-operate with law enforcement officers in their exercise of duty," he said.
Ends/Friday, January 21, 2011
Issued at HKT 20:57
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