Enclosure 1.
COPY.
To The Right Honourable
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The Secretary of State for the Colonies. REG || NOV 15)
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Te, the European Inspectors, Sergeants, and Con-
-stables of the Hongkong Police Force, respectfully beg to submit
a copy attached here with of a memorandum addressed by His Excellenc;
the Governor to us relative to a petition which we sent in recent- -ly asking for an increase of salary, and better pension conditions, and in doing so we beg most respectfully to draw your attention to
the following facts which we hope will convince you that our petition was submitted to you in an unfavourable manner by His
Excellency the Governor and in the hope that when you are made
aware of the full facts we may still hope for a more satisfactory
reply.
Regarding B, C, D, E, F, and G of Memorandum we
have nothing to say as we accept what His Excellency says in the
matter.
As regards (a) salaries and pensions
Firstly.
.....We would point out that His Excellency
the Governor, in order to gain his point in refusing us a rise of pay, has classified our Chief Inspector on a level with a Sub-
-disional Inspector in London. In London tuere are 30 Unief
Inspectors in a force of 47,000. In Hongkong there is one Chief Inspector in a force of 1,100 men. At the time we joined the Hongkong Police, our Chief Inspector meld the rank of Acting Deputy Superintendent, Hongkong, and it is on record that a Hong- -kong Police Chief Inspector has held and draw the pension of
that rank vide Blue Book 144 of the 13th. June, 1u95. We Inspectors feel keenly being thus humiliated and barred by His Excellency from
obtaining a rank equivalent to Chief Inspector and Superintendent,
in the uniform branch, and 1st. class Inspector, and Chief
Inspectar in the Criminal Investigation Department, of the
Letropolitan Police. In the Metropolitan Police the men who hold