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POSSIBLE ABSORPTION OF HMOCS OFFICERS INTO HM DIPLOMATIC SERVICE
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Thank you for your minute of 3 April. Mr Hewitt will be replying to you separately about the point of principle. As I recall, we agreed that we would consider taking the residual serving HMOCS officers on to our books in exchange for acquiring the right to control posts in the Dependent Territories, which are currently funded by the Territories concerned. We would thus be gaining the funds with the bodies. It seems to me that we need to tie up the package of principle before we consider the fate of the individuals. It remains to be resolved, for example, whether HMOCS officers whom we take on should have a retirement date of 55 (the HMOCS practice) or 60 (the DS practice).
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Having reserved my position on the point of principle, I am prepared to comment on the two officers specifically mentioned in your second paragraph. Mr Brooks seems a useful officer who could fill a number of posts in Dependent Territories and for whom one could see some sort of career ahead. I think we could undertake to use him for several months helping to man the pumps at any point of pressure on the Dependent Territory side of the Office, until he is able to take up his scheduled posting in 1982 (probably in the TCI). Mr Gillett
a somewhat different proposition. He is younger and much less good So far as we can tell. I think we would need to have a reasonably favourable report from Mr Massingham before we could envisage taking him on, since by doing so we would be guaranteeing in effect a long term career for him.
It would be a mistake to do that if he is not competent to hold down a series of jobs against the competition.
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8 April 1981
CC: Mr Hewitt, PPD
Mr Patterson, POD
COPIED TO IN. Benneti PPD
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