Collins LEUNG, currently is the Acting Chief Inspector of Police in Technology Crime Division, Commercial Crime Bureau, Hong Kong Police. His major duties include managing the computer forensics laboratory and the technology crime initial response cadre (TCIRC).  He is also responsible for computer forensics examination, training, research and scene of crime handling involving digital evidence.

Collins has a wide exposure to the investigation of technology crimes and using computer forensics techniques to retrieve digital evidence. He has over 15 years of service in the Hong Kong Police. For the past 8 years, he has anchored himself in the computer forensics field.  He was specially trained in the University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In addition, he had attended various overseas training in computer forensics (such as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police - RCMP) and represented the Hong Kong Police to attend a number of overseas seminars on computer security and forensics.

He was one of the speakers in the Third Interpol Asia-South Pacific Working Party on Information Technology Crime in 2001. He was also invited to speak in the CIO & CEO Conference 2001 on ‘Building a corporate information protection strategy – a perspective by ISFS’.

At present, Collins is one of the Founding Members of the Information Security and Forensics Society (ISFS). Since year 2002, he has been elected as the Executive Director of the International Organization on Computer Evidence (IOCE).

Collins is interested not only in computer forensics, but also in computer hacking, computer/network security, incident response and intrusion detection.

Collins can be reached at collins_leung@police.gov.hk or tkleung@hkstar.com.