Hongkongers report over 5,000 traffic violations in trial run of police’s new WeChat channel

Police superintendent Wong Ping-ping says she believes ‘a lot of people are actively using’ new reporting platform to report non-urgent traffic violations. WeChat was chosen as officers can preset the information required from users, including data about the person reporting and details about incidents. — SCMP

Hongkongers have filed more than 5,000 reports of traffic violations to police using a new social media channel in the first six weeks of its trial launch.

The submissions were all made using “Project Prove”, the police’s reporting tool on the Chinese social media platform WeChat.