Tsang Yam Pui

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Tsang Yam Pui, GBS (Chinese: 曾蔭培, Pinyin: Zēng Yīnpéi, born 1946 in Hong Kong) was the Commissioner of Police of Hong Kong from January 2001 to December 2003. Tsang joined the Royal Hong Kong Police Force (now Hong Kong Police Force) in January 1966 as a Probationary Inspector.

A remarkable family, his elder brother Donald Tsang was previously Financial Secretary and has been the Chief Executive of Hong Kong since mid-2005 and other siblings have all attained success in their chosen field. Their father was a member of the police force attaining the rank of staff sergeant I during a period when this position wielded considerable power and influence.

Tsang was considered a formidable Deputy Commissioner, a driving force behind many and much-needed initiatives to modernize the HKP and cut away the organization's 'fat'.

His period as Commissioner however proved to be more beneficial for the government than for HK's 27,000 police men and women. Notwithstanding the fine work the force did during the difficult period between 1997 and 2004, Tsang blindly complied with government economic policies to the severe detriment of force members' pay and conditions. His failure to make the case for his officers had a severely negative effect on morale that has still to be properly addressed and corrected.

Following retirement, in June 2004 Tsang Yam Pui was appointed Executive Director of 'New World Service Holdings', a subsidiary of New World Development. This move was criticised in many quarters by those uncomfortable with retired government officials with extensive connections and valuable pensions gaining further lucrative employment with Hong Kong's corporate tycoons. Tsang's remit covers New World bus and ferry companies where his skills and contacts in the police and government can be utilised.