A police officer from the West Kowloon District Crime Unit will be investigated by the Department of Justice, after a sex worker claimed he slept with her while conducting an anti-vice operation.
Korean tourist Lee Jungha, 34, was jailed for six weeks yesterday after admitting she breached the conditions of her stay by working without the approval of the Immigration Department, HK01 reports. However, Lee, who had taken work as a prostitute, accused a police officer who had posed as a client of misconduct, saying that she had sex with him while he was investigating her.
Lee, who entered Hong Kong on March 3 as a tourist, met the police officer on March 7, at a hotel room in Tseung Kwan O. He accepted her offer for sexual services and paid her HKD4,000 in marked bills, the court heard. The officer had previously reported that he made up an excuse after Lee accepted the money and asked her to leave.
However, Lee denied the officer’s account, saying that she spent over an hour in the room with him, during which they chatted, drank alcohol, and had sex. Police officers are not permitted to engage in oral or penetrative sex during such operations.
According to Ming Pao, the magistrate said the policeman’s actions were not relevant to the case, as Lee had been charged for breaching the conditions of her stay, but that the facts had to be “clarified”. SCMP reports that senior public prosecutor Franco Kuan said, “Given the severity of the case, the Department of Justice will follow up.”
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