HKASC Director Chester Chong Captures Top Gun Award and Provides Arresting Experience for LA Sheriffs in Hong Kong (May 2005)

Seldom does one make institutional history, but HKASC Director Chester Chong made it three times in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD).

The first was when he shot a perfect 300 score on October 26, 2004, the covered trophy of the best marksmen, and a prize claimed by only a few sharp shooters in the LASD. To do so, one needs to shoot it at at the standard Pistol Range at the Biscailuz Center, using a Department authorized weapon, a 6 inch barrel revolver, and never miss the bull's eye in all 30 shots, at a distance of 25 yards. Having realized the impossible dream of many, his next challenge would be to do it with his left hand, and blind-fol.

The second was his promotion to be Reserve Commander of LASD on December 10, 2004. The event marked the occasion that a Chinese-American has made that lofty rank in the largest Sheriff Department in the U.S. and the world, and the second largest law-enforcement agency in the U.S. There are only 23 Reserve Commanders in the LASD.

The third was the lead story in the May, 2005 issue of Star News, the official publcation of LASD, which features the trip of 70 Sheriff's Department members and their family and friends led by Chester on a week-long trip in March, 2005 through Hong Kong, with stops at Macau, Zhuhai, and Shenzhen. The official program includes a visit to the Stanley Prison, viewing a 150-person riot and crowd control demonstration by Hong Kong's "Blue Beret Police", and official banquet hosted by the Zhuhai Public Security Bureau, and a comparative study of the Macau vs. the Las Vegas casinos. The off-duty program consisted of tasting scampi in tomato sauce on board of the Jumbo Floating Restaurant in Aberdeen, sampling snake stew in Ap-li Street in Kowloon, hunting for bargains at Shenzhen's shopping malls and street vendors. Accoridng to a senior inspector of the HKPD, the LASD delegation was not only the largest extraterritorial police delgation ever visited Hong Kong, but also the most disciplined, filing in formation as they alighted or boarded the bus,and refrained fom smoking during the entire four-hour visit.

For anyone who is interested in beating the score of Top Gun in LASD, or to wrestle one-arm bandits in the Macau casino, call Sgt. John Reuff at 1-562-946-7879 and ask how to be a reserve deputy of the LASD.

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