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{{Infobox Political post
|post            = <small>[[Hong Kong]]<br />[[Special administrative regions of China|Special Administrative Region]]</small><br />Secretary for Security
|body            = 
|nativename      = 保安局局長
|insignia        = Regional Emblem of Hong Kong.svg
|insigniacaption = [[Emblem of Hong Kong]]
|department      = [[Security Bureau (Hong Kong)|Security Bureau]]
|image           = Tang Ping-keung 20201012.jpg
|alt             = 
|incumbent       = [[Chris Tang]]
|incumbentsince  = 25 June 2021
|style           = [[The Honourable]]
|residence       = 
|nominator       = 
|nominatorpost   = 
|appointer       = [[State Council of the People's Republic of China|Central People's Government]]<br><small>(via nomination by the [[Chief Executive of Hong Kong|Chief Executive]])</small>
|appointerpost   = 
|termlength      = 
|inaugural       = [[Peter Lai Hing-ling|Peter Lai]]
|formation       = 1 July 2007
|last            = 
|abolished       = 
|succession      = 
|deputy          = 
|salary          = [[Hong Kong dollar|HK$]]4,021,200<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201612/12/P2016121200324.htm|title=Remuneration package for Politically Appointed Officials serving in fifth-term HKSAR Government|website=[[Government of Hong Kong]]|date=12 December 2016|access-date=27 January 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://gia.info.gov.hk/general/201612/12/P2016121200324_249496_1_1481512852517.pdf |title=Report on the Remuneration Package for Politically-Appointed Officials serving in the Fifth-Term HKSAR Government |website=[[Government of Hong Kong]] |date=November 2016 |access-date=7 November 2024 |page=Annex D}}</ref>
|website         = [http://www.sb.gov.hk/ Security Bureau]
}}

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The '''Secretary for Security''' is the member of the [[Government of Hong Kong]] in charge of the [[Security Bureau (Hong Kong)|Security Bureau]], which is responsible for public safety, security, and immigration matters.

The post was created in 1973 and since the [[Principal Officials Accountability System]] was adopted in 2002, the Secretary for Security has been a member of the [[Executive Council of Hong Kong|Executive Council]]. Before 1973, the office was known as the '''Secretary for Defence'''.

Areas of responsibility include:

* [[Hong Kong Police Force|Police Force]]
* [[Hong Kong Correctional Services|Correctional Services]]
* [[Immigration Department (Hong Kong)|Immigration Department]]
* [[Customs and Excise Department (Hong Kong)|Customs and Excise Department]]
* [[Hong Kong Fire Services Department|Fire Services Department]]
* [[Government Flying Service (Hong Kong)|Government Flying Service]]
* [[Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre]]

==List of office holders==
'''Political party:''' {{legend2|{{party color|Nonpartisan}}|[[Nonpartisanism|Nonpartisan]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}

===Defence Secretary, 1941===
{|class="wikitable"  style="text-align:left"
|-
! width=10px| {{Abbr|No.|Number}}
! width=80px| Portrait
! width=180px| Name
! width=180px colspan=2| Term of office
! width=120px|[[Governor of Hong Kong|Governor]]
! Ref
|-
| align=center| 1 || [[File:John Alexander Fraser.jpg|80px]] || [[John Alexander Fraser]]<br>傅瑞憲 || April 1941 || 25 December 1941 || [[Mark Aitchison Young]]<br>{{small|(1941)}} ||
|-
|}

===Defence Secretaries, 1957–1969===
{|class="wikitable"  style="text-align:left"
|-
! width=10px| {{Abbr|No.|Number}}
! width=80px| Portrait
! width=180px| Name
! width=180px colspan=2| Term of office
! width=120px|[[Governor of Hong Kong|Governor]]
! Ref
|-
| rowspan=2 align=center| 1 || rowspan=2| [[File:No image.svg|80px]] || rowspan="2" | [[Alastair Todd]]<br>陶雅禮 || rowspan=2| 1957 || rowspan=2| 19 October 1960 || Sir [[Alexander Grantham]]<br>{{small|(1947–1957)}} ||rowspan="2"| <ref name="gaz196010">{{cite journal |title=No. 1573 of 1960 |journal=Hong Kong Government Gazette |date = 21 October 1960|volume=102|page=1935}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan=4 | Sir [[Robert Brown Black]]<br>{{small|(1958–1964)}} 
|-
| align=center| 2 || [[File:No image.svg|80px]] || [[Kenneth Strathmore Kinghorn]]<br>景韓 || 20 October 1960 || 22 November 1960 ||  <ref name="gaz196010"/><ref name="gaz196011">{{cite journal |title=No. 1774 of 1960 |journal=Hong Kong Government Gazette |date = 25 November 1960|volume=102|page=2176}}</ref>
|-
| align=center| 3 || [[File:No image.svg|80px]] ||[[Donald Luddington]]<br>陸鼎堂 || 23 November 1960 || 17 December 1961 || <ref name="gaz196011"/><ref name="gaz1961">{{cite journal |title=No. 2232 of 1961 |journal=Hong Kong Government Gazette |date = 22 December 1961|volume=103|page=3315}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan=2 align=center| 4 || rowspan=2 | [[File:No image.svg|80px]] || rowspan="2" | 	[[David Harold Jordan]]<br>左敦 || rowspan=2 | 18 December 1961 || rowspan=2| 27 November 1966 ||rowspan="2"| <ref name="gaz1961"/><ref name="gaz1966">{{cite journal |title=G.N. 2992 of 1966 |journal=Hong Kong Government Gazette |date = 2 December 1966|volume=108|page=2956}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan=7| Sir [[David Trench]]<br>{{small|(1964–1971)}} 
|-
| align=center| 5 || [[File:No image.svg|80px]] ||  [[Peter Barry Williams]]<br>衛理欽  || 28 November 1966 || 8 February 1967 ||  <ref name="gaz1966"/><ref name="gaz196702">{{cite journal |title=G.N. 274 of 1967 |journal=Hong Kong Government Gazette |date =8 February 1967|volume=109|page=276}}</ref>
|-
| align=center| 6 || [[File:No image.svg|80px]] || [[Jack Cater]]<br>姬達 || 9 February 1967 || 21 May 1967 || <ref name="gaz196702"/><ref name="gaz196705"/>
|-
| align=center| 7 || [[File:No image.svg|80px]] || [[Peter Barry Williams]]<br>	衛理欽 || 22 May 1967 || 31 March 1968 || <ref name="gaz196705">{{cite journal |title=G.N. 1096 of 1967 |journal=Hong Kong Government Gazette |date =26 May 1967|volume=109|page=1191}}</ref><ref name="gaz196804">{{cite journal |title=G.N. 661 of 1968 |journal=Hong Kong Government Gazette |date =4 April 1967|volume=110|page=667}}</ref>
|-
| align=center| 8 || [[File:No image.svg|80px]] || [[Alastair Todd]]<br>陶雅禮 || 1 April 1968 || 9 August 1968 || <ref name="gaz196804"/><ref name="gaz196808">{{cite journal |title=G.N. 1617 of 1968 |journal=Hong Kong Government Gazette |date=9 August 1968|volume=110|page=1628}}</ref>
|-
| align=center| 9 || [[File:No image.svg|80px]] || [[Ian Macdonald Lightbody]]<br>黎保德 || 10 August 1968 || 19 February 1969 || <ref name="gaz196808"/><ref name="gaz1969">{{cite journal |title=G.N. 424 of 1969 |journal=Hong Kong Government Gazette |date=7 March 1969|volume=111|page=488}}</ref>
|-
| align=center| 10 || [[File:No image.svg|80px]] || [[Alastair Todd]]<br>陶雅禮 || 20 February 1969 || 1971 || <ref name="gaz1969"/>
|}

===Secretaries for Security, 1973–1997===
{|class="wikitable"  style="text-align:left"
|-
! width=10px| {{Abbr|No.|Number}}
! width=80px| Portrait
! width=180px| Name
! width=180px colspan=2| Term of office
! width=120px|[[Governor of Hong Kong|Governor]]
! Ref
|-
| align=center| 1 || [[File:No image.svg|80px]] || [[George Peter Lloyd]]<br>羅以德 || June 1973 || March 1974 || rowspan=2| Sir [[Murray MacLehose]]<br>{{small|(1971–1982)}} ||
|-
| rowspan=2 align=center| 2 ||rowspan=2|  [[File:No image.svg|80px]] || rowspan="2" |  [[Lewis Mervyn Davis]]<br>戴宏志 ||rowspan=2|  March 1974 ||rowspan=2|  October 1982 || 
|-
| rowspan=2| Sir [[Edward Youde]]<br>{{small|(1982–1986)}} ||
|-
| rowspan=2 align=center| 3 || rowspan=2| [[File:No image.svg|80px]] || rowspan="2" | [[David Jeaffreson]]<br>謝法新 || rowspan=2| November 1982 || rowspan=2| February 1988 || 
|-
| rowspan=3| Sir [[David Clive Wilson|David Wilson]]<br>{{small|(1986–1992)}} ||
|-
| align=center| 4 || [[File:No image.svg|80px]] ||[[Geoffrey Thomas Barnes|Geoffrey Barnes]]<br>班乃信 || February 1988 || February 1990 || 
|-
| rowspan=2 align=center| 5 || rowspan=2| [[File:No image.svg|80px]] || rowspan="2" | [[Alistair Asprey]]<br>區士培 ||rowspan=2| February 1990 ||rowspan=2| February 1995 || 
|-
| rowspan=2| [[Chris Patten]]<br>{{small|(1992–1997)}} ||
|-
| align=center| 6 || [[File:No image.svg|80px]] ||[[Peter Lai Hing-ling|Peter Lai]]<br>黎慶寧 || February 1995 || 30 June 1997 || 
|}

===Secretaries for Security, 1997–present===
{|class="wikitable"  style="text-align:left"
|-
! width=10px| {{Abbr|No.|Number}}
! width=80px| Portrait
! width=180px| Name
! width=180px colspan=2| Term of office
! width=80px | Duration
! width=120px|[[Chief Executive of Hong Kong|Chief Executive]]
! Term
! Ref
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Nonpartisan}} align=center| 1 || [[File:No image.svg|80px]] || [[Peter Lai Hing-ling]]<br>黎慶寧 || 1 July 1997 || 30 August 1998 || {{Age in years and days|1997|7|1|1998|8|30}} || rowspan=4| [[Tung Chee-hwa]]<br>{{small|(1997–2002)}} || rowspan=2 align=center|[[First term of Tung Chee-hwa as Chief Executive of Hong Kong|1]] ||
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Nonpartisan}} rowspan=2 align=center| 2 || rowspan=2 | [[File:Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee.jpg|80px]] || rowspan="2" | [[Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee]]<br>葉劉淑儀 || rowspan=2 | 31 August 1998 || rowspan=2 | 3 August 2003 || rowspan=2 | {{Age in years and days|1998|8|31|2003|8|3}} || 
|-
| rowspan=2 align=center|[[Second term of Tung Chee-hwa as Chief Executive of Hong Kong|2]] ||
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Nonpartisan}} rowspan=3 align=center| 3 || rowspan=3 | [[File:No image.svg|80px]] || rowspan="3" | [[Ambrose Lee Siu-kwong]]<br>李少光 || rowspan=3 | 4 August 2003 || rowspan=3 | 30 June 2012 || rowspan=3 | {{Age in years and days|2003|8|4|2012|6|30}} || 
|-
|rowspan=2| [[Donald Tsang]]<br>{{small|(2005–2012)}} || align=center|[[First term of Donald Tsang as Chief Executive of Hong Kong|2]] ||
|-
| align=center|[[Second term of Donald Tsang as Chief Executive of Hong Kong|3]] ||
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Nonpartisan}} align=center| 4 || [[File:Lai Tung-kwok.jpg|80px]] || [[Lai Tung-kwok]]<br>黎棟國 || 1 July 2012 || 30 June 2017 || {{Age in years and days|2012|7|1|2017|7|1}} || [[Leung Chun-ying]]<br>{{small|(2012–2017)}} || align=center|[[Leung Chun-ying as Chief Executive of Hong Kong|4]] ||
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Nonpartisan}} align=center| 5 || [[File:香港保安局局長李家超 (cropped).jpg|80px]] || [[John Lee Ka-chiu]]<br>李家超 || 1 July 2017 || 24 June 2021 || {{Age in years and days|2017|7|1|2021|6|25}} ||  rowspan=2| [[Carrie Lam]]<br>{{small|(2017–2022)}} || rowspan=2 align=center|[[Carrie Lam as Chief Executive of Hong Kong|5]] ||
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Nonpartisan}}  rowspan=2 align=center| 6 ||rowspan=2| [[File:Tang Ping-keung 20201012.jpg|80px]] ||rowspan=2|  [[Chris Tang Ping-keung]]<br>鄧炳強 ||rowspan=2| 25 June 2021 ||rowspan=2| Incumbent ||rowspan=3| {{Age in years and days|2021|6|25}} ||
|-
| [[John Lee (government official)|John Lee]]<br>{{small|(2022–present)}} || align=center|[[Lee government|6]] ||
|}

==References==
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{{HK Principal Officials}}
{{Security Bureau (Hong Kong)}}

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[[Category:Government ministers of Hong Kong]]
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