The Police Mentorship Programme (PMP) was first launched in March 2004 as a proactive recruitment strategy to inspire high calibre undergraduates from local universities to join the Force as probationary inspectors (PIs) immediately after their graduation.
The primary objectives of the Programme are to:
Police Mentorship Programme is a network, which allows free interaction between selected police officers and elite undergraduate students of local universities. The Programme operates on a one-and-half-year basis. A Police Mentor will take care of a few Mentees and the recommended activities, accomplishes the objectives of the Programme.
Police Mentors are serving senior police offices who are graduates of one of the local universities, and are willing to spare his / her own time to facilitate the social personal development of local undergraduate students, giving them an insight of the police career by participating in social / university / Force events.
The Mentees are penultimate year undergraduate students who meet the basic requirements for application as a Probationary Inspector and have genuine interest in joining the Force as their life-long career.
The Career Planning and Developing Centre is a working partner of the Police Force in promoting PMP. Genuine support will be rendered in the following area:
“Job Attachment” was a new initiative under the 2007/08 Police Mentorship Programme (PMP).
To further promote the mentees’ interest in joining the Police Force, 51 mentees from the 2007/08 PMP have been chosen to undertake 39 projects/ job assignments in various Police Formations between June and August 2007. The primary objective is to provide a platform for the mentees to obtain work experience in their field of studies and appreciate the work of police through participation in projects. With Job Attachment being broadly divided into three categories, namely Research and Survey, Organizing Activities, and Designing Webpage and Database, PMP also aims to assist Formation to complete short-term projects pertaining to their District and/or Formations.
Basic requirements for application as a Probationary Inspector:
If you wish to join the Hong Kong Police Force as Inspector, you are expected to meet the requirements listed below.
You must be a permanent resident of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and have lived in Hong Kong for at least seven years.
You must also possess the following academic qualifications before you can be considered for the post of Inspector.
The minimum acceptance standard is as below :
Fitness Test Item | Male | Female |
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Vertical-jump | 45.7 cm | 35.6 cm |
Pull-up | 5 | 7 |
Shuttle-run (10x10M) | 26 sec. | 29 sec. |
Sit-up | 17 / 30 sec. | 15 / 30 sec. |
Squat-thrust | 14 / 30 sec. | 12 / 30 sec. |
800m Run | 3 min 25 sec. | 4 min 12 sec. |
Please refer to Police Force web for updates: http://www.police.gov.hk/ppp_en/15_recruit/index.html
Year | No. of Mentees |
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2004 - 2005 | 22 |
2005 - 2006 | 22 |
2006 - 2007 | 17 |
2007 - 2008 | 18 |
2008 - 2009 | 22 |
2009 - 2010 | 19 |
2010 - 2011 | 21 |