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Mr Mansfield
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HRK Osili Ņuppor
RECLITO
2° JUN 1978
UNFTRONRIAL
INDEX
No
TRAINING FOR ZAMBIAN POLICE
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1. Mr Allinson recently asked us to consider the possibility of sending an SAS team to Zambia to undertake training of the
Ministers accepted paramilitary wing of the Zambian Police.
our recommendation that it would be politically awkward to
We therefore asked the involve the SAS in Africa in this way. Hong Kong Government on 12 June whether they would be prepared to accept a small team from the Zambian police for military training in Hong Kong.
2.
Hong Kong have now told us that they consider the presence of Zambian police in the colony would create undesir- able publicity. Lusaka have also told us that the Zambians would prefer the training to take place in Zambia, and Mr Allinson has asked us to re-consider the possibility of sending an SAS team there. Mr Rowlands has seen this telegram, and has commented that we need to do something positive to help the Zambians quickly.
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I think the arguments in my submission of 2 June still
stand;
we know that the SAS cannot take on this commitment in the next few months and, even if they could, their presence in Iusaka at this sensitive time could cause both domestic and international complications. Mr Macoun however, has suggested that we might go back to Hong Kong, asking them to send a small team of experts to Lusaka to run a training course there. This seems a sensible alternative, and has the merit of over- coming both Hong Kong and the Zambians' problems while still providing the Zambian police with effective training. therefore submit a draft telegram to Hong Kong.
and Mr Macoun concur.
huusikuid
HMS Reid
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HK and G.Dept.
Central & Southern
African Department
23 June 1978
c.c. HK & G Dent.
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