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to find local officers senior to them in rank.
27.
Miss Dunn referred to the particularly large number
of overseas officers who joined the service last year - the
total was 546, and wondered whether this arose partly because
staff requirements were not foreseen in advance.
of 546 was made up as follows:
This figure
(a) For the Police Force
209
(b)
Professional officers for the Public
Works and Housing Departments
226
(c)
Doctors and other professional
25
officers for the Medical & Health
Department
(a)
Professional officers for the Legal
27
group of departments
(e)
Mainly professional officers for 14
59
other departments
Total:
546
28.
In the case of the Police Force, as Miss Dunn
acknowledged, it has been established policy to recruit
regularly from overseas.
29.
:
In almost all other cases the need to recruit from
overseas was partly the consequence of an overall shortage
of people in Hong Kong holding particular qualifications
(for example surveyors), partly the consequence of
extremely high demand in the private sector (for example
architects), and partly because in some professions (for
example medical and legal) there is a marked preference for
private practice. I am not sure there is anything very
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