page_title: Organised crime in Hong Kong
hierarchical_section_title: Organised crime in Hong Kong
caption_attribution_description: Kowloon Walled City - Hong Kong - this was in September 1991 shortly before they demolished the place and replaced it with quite a nice park en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City www.lcsd.gov.hk/parks/kwcp/en/index.php
context_page_description: The name most associated with organised crime within Hong Kong, is the many branches of Chinese underground society and organisations known as the Triads.
  Triad gang activities are mainly territorial and commonly involve the following types of offences:
  Extortion and protection racketeering of shops, small business, hawkers, construction sites, car valet services, and places of public entertainment such as bars, billiard halls etc.;
  Monopolising control of non-franchised public transport routes;
  Monopolising control of decoration companies operating in newly built public housing estates;
  Street-level dangerous drug trafficking;
  Illegal gambling, and prostitution and pornography.
  Although one of the most famous criminal organisations in the region, the Triads are not the only source of organised crime in Hong Kong.
  Smuggling, counterfeit goods, corruption and prostitution syndicates are all the result of organised groups operating in the territory.
  Generally organised crime groups in Hong Kong keep a low profile and many of its most profitable activities do not attract high levels of public outrage e.g. illegal gambling and copyright piracy.
context_section_description: The name most associated with organised crime within Hong Kong  (known in Cantonese as 黑社會 lit.: 'black society'), is the many branches of Chinese underground society and organisations known as the Triads. 
  Triad gang activities are mainly territorial and commonly involve the following types of offences:
  Extortion and protection racketeering of shops, small business, hawkers, construction sites, car valet services, and places of public   entertainment such as bars, billiard halls etc.;
  Monopolising control of non-franchised public transport routes;
  Monopolising control of decoration companies operating in newly built public housing estates;
  Street-level dangerous drug trafficking;
  Illegal gambling, and prostitution and pornography.
  Although one of the most famous criminal organisations in the region, the Triads are not the only source of organised crime in Hong Kong.
  Smuggling (both goods and people), counterfeit goods, corruption and prostitution syndicates are all the result of organised groups operating in the territory.  
  Generally organised crime groups in Hong Kong keep a low profile and many of its most profitable activities do not attract high levels of public outrage e.g. illegal gambling and copyright piracy.
  As organised crime does not necessarily equate with street crime, it has been said that Hong Kong society can be lulled into a false sense of security. Without high levels of street crime and no great numbers of Mafia-style organised crime syndicates, it has been suggested that the people of Hong Kong, believe that their society is, in law and order terms, healthy and clean, although this may not be the case.
caption: Kowloon Walled City - Hong Kong (1991)
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