The Transport, Security and Central Services Division provides maintenance services to Government's transport and security related departments on air-conditioning, electrical and mechanical installations, and to all government departments on electronics, central services and indoor air quality measurement. Key departmental customers are Transport, Highways, Police, Fire Services, Correctional Services, Customs and Excise, Immigration and the ICAC. The division also provides advisory services and monitors contractors involved in the Tsing Ma Control Area, as well as government's road tunnels operation and maintenance.

The division was formed in October 1997 as a result of the reorganisation and regionalisation exercise. The current organsational set-up enables the division to better communicate with its clients and improve the utilisation of its internal resources. One of its major achievements during 1997/98 was the gradual taking over of 130 Area Traffic Control (ATC) traffic junctions in the Kowloon and New Territories regions for in-house maintenance. The division has also won, through competitive tender, a contract for the maintenance of scoreboards and timing equipment at eight Provisional Urban Council swimming pools.

New business opportunities for this division follow closely those being handled by the Projects Division. Some examples of current projects which would become maintenance work for this division include: highways surveillance systems, video presentation systems for the Education Department, digital library system for the new Hong Kong Central Library, and X-ray cargo checkers at the Lok Ma Chau border control point.

The electronics maintenance and operation services, as well as the Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) team within the division, obtained ISO 9002 certificates in April 1998. The IAQ team has been active in providing close monitoring of indoor air quality on government premises, including those open to the public such as public transport terminals. A total of 635 sites were surveyed on air quality last year and improvements, such as air duct modification work, were made to 14 of these sites.

The division also provides stand-by services in the operation of the unique life-saving decompression chamber on Stonecutter's Island, attending to more than 10 decompression illness and medical cases last year.

In the coming fiscal year, the division will take up maintenance of more ATC traffic junctions in Kowloon and the Fire Services trunk radio system, as well as the maintenance of E&M systems and equipment for 33 government piers franchised to private operators by the Transport Department.