Secretariat
File No: 9/1682/47
SECRET
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG.
No: 20
54144/2/47
6th
June, 1947.
45
68
(67).
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Sir,
With reference to your secret telegram No. 767 of
13th May, 1947, on the subject of the Indian Police Contingent, I
have the honour to inform you that while the attitude of the Govern-
ment of India precludes any programme of new recruitment into this
contingent, it is considered necessary to take steps to arrange for
the early return to duty of about three hundred Indian police subject
in each case to the individual's willingness to return and to the
passing of a medical examination.
2.
Telegraphic instructions have therefore been sent
to Mr. Ujagar Singh, an officer of this Government, who is at present
attached to the Punjab Civil Secretariat, Lahore, for the purpose
of paying leave salaries to Indian officers of the Hong Kong Police
Force and Prisons Department, to write by registered mail to all the
police officers concerned asking them whether they are willing to
return to duty. Those who have exhausted the leave granted to them
and do not signify their willingness to return within a reasonable
period after notification will be regarded as being absent from
duty without leave and will be dismissed.
Those over 45 will be
permitted to retire on pension if they so desire. The names of
those wishing to return will be forwarded to the Commissioner of
Police who will select approximately 300 for retention subject to
their passing a medical examination. Any surplus not disposed of
by dismissal, resignation, retirement due to age and invaliding will
be retired on abolition of office. The selection will be made irres-
pective of religion.
3.
It is hoped that these measures will enable the
Commissioner of Police to tide over the next few years during which
RECEIVED
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
A. CREECH JONES, P.C., M.P.
17 JUN 1947
C. O. REGY