Board game simulation allows kids to role play as Hong Kong police

Players of the tabletop game can rise through the ranks of the Hong Kong Police Force by tackling cases from illegal massage parlors to murders. Photos: Kowloon City JPC
Players of the tabletop game can rise through the ranks of the Hong Kong Police Force by tackling cases from illegal massage parlors to murders. Photos: Kowloon City JPC

Kids can now role play as crime-busting police officers in a board game simulation that aims to boost knowledge of law enforcement in Hong Kong.

The game, with a name that translates as “Kowloon City Little Pioneers,” is a collaboration between Kowloon City district’s Police Community Relations Office and Junior Police Call, a scheme for aspiring police officers as young as six.

Earlier this week, students at Po Leung Kuk Lam Man Chan English Primary School in To Kwa Wan tried their hand at a life-sized version of the “Kowloon City Little Pioneers,” the school’s sports court converted into a tabletop game set-up.

In the game, set in Kowloon City and featuring places in the district including Kowloon Walled City Park and Sung Wong Toi, players use police equipment listed on the cards—including search warrants, handcuffs and guns—to fight crime.

For every case they complete successfully, from escorting public officials to busting an illegal massage parlor to investigating a murder, players can rise up a rank. Players win by being promoted to Police Commissioner, the top rank.

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Around 80 schools in the Kowloon City District have been gifted the board game.

The game first debuted last year, according to a promotional video on the Kowloon City Junior Police Call Facebook page.

Kowloon City’s District Fight Crime Committee Chairman Lin Wei-qiao hopes that the board game would allow youth to understand “what is right and what is wrong” in the wake of the anti-extradition bill protests, HK01 reported.

Last year, Kowloon City police released a similarly themed board game inspired by tabletop favorites Monopoly, Snakes and Ladders and Ludo, to promote law-abiding behavior among youth.



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