Stranger danger report at Fanling Kindergarten prompts police patrols

The Hong Kong Police Force has stepped up patrols in the vicinity of a Fanling kindergarten after reports of children being followed by strangers after leaving the campus.

The news came on the heels of a kidnapping case in Tseung Kwan O that saw a three-year-old boy taken from a shopping mall. He was later rescued in a private estate nearby with two women in the flat arrested.

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The Fanling kindergarten, ELCHK Cheung Wah Kindergarten, issued a notice to parents on Wednesday alerting them of an incident that saw a K1 student being followed by strangers after school.

According to the notice, a parent had reported to the school witnessing a K1 student being followed by a Mandarin-speaking woman at a park near Fanling Centre on Tuesday afternoon.

The parent was said to have immediately called out the woman, with the woman then backing away from the child and leaving the area with another man waiting nearby.

The school, in the notice, called on parents to keep a close tab on their children when taking daily trips.

On Wednesday morning, the Sheung Shui police district stepped up patrols in Fanling, also dispatching plainclothes officers outside the kindergarten.