Mr Barling
PA on distisbonam PA.
file.
ARG.
28.11.
RECEIVED IN ARCHIVES No.31 29 NOV 1968
HKILI
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Mr. Carter
Mr. C. H. Godden
Fil/B1/18
Hi kamyone fr.
I am now sending you a draft record of the whole of Lord Shepherd's discussions with Mr.Jackson- Lipkin, covering both interviews on 13 and 20 November.
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The first interview was entirely concerned with legal matters, and I do not believe that it will be necessary to take any action other than that which followed the Minister's previous meeting with Mr. de Basto, Chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association, during August. Such action as was
then necessary has been taken on File HWB 14/61 but there is nothing yet to report.
3. As Mr. Jackson-Lipkin was told on the 20 November, it will be very difficult to follow up his report that a Magistrate sentenced certain spectators at his court summarily for contempt until he, Mr. Jackson -Lipkin, provides us with full details, which he has undertaken to do. I understand that at the time of the disturbances there was a concerted Communist attempt to disrupt proceedings in a Magistrate's Court where the offenders had to be dealt with summarily by contempt procedure, but their misconduct amounted to a great deal more than merely failing to stand up. Mr. Jackson-Lipkin may well have picked up an incomplete or biased account of that or a similar occasion.
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Folice (Paras 8 and 9 of the record).
It has not been difficult to establish that there is no truth whatsoever in Mr. Jackson-Lipkin's allegation that the Crown Agents recruit British Police Officers without using at candidates' interviews the services of any Senior Hong Kong Police Officer who happene to be on leave at the time and available. According to Mr. Jackson- Lipkin this charge was made at the Police Training School, but in fact it transpires that Senior Superintendent P. T. Moor, Commandant Designate of the Police Training School is on leave at the moment and has been sitting at candidates' interviews with the Crown Agents. This apart other Police Officers on leave have attended previously and the Police Advisers, FCO, both with very considerable overseas police experience, attend regularly.
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Although I have not recorded it in the note of the meeting, Mr. Jackson-Lipkin also charged that vacancies in the Hong Kong force were not properly notified at this end, so that to his knowkige Metropolitan Police, who would have applied were unable to do so. Í have established that all such vacancies are advertised and that interested Officers from the Metropolitan Force may apply and have on occasions done so.
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