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Stephen Lo, current Commissioner of Police

The Commissioner of Police (Chinese: 警務處處長) heads the Hong Kong Police Force and reports to the Secretary for Security.

Officers in command under British rule

Chief magistrates
  • 1841 – Captain William Caine
  • 1844 (Feb) – Captain Haly
  • 1844 (Mar) – Captain Bruce
Captains-superintendent
  • 1845 – Charles May
  • 1860 – Edmund Haythorne
  • 1862 – William Quin
  • 1866 – Walter Deane
  • 1892 – Major-General Alexander Adam
  • 1893 – Francis Henry May
  • 1902 – Joseph Badeley
  • 1913 – Charles Messer
  • 1918 – Edward Wolfe
Inspectors-general
  • 1930 – Edward Wolfe
  • 1934 – Thomas King
Commissioners
  • 1938 – Thomas King
  • 1941 – John Pennefather-Evans
  • 1946 – Colonel C. H. Samson (British Military Administration)
  • 1946 – Duncan McIntosh
  • 1953 – Arthur Maxwell
  • 1959 – Henry Heath
  • 1966 – Edward Tyrer
  • 1967 – Edward Eates
  • 1969 – Charles Payne Sutcliffe
  • 1974 – Brian Slevin
  • 1979 – Roy Henry
  • 1985 – Raymon Anning
  • 1989 – Li Kwan Ha
  • 1994 – Eddie Hui

Officers in command since the foundation of Special Administrative Region

File:Tang King Shing.jpg
Tang King Shing in 2007, he served as the Commissioner of Police from 2007 to 2011.
Commissioners of Police
Name Took office Left office
Hui Ki-on 1997 2001
Tsang Yam-pui 2001 2003
Lee Ming Kwai, Dick 2003 2007
Tang King-shing 2007 2011
Tsang Wai-hung 2011 2015
Lo Wai-chung 2015 Incumbent
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