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A 20-member Immigration Department delegation yesterday (November 30) began an eight-day study programme on the Mainland.
It is the eighth Mainland Study Programme at Beijing Gong An University and is co-ordinated by the Immigration Service Institute of Training and Development and the Beijing Office.
The delegation is headed by Acting Assistant Principal Immigration Officer (Prosecution and Litigation), Mr Law Chun-nam, and comprises four Senior Immigration Officers, eight Immigration Officers, three Chief Immigration Assistants and four Senior Immigration Assistants.
The officers will attend lectures on various subjects, including the general situation of immigration work, the management of Mainland residents travelling to and from Hong Kong and Macau, frontier inspection duties, the police system and organisational structure of the Gong An, Chinese culture and criminal psychology. The delegation will also visit Chongqing in Sichuan Province.
Director of Immigration, Mr Simon Peh Yun-lu, met the officers before they left for the Mainland. He said the study programme would provide a good opportunity for the officers to enhance their understanding of the operations of the Mainland Immigration Authority and help establish a firmer and closer working connection with Mainland counterparts.
The delegation will return to Hong Kong on December 7.
Ends/Monday, December 1, 2008
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