{"id":166103,"date":"2026-04-18T21:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=166103"},"modified":"2026-04-18T21:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:02:15","slug":"hk-must-beef-up-animal-cruelty-probes-ombudsman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=166103","title":{"rendered":"HK must beef up animal cruelty probes: Ombudsman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsstatic.rthk.hk\/images\/mfile_1851354_1_M_20260416183327.jpg\" alt=\"news image\"><br \/>Ombudsman Jack Chan on Thursday questioned whether the authorities take reports of animal cruelty seriously, after uncovering inconsistent and ineffective investigations into suspected abuse. <\/p>\n<p>Announcing the findings of a direct investigation, Chan issued 45 improvement recommendations to the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD).<\/p>\n<p>The probe &ndash; launched to &ldquo;give a voice to the voiceless animals&rdquo; &ndash; found that AFCD staff repeatedly abandoned follow-up actions when unable to access private flats and lacked basic operational guidelines&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.rthk.hk\/rthk\/en\/component\/k2\/1851354-20260416.htm\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#38405;&#35835;&#26356;&#22810;&#65288;Read More&#65289;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ombudsman Jack Chan on Thursday questioned whether the  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-localnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}