Press Release

CSD video "Try" shows friendly match between young persons in custody and Hong Kong Representative Touch Team

     The Correctional Services Department (CSD) today (March 31) released a video entitled "Try", featuring young persons in custody at Pik Uk Correctional Institution who have completed the Touch Rugby Referee Training elementary course. The course was organised by the CSD and the Hong Kong Rugby Union (HKRU), and aimed to enable young persons in custody to learn to judge right and wrong, build up self-confidence and strengthen their determination for rehabilitation.

     The video features the young persons in custody discussing their experience and also shows them putting their training into practice by joining a friendly match with the Hong Kong Representative Touch Team and acting as referees in the friendly match.

     The Head Coach of the Hong Kong Representative Touch Team, Mr Yong Chi-fung, said in the video that people sometimes fall and even face failures when playing rugby. They have to stand up again on their own. He expressed the hope that young persons in custody will work hard to strive for success and a bright future, just as one must persevere to score a try in matches.

     Touch rugby players can score a try when the ball is held to touch the ground in the in-goal area beyond the opponents' goal line. Touch rugby is challenging as it places emphases on speed, response and teamwork. Young persons in custody who participated in the course faced all the challenges with a positive attitude, and finished the friendly match with team spirit.

     Members of the public are invited to watch and share the video, which has been uploaded to the CSD YouTube Channel at www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7ML48b3gxc&feature=youtu.be.

Ends/Sunday, March 31, 2019
Issued at HKT 15:02

The Correctional Services Department today (March 31) released a video entitled "Try", in which young persons in custody who have completed the Touch Rugby Referee Training elementary course discuss their experience. Photo shows a young person in custody acting as a referee in a friendly match with the Hong Kong Representative Touch Team.

The Correctional Services Department today (March 31) released a video entitled "Try", in which young persons in custody who have completed the Touch Rugby Referee Training elementary course discuss their experience. Photo shows the Head Coach of the Hong Kong Representative Touch Team, Mr Yong Chi-fung, teaching young persons in custody a referee's commands and signals.

The Correctional Services Department today (March 31) released a video entitled "Try", in which young persons in custody who have completed the Touch Rugby Referee Training elementary course discuss their experience. Photo shows a young person in custody and members of the Hong Kong Representative Touch Team in a friendly match.