department or the organization, but the integrity, thoroughness and industry of the men and women themselves. They cannot be given detailed guidance beyond a certain point and the achievement of the Government's aims in starting this scheme depends to a very large extent on the initiative and imagination of the staff in the City District Offices. The passage of time will not alter this for this scheme will never run by itself. If its momen- tum is not positively and forcefully maintained it will cease to have any impact.
116. C.D.O.s will be mostly Administrative Officers or Senior Admin- istrative Officers, and the Liaison Officers will be mostly Executive Officers. Both grades are liable to posting between a number of depart- ments and I should set down the criteria I believe should be in mind when officers are posted to this department. The posts require a breadth of contact with the public, departments and the press that is not to be found in any other posting. The C.D.O. scheme is a forcing house of experience and not all officers are capable of responding to this pressure. Those who can do so will emerge at the end of this period of duty very con- siderably strengthened for any other posting. I can take some newly appointed officers in the Liaison Officer posts and have accepted two newly appointed, though not inexperienced, Administrative Officers as C.D.O.s but the majority of the posts cannot be regarded as training posts. They are rather posts suitable for officers of some experience, who have shown a potential capacity to rise rapidly in the service, and who can make the most of a period of exposure to intense public and government pressures.
117. The interests of prosecuting the Government's aims in establish- ing the scheme and considerations related to the management of two important grades in the public service combine to make the question of the selection of officers for this work important. I am conscious that this view is shared by those responsible for posting but the question is so significant a factor in determining the success of this undertaking that I think it well worthwhile to restate it here.
118. I must deal also with the directorate of the scheme, which consists of one Deputy Secretary at the centre and one junior super-scale officer on each side of the harbour, for this is a vital part of the organization. I shall have misled the reader if I have given the impression of ten relatively junior district officers, chosen for their energy, imagination and promise, ridden upon a very light rein and left free to pursue our general objectives
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