The Cultural Affairs Department strongly condemned this move. All it could do, however, was to set up some 20 closed-circuit TV cameras and hire security personnel to keep a 24-hour watch in the hope of preventing the remaining old buildings meeting a similar fate.
為此提出強烈譴責的文化局，只好在巷弄中裝設 20 多部監視器，並聘請保全人員 24 小時巡邏守衛，為的就是保護這些老屋不會再傳「劫」報。