Hongkongers have filed more than 5,000 reports of traffic violations to police using a new social media channel in the first six weeks of its trial launch. The submissions were all made using “Project PROVE”, the police’s reporting tool on the Chinese social media platform WeChat. “We think there is some amount of effectiveness and I believe that a lot of people are actively using this platform,” said Superintendent Wong Ping-ping of the police’s traffic branch headquarters, who spoke ahead of the effort’s full launch on Monday. The reporting tool, which began its trial run in April and can be…