The work of the Correctional Services Department is very essential to the community. By playing a corrective role, they strive to ensure that people detained under their custody are treated properly, fairly and with dignity so that they can live positively and will no longer cause disturbance in society. The Department also actively provides opportunities for prisoners to make a fresh start in life by offering them comprehensive rehabilitative programmes.
Assistant Officer II
Job Description
Supervise prisoners in prisons, young persons in training or detention centres and drug dependants in drug addiction treatment centres
Supervise illegal immigrants in detention centres
Qualities and Qualifications
Completed Form 3 (including Chinese and English languages) or equivalent
Patient and able to maintain discipline
Stable and balanced personality
Able to speak fluent Cantonese and English
Male: at least 162 cm in height and 50 kg in weight
Female: at least 152 cm in height and 42 kg in weight
Pass a fitness test
Training
23-week residential training
Field training at various correctional institutions
May undergo in-service training in hospital nursing duties
Correctional Officer
Job Description
Supervise junior staff, prisoners, young persons in training or detention centres, drug dependants in drug addiction treatment centres
Supervise junior staff and illegal immigrants in detention centres
Work in a prison hospital or in Aftercare Section
Undertake specific catering duties
Qualities and Qualifications
A pass in 1 subject at Advanced Level in the HKALE and Grade C or above in 3 other subjects in the HKCEE, or equivalent
(Grade E or above in Chinese Language and English Language (Syllabus B) in the HKCEE, or equivalent are required, if these subjects are not one of the subjects listed above)
Stable and balanced personality
Strong in leadership
Male: at least 162 cm in height and 50 kg in weight
Female: at least 152 cm in height and 42 kg in weight
Pass a fitness test
Training
26-week residential training
Field training at various correctional institutions
Working Conditions
Subject to discipline
Required to wear uniform, to work shifts and to live in departmental quarters
Enquiries
Please contact the Correctional Services Department for details: