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The Chief Executive, Mr C Y Leung, commended and congratulated the winning departments and teams for their service excellence when officiating at the prize presentation ceremony of the Civil Service Outstanding Service Award Scheme 2015 this afternoon (September 4).
The Secretary for the Civil Service, Mr Clement Cheung, and about 600 guests and civil servants who were present at the ceremony also shared in the joy and experience of the awardees.
Speaking about the aims of the award scheme, Mr Cheung said, "Apart from commending the outstanding participants in the award scheme, we hope to provide a platform for colleagues to learn about and exchange their experience, as well as encourage them to enhance the quality of service with creative mindsets so that local people can continue to live and work happily."
This year, 33 entries from 19 bureaux and departments were awarded under nine categories of the award scheme. Award-winning departments and entries were assessed by members of the public and 60 adjudicators from different sectors and professions, including Legislative and District Councillors, staff members of the Central Consultative Councils of the Civil Service, representatives from professional organisations, experienced practitioners from service industries and senior officials from the Civil Service Bureau (CSB).
One of the chairpersons of the final adjudication panels of this year's award scheme, Mr Poon Siu-ping, who was also an officiating guest today, praised the civil servants for providing "citizen-centric" services to the public. He expressed his support to the CSB to continue organising the award scheme.
The Civil Service Outstanding Service Award Scheme, launched by the CSB in 1999 as a biennial event, aims to recognise the efforts of government departments and teams in providing outstanding services to the community, promote a customer-focused culture and inspire civil servants to continuously strive for excellence in service delivery.
This year's award scheme was co-organised by the Hong Kong Management Association. Awards under the scheme are presented at three levels, namely the inter-departmental partnership award, departmental awards and team awards. All entries go through two stages of rigorous adjudication.
To promote the commendable efforts of the awardees, the CSB has arranged to present this year's winning cases in a one-hour TV episode on TVB Jade at 7.30pm and RTHK TV 31 at 9pm on September 26 (Saturday).
Details of the Civil Service Outstanding Service Award Scheme are available on the following website (www.servicexcellence.gov.hk).
Ends/Friday, September 4, 2015
Issued at HKT 19:25
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