Hong Kong: Correctional Services Dept turns 100 A group of correctional officers has composed five songs and compiled them into a commemorative album titled A Century of Passion to celebrate the centenary of the Correctional Services Department. Today is the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the department. Initially known as the Prisons Department, it started to manage all prison facilities in Hong Kong after formally separating from Police in 1920. Commissioner of Correctional Services Woo Ying-ming said in a special message in the commemorative album that the department officially undertook the mission of upholding the last element for society a century ago.