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TO IMMEDIATE MALTA TELNO 1 OF 26TH SEPTEMBER, 1973. INFO PRIORITY F.C.O.
GRATEFUL IF YOU WOULD PASS THE FOLLOWING TO PRENDERGAST FROM MACLEHOSE.
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL WAS NOW APPROVED THE SETTING UP OF A NEW ANTI- CORRUPTION COMMISSION UNDER AN EMINENT CIVILIAN COMMISSIONNER (NAME NOT YET DECIDED),
2. THERE WILL BE A LARGE OPERATIONS UNIT WHICH WILL TAKE OVER THE FUNCTIONS AND INITIALLY THE BULK OF THE PERSONNEL (OM SECONDNEIT OF THE PRESENT ANTI-CORRUPTION BRANCH OF THE POLICE.
3. THE DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS WILL BE NO. 2 IN THE COMMISSION. I TOLD EX.CO. THAT I PROPOSED TO APPOINT YOU TO THIS POST AND THIS WAS ACCEPTED (VERY GLADLY BY THOSE WHO KNEW YOU),
A FIRM OFFER WILL NOT BE THEORETICALLY POSSIBLE TILL
FINANCIAL APPROVAL IS OBTAINED FROM FINANCE COMMITTEE WHICH WILL NOT BE FOR A WEEK OR TWO, BUT IS A POREGONE CONCLUSION, I WILL RECOMMEND A SALARY FOR THE DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS OF HK DOLLARS 12,063
A MONTH. FOR PUPPOSES OF COMPARISON THIS IS HK DOLLARS 500 MORE THAN A DEPARTMENTAL HEAD OR THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF POLICE,
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YOU WOULD RE EMPLOYED ON CONTRACT, OR EXPATRIATE TERMS, FOR 3 YEARS, WITH 45 WAYS ANNUAL LEAVE EACH CALENDER YEAR. THERE WOULD ALSO DE A GRATUITY OF 25 PER CENT OF GROSS SALARY.
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