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From the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
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Date...August,10.7.
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Employment of Indians in Colonial Police
Forces.
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Comptroller, Dev. & Welfare in West Indies No.?... EAGON No...
Kenya No..4. Uganda No. 18.
Tanganyika Terr.No.. Zanzibar No..7.. Nyasaland No.... Permission was recently sought of the Government of India for a representative of the Hong Kong Government to proceed to India for the purpose of (a) investigating the cases of Indian members of the Hong Kong police force at present on leave in India with a view to arranging for their return to duty in Hong Kong, or, where appropriate, for their retirement from the Hong Kong police force, and (b) the recruitment of further Indians for that Force, The reply of the Government of India was that they are posed to the employment of Indians as policemen in "foreign countries" and that they could not therefore agree to the visit of a representative of the Hong Kong Government for the purposes stated. On receipt of this reply the Government of India were asked for confirmation that their ban on the cmployment of Indians in such Forces referred only to the recruitment of fresh manbors, and did not prohibit the return of serving members: of the Hong Kong Police Force on leave in India who have expectations of further service, including the prospect of a pension. The Govern- ment of India's reply was that there is no ban on indians of classes other than unskilled labourers departing fran India to any place abroad, but that the Government of India did not wish to associate themselves in any way with the encourage.ont of the employment of Indians as policemen in countries outside India, and that they must. therefore refuse to be parties to a mergements for the early return to Hong Kong of former men bors bhu Hong Kong Police and could not agree to the despatch to India of officers of the Hong Kong Administration for the purpose of ozonining the return to Hong Kong of Indian members of the Colony's Police Force.
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In these circumstances the Hong Kong Government have made other arrangements for all Indian monters of their police force at present on leave in India to be asked to state whether they are willing to return to duty. Appropriate arrangements will be made for those who are willing, and whose continued employment is considered decirable, to return to Hong Kong for duty, and for the remainder to be discharged.
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I have brought these developments to your notice since, if the Governments of India and Pakistan when these new Dominions are estab- lished adopt the same attitude as the present Government of India's recruitment for the Police Force in the territory under your adminis-
tration may be affected. I would also tako this opportunity to observe that the arrangements regarding nationality in the event of the withdrawal from the Commonwealth of a part of India have yet to be determined. You will appreciate that the question of the retention in the Colonial Police Forces of Indians who becase the subjects of a foreign Power will, if the occasion arisou, require careful considera- tion.
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