BACKGROUND
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1.
Un to the time of signature of the agreement (December 1984) the Hong Kong Government pursued a policy of deliberately recruiting a significant proportion of expatriates to
expatriates to the Inspectorate ranks of
the police force. It has now abandoned this policy but at
at present
about 60 percent of the
gazetted officer ranks are filled by
expatriates.
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2.
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It
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considered
that by
by 1997 the majority of gazetted
officers of the police force should be locals rather than
expatriates, say in the proportion of
of 60:40. By that time, there
should be a locally recruited Commissioner of Police and locally
recruited Deputy Commissioner. The Governor has asked a steering
group composed of the Secretary for the Civil Service, the Secretary
for Security and the Commissioner of Police to determine how this
should be achieved. This steering group has concluded that it will
probably be necessary to cease to renew the contracts of expatriate
officers on agreement and, if this proves insufficient, to create vacancies by compulsorily retiring (with compensation) s ome expatriate officers on permanent and pensionable terms.
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3.
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As far as advancement of local officers is concerned the
steering group is likely to recommend two channels. The first norma 1 promotion on merit and the second accelerated promotion of certain identified local officers to vacancies specifically created
for the purpose.
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4.
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been made
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associations,
But in
the Commissioner
a
phased policy
of increasing
This issue is a particularly sensitive one with the staff of the police force. No public statements
statement to the police
has told the
that associations
the ratio of local officers in the
have
staff
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senior management levels of the police is being considered although officers for many years.
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The four staff associations will be invited to comment as the work
proceeds.
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