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Mr Ricketts
Mr Grundy, Senior Police Adviser
POLICE ADVISERS: POSSIBLE VISIT TO HONG KONG
1. In your minute of 14 September you asked whether we would require any visits by police advisers during 1993.
At this stage, I think a requirement for a visit is unlikely, but we might need to ask you to go, depending on developments on issues relating to members of Her Majesty's Overseas Civil Service (HMOCs).
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As you may be aware, we are in the throws of consulting members of HMOCS in Hong Kong about what arrangements should be put in place to recognise the change of sovereignty in 1997. It seems likely that these discussions may become acrimonious, particularly with regard to the police force. Current indications that HMOCS members in the police force are more militant, possibly because they fear for their position more than other HMOCS officers in Hong Kong.
3. If it looks as if matters in the Police could be taking a turn for the worse, we might ask you to visit sometime in 1993. A number of issues could become intertwined in this:
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the state of moral in the force
the effectiveness of the force
- the pace of localisation
an independent view of the Force in the context of the HMOCS question.
4.
If we were to ask you to make such a visit, I should imagine it would be in the May to September time-frame.
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M V Stone
Hong Kong Department
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2 October 1992
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Mr David Fish, Overseas Pensions Dept, ODA
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