The Budget announces the revised accounts of each department for the current year and the budget for the following year. As a result of the Police Force’s handling of the anti-ELAB protests, there has been a significant increase in expenditure for the current year (FY 2019/20), with a revised estimate of $23.59 billion, nearly $3 billion more than the original approved budget. The largest expenditure is on allowances for police officers, revised from the original estimate of $260 million to $2.549 billion, an increase of nearly nine times.

With 35,436 officers in the police force in 2019, an average of $72,000 is paid to each officer.

If we take the current year’s revised estimated expenditure of $23.59 billion, it is a big increase of $3.6 billion or 17.7% compared to last year (2018/2019).

The Budget estimates that the expenditure of the Police Force for the coming year, 2020/21, will continue to increase unabated, with an estimated expenditure of $25.79 billion, representing an increase of 9.3% over the current year’s revision and an even greater increase of 44% when compared to the expenditure of the Police Force five years ago.

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The Stand News - 【Budget】The Police Force has overspent by nearly 3 billion, personal allowances over 2.5 billion, which is nine times higher than budget, and is expected to spend 25.8 billion next year, an increase of 10%

Ming Pao -Police Force budget increase 24% to 25.8 billion to to buy vehicles, boats and ammunition, pro-establishment camp will support if necessary