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No. RC 216/77/09DRAFT SAVING DESPATCH
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....In Confidence
To:-
The Governor
HONG KONG
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From
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
Your saving despatch No Staff 89
RECRUITMENT OF INSPECTORS OF POLICE
1. We see no objection to the line of action
proposed in your paragraph 2 so far as recruitment
in South Africa is concerned. We think it
important that the Hong Kong Government, when
advertising in South Africa, should stipulate the
possession of a UK passport as a qualification
for appointment.
2. As regards recruitment in Southern Rhodesia
there would of course be the problem of allegiance.
It would be undesirable to accept into the service
of the Crown a Rhodesian Police Officer who had
presumably been serving a regime in rebellion
against the Crown. Our Embassy in Pretoria,
to whom a copy of your saving despatch No 89 was
sent, have commented as follows -
"For political reasons the Hong Kong
Government would presumably have to employ
a South African agent and have those
Rhodesians who answered their advertisement
interviewed in South Africa.
The recruits
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