is considering steps to improve the promotion prospects of local officers, e.g. enhanced in-service English language instruction.
Estimated cost: not known at this stage.
Pay, allowances and overtime
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The advisers have recommended that allowances paid to police officers should be reviewed, and that an examination should be carried out into the payment of additional duty allowance, the introduction of overtime, the length of pay scales for rank and file officers and the provision of annual leave for all officers of inspectorate rank and above. Some of these are complex matters, and have civil service- wide implications. It is therefore likely that consideration of them will take time.
Estimated cost: No decisions with significant financial implications will be made in the short term.
ICAC Procedures
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The advisers have expressed their general satisfaction with the procedures used by the ICAC, and with the provisions made for supervisory checks on compliance by ICAC staff with the law and with internal directives laid down by the Commissioner. Their examination of selected cases has revealed that in no instance did the ICAC carry out searches or arrests without evidence of reasonable suspicion, and that the methods of investigation and operational tactics used were generally in line with those adopted by special squads of major UK police forces. They accept that there has been an equable distribution of ICAC efforts, and that the Commission has not con- centrated on the RHKP to the detriment of other investigations.
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The advisers have proposed that, whenever it becomes apparent to the ICAC that wide-spread action may be necessary against the Police Force, or indeed any sector of Government, the Commissioner, ICAC, should submit a report to the Governor, and thereafter make periodic reports as the investigation develops. They have also recommended that the Attorney General should be kept informed so that from an early stage he may be able to consider the legal implications of the operations. Internally, the advisers have suggested that, in order to afford relief from the sustained pressures of this kind of work, consideration should be given to transferring, at intervals, staff employed continuously on corruption investigations to other departments of the ICAC. Action is being taken to implement these recommendations,
Estimated cost: Nil,
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