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separate cadro as suggested by the Commissioner of Police, but consider that they should remain members of the General Clerical Service. Wireless operators should, in
our opinion, be seconded from the Telecommunications Branch of the Post Office.
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We consider that the recruitment and training of suitable local sub-inspectors of Police is of the greatest importance and while candidates may in future be obtained through promotion from the ranks it is probable that in the near future local sub-inspectors will in the majority of cases be appointed by recruitment from outside tho Force. We recommend that a School Leaving Certificate should be the minimum educational qualification and that candidates should be required to be of good physique and to have had a good games record. Entry should be by compotitive examination. As it is unlikely that overseas officers will in future be recruited as sub-inspectors without some previous police experience in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, wc consider that the potential value of a local recruit to the Sub-Inspectorate is likely to be considerably less than that of an overseas recruit for some yars. We therefore propose that there should be two grades for sub-inspectors, Local officers with no previous Police training or experience would enter as sub-inspectors, grade II, on a scale rising from $3000 per annum for the first two years by annual increments of $300 to $4200. Between sub-inspector, grade II and sub-inspector, grade I, we propose an efficiency bar, but we would not preclude officers who display exceptional promise and ability from rising to grade I bofore reaching the maximum of the grade II scale. Overseas recruits would normally commence as sub-inspectors, grade I, on $4800 per annum plus expatriation pay, provided that they had had previous Police experience. On reaching grade I local officers who had already served a two year probation on first appointment would proceed from $4800 per annum to $5100 per annum, whereas overseas officers entering the grade I scale direct would be required to serve a three year probation period on 4800 per annum before proceeding to $5100 per annum. During this period overseas sub- inspectors should be given Facilities for language study and confirmation to the permanent establishment should depend on their passing the first two examinations in Cantonese and satisfying the Commissioner of Police that they have a knowledge of law adequate for their work. The scale proceeds from 4800 per annum by annual
increments of $300 to $7200 per annum and thence by annual increments of $480 to 09600 per annum. Efficiency bars operate at $7200 per annum and 39600 per annum. The second efficiency bar must be passed before an officer rises to the rank or inspector. A promotion bar operates between $11520 per annum, the maximum salary of an inspector, and 812960 per annum, the minimum of the scele for chief inspectors.
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Until local officers have had sufficient ex- perience in the Inspectorate to prove their suitability for promotion to gazetted rank, it is probable that the majority of recruits for the gazetted ranks will be dram from overseas officers either recruited direct. or promoted from the Inspectorate. As promising local candidates become available, we recommend that they should be appointed on a salary of $4200 for a year on trial and that, if satisfactory, they should then be sent to the United Kingdom for a year's course at the Police Training College at Hendon, or any similar training institution, followed by a year's attachment to a United Kingdom Police Force. After the satisfactory completion of this training, they would enter the scale
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