Hong Kong police have held a counter-terrorism drill, aiming to test their capability1 to handle scenarios2 that have been seen elsewhere around the world.
香港警方举行一场反恐演习，意在测试一下他们应对已在世界其他地区出现的恐怖袭击的能力。
The drill imagined terrorists attacking people with knives, pistols and home-made hand grenades, with several simulated terrorist attacks happening at different places at the same time,
replicating4 methods similar to those adopted by terrorists in the Paris November 2015 attacks or the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
The goal of the exercise is to assess the effectiveness of
contingency5 plans and to ensure that the officers are ready for any
scenario3, even though Hong Kong's terrorism threat level
remains6 at "moderate".
"I must stress that so far there is no specific intelligence to suggest that Hong Kong is a target of terrorist attack and the overall terrorist threat level against Hong Kong remains moderate," said John Tse, Hong Kong Police Spokesman. "However, looking at the latest global terrorist situation, we know that the patterns of terrorist attack now today are hard to predict."
The four-day drill, code-named "HARDSHIELD", involves the police Emergency Unit, Counter Terrorism Response Unit, Special Duties Unit, and Police
Negotiation7 Cadre, as well as other agencies.
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