D
E
(b)
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Police Training etc to meet their new
expanded role;
(c)
Maritime security;
(d)
general defence and security policy.
5.
In
In HKD's view (which MOD share) it would not be reasonable (or appropriate) for the Committee to expect you to say much on any of these topics before you have formally taken over as Governor and settled in. addition, the Committee will not yet be aware of any of the details of the garrison withdrawal plan, the police expansion plan or (especially) our discussions with the Chinese on these issues. The Committee's briefing before
their late 1986 visit covered:
(a)
(b)
(c)
a general political brief on Hong Kong (including current security issues such as defence, illegal immigration and Vietnamese refugees (relevant extracts at Flag D).
a short note on the general outline of police expansion to absorb the current garrison's I.S. and border duties (copy at Flag E).
a more elaborate MOD brief on the garrison and its future, indicating that no decisions have been taken on the future size and shape of the garrison up to 1997, and recognising that these will be dependent in part upon the progress of police expansion plans: on the DCA, noting that HKG may be expected to take a harder line in the renegotiations this year; and on a wide range of miscellaneous issues such as defence sales, the
future of the Gurkhas, the future of local MOD employees, personal allowance rates for garrison personnel in Hong Kong, and the future of the British Military Hospital. (I do not however
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