Secretary for Security

The Secretary for Security is the member of the Government of Hong Kong in charge of the 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. Before 1973, the office was known as the Secretary for Defence.

Areas of responsibility include:

• Police Force
• Correctional Services
• Immigration Department
• Customs and Excise Department
• Fire Services Department
• Government Flying Service
• Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre

List of office holders

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Defence Secretary, 1941

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Governor	Ref
1	File:John Alexander Fraser.jpg	John Alexander Fraser 傅瑞憲	April 1941	25 December 1941	Mark Aitchison Young (1941)

Defence Secretaries, 1957–1969

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Governor	Ref
1	File:No image.svg	Alastair Todd 陶雅禮	1957	19 October 1960	Sir Alexander Grantham (1947–1957)
					Sir Robert Brown Black (1958–1964)
2	File:No image.svg	Kenneth Strathmore Kinghorn 景韓	20 October 1960	22 November 1960
3	File:No image.svg	Donald Luddington 陸鼎堂	23 November 1960	17 December 1961
4	File:No image.svg	David Harold Jordan 左敦	18 December 1961	27 November 1966
					Sir David Trench (1964–1971)
5	File:No image.svg	Peter Barry Williams 衛理欽	28 November 1966	8 February 1967
6	File:No image.svg	Jack Cater 姬達	9 February 1967	21 May 1967
7	File:No image.svg	Peter Barry Williams 衛理欽	22 May 1967	31 March 1968
8	File:No image.svg	Alastair Todd 陶雅禮	1 April 1968	9 August 1968
9	File:No image.svg	Ian Macdonald Lightbody 黎保德	10 August 1968	19 February 1969
10	File:No image.svg	Alastair Todd 陶雅禮	20 February 1969	1971

Secretaries for Security, 1973–1997

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Governor	Ref
1	File:No image.svg	George Peter Lloyd 羅以德	June 1973	March 1974	Sir Murray MacLehose (1971–1982)
2	File:No image.svg	Lewis Mervyn Davis 戴宏志	March 1974	October 1982
					Sir Edward Youde (1982–1986)
3	File:No image.svg	David Jeaffreson 謝法新	November 1982	February 1988
					Sir David Wilson (1986–1992)
4	File:No image.svg	Geoffrey Barnes 班乃信	February 1988	February 1990
5	File:No image.svg	Alistair Asprey 區士培	February 1990	February 1995
					Chris Patten (1992–1997)
6	File:No image.svg	Peter Lai 黎慶寧	February 1995	30 June 1997

Secretaries for Security, 1997–present

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Duration	Chief Executive	Term	Ref
bgcolor=Template:Party color align=center| 1	File:No image.svg	Peter Lai Hing-ling 黎慶寧	1 July 1997	30 August 1998	Template:Age in years and days	Tung Chee-hwa (1997–2002)	1
bgcolor=Template:Party color rowspan=2 align=center| 2	File:Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee.jpg	Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee 葉劉淑儀	31 August 1998	3 August 2003	Template:Age in years and days
2
	bgcolor=Template:Party color rowspan=3 align=center| 3	File:No image.svg	Ambrose Lee Siu-kwong 李少光	4 August 2003	30 June 2012		Template:Age in years and days
Donald Tsang (2005–2012)	2
	3
bgcolor=Template:Party color align=center| 4	File:Lai Tung-kwok.jpg	Lai Tung-kwok 黎棟國	1 July 2012	30 June 2017	Template:Age in years and days	Leung Chun-ying (2012–2017)	4
bgcolor=Template:Party color align=center| 5	File:香港保安局局長李家超 (cropped).jpg	John Lee Ka-chiu 李家超	1 July 2017	24 June 2021	Template:Age in years and days	Carrie Lam (2017–2022)	5
bgcolor=Template:Party color rowspan=2 align=center| 6	File:Tang Ping-keung 20201012.jpg	Chris Tang Ping-keung 鄧炳強	25 June 2021	Incumbent	Template:Age in years and days
John Lee (2022–present)						6