CONFIDENTIAL
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SCA Component
1 Administrative Officer
1 Liaison Officer Class One
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Police Component
1 Inspector
Ancillary Staff
No change.
This plan involves an increase of one Senior Administrative Officer, one Principal Information Officer offset by the loss of one Senior Information Officer, one Assistant Information Officer Class One, one Assistant Programme Organiser and one Liaison Officer Class Two.
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As set out the plan reflects the original structure, showing which department supplied the various people in the first place. But if it is accepted that for as far ahead as one can see there will be a requirement for an information unit working on the lines developed by the SPU then its staff should belong to it and not be left hanging somewhere in between, which is bad for them and bad for their work. Even the most dedicated officers, who see the value of the work they are doing, must be slightly concerned about the effect on their careers of posting to an indeterminate organisation with no recognised establishment and no future. Moreover these officers find it difficult to establish their position with, for example, other Government officers in the course of their work when they are unable to explain precisely who or what they represent.
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The reorganisation and redeployment of information services proposed in Part II will make it much easier to fit the Special Publicity Unit into the pattern and in turn to fit the staff into the Unit. For Administrative Officers their posting would be just the same as going to another branch of the Secretariat (and in the case of the Administrative Officers they should be appointed to designated posts). The Information Officers would of course be working as such in the central information apparatus. This leaves only the two Radio Hong Kong officers and the SCA liaison officer. In the latter case there seems to be no harm in making his a
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