Blogs

What's a blog? That's short for Web log, an online journal of sorts. Check out our Blogs regularly for an early alert (before it shows up in our newsletter) to new and interesting things we have found in our ongoing search for information about the Hong Kong Disciplined Services.

Let us know if you have a blog -- we'll link it here.

Two new BSTS postings made to the Buy/Sell/Trade/Swap (BSTS) page. One from a Former RHKP Officer and one from a Civil Aid Badge Collector.
The BSTS page can be accessed by clicking here. 08.07.03-Thursday

Two new BSTS postings made to the Buy/Sell/Trade/Swap (BSTS) page.
The BSTS page can be accessed by clicking here. 07.20.03-Sunday

New BSTS posting made to the Buy/Sell/Trade/Swap (BSTS) page.
Little other activity as your webmaster is up to his ears in dust and dirt as a result of home renovations. Stay tuned, back to active HKDSC posting soon.
The BSTS page can be accessed by clicking here. 07.14.03-Monday

New Page for Buying/Selling Trading/Swapping (BSTS) As we have received a number of requests for various different items - many of which we can not fulfill - we have gone ahead and put together a posting board where members can list the items they wish to sell or trade. The listings page can be accessed by clicking here. 07.08.03-Tuesday

Not much activity in the past few days as your webmaster has been overwhelmed with redecorating his home. What a mess. 07.04.03-Friday

However, we are very PLEASED to have been approved this week by CopSeek.com and authorized to display their "approved" banner.

CopSeek has become the place where people come when they are looking for websites relating to law enforcement and we are very happy to be listed in their directory. Their banner will appear on our home page until the next newsletter and then we'll move it to the Hong Kong Police and Royal Hong Kong Police pages. 07.04.03-Friday

06.23.03 - Monday Just found a very well done Customs Collector site on the Internet. Maintained by Australian Customs Officer, John DeBelle, it is a tribute to Customs officers and Customs collectors around the world. His site has already won three awards from various organizations. He shows many Hong Kong patches that I have not seen before. Will contact John and see if we can use his collection as reference for future newsletter material. URL is www.customscollector.com

06.16.03 - Thursday Began researching awards and medals issued to members of the Disciplined Services. These will be the subject of a special newsletter on June 22nd and a major addition to the site for Awards and Medals. Thanks to Steve Veralls for his assistance in this area.

06.12.03 - Thursday Found two interesting Police websites that are related and make reference to the Hong Kong Police. One is a collection of police patches and the other a collection of police caps and hats. While they currently display several Hong Kong patches (including the Immigration Service shooting club) they do not have any HK caps or hats. Perhaps a member would like to offer a cap/hat to them or at least a photograph? Sites are http://ibelgique.ifrance.com/Police-collection/indexINSIGNES.htm and http://ibelgique.ifrance.com/Police-collection/indexHEADGEAR.htm both are now listed on our links page.

06.09.03-Monday Finished off the June newsletter and also found one more newsgroup - this one about Hong Kong Firemen. All newsgroups now listed on the links page. Newsletter will go out the morning of 6.11.03 Hong Kong time.

06.08.03-Sunday Found this site which provides all of the Orders, Decorations and Medals of Hong Kong in one simple chart. < http://www.medals.org.uk/hong-kong/hong-kong-ribbons.htm > Click on any of the ribbons and they will show you the ribbon as well as the actual medal. Seems to be a lot of the medals missing even though they have the ribbon.

Perhaps a better site is Protocol Division of the Hong Kong Government. That site is at
< http://www.info.gov.hk/protocol/honours/ >

There is also a great Orders, Decorations and Medals Website which is located at
< http://www.geocities.com/athens/4795/index.htm > and their Hong Kong page is at
< http://www.geocities.com/athens/4795/HongKong.htm >

06.03.03-Tuesday Mailed out two new HKPolice patches to new members - Robert Ingalls and Diane Madry. Thanks folks, and enjoy your new patches.

06.02.03-Monday Received a nice e-mail from a gentlman named Ushaq representing Bullion Company Limited in Rangapura, Pakistan. They are manufacturers and exporters of all kinds of bullion embroidery badges, family crests, cap visors etc. He can be contacted at bullion@skt.pol.com.pk It appears at the moment that they do not have a website.

06.01.03-Sunday Member Dennis Chan pointed us to two sites specializing in (among other things) 1/76 Hong Kong Fire Appliance Models, you may visit the site of their retailers, Metro Hobby at
< http://hk.geocities.com/metro_model39/subject.htm >
and Concorde Hobby at
< http://www.concordehobby.com/htm/mainpage.htm >

Thanks Dennis!

05.31.03-Saturday Found several interestng sites. One is maintained by member TST MCU which contains numerous photographs of current Hong Kong Fire and Police Appliances both on station and in operation. Well worth the look. < http://www.pbase.com/tstmcu/fire > Another is the Hong Kong Emergency Services Network < http://hkemergency.uhome.net/e_hkengine5.htm > which lists Hong Kong Fire engines divided into two different areas - pumping appliances and special appliances. Check out the "fire bicycles" on page 6! Yet another great site is Connie's Fire Rescue with some great apparatus photographs < http://members.lycos.co.uk/firerescue/index.htm >. And let's not forget the official Hong Kong Fire Services Department homepage which has a great intro movie. It can be found at
< http://www.info.gov.hk/hkfsd/home/eng/fsd_movie/FSD_movie5b.html/ > Too bad that one is so slow loading.

One other site we found today that is worthy of note is the Tsz Wan Shan Fire Station which is located at < http://members.tripod.com/twsfire/indexn.html >. It includes a "Hong Kong Fire Engine Database". If you know the license plate number of any vehicle, put it in and the site will show you the station location, manufacturer, body-works builder and some additional information about special equipment on the vehicle. And of course, a great station photo of each vehicle. If you don't know the registration number, just flip thru all the vehicles in license plate sequence. Wow !

I found a number of News Channels that are used to distribute photographs of current Hong Kong Fire and Police Apparatus around the net. It is quite a collection! Here is a list of the ones found so far: