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Dear Nicholls,
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I am sorry that, owing to pressure of other work, we have not replied before to your letters of 20th January and 25th February about some members of the Hong Kong police force who were recruited from county and borough police forces in this country.
I am afraid that we cannot see our way to inviting the former police authorities of these men at this stage to agree to substitute a secondment for the arrangement which was made at the time when they joined the Hong Kong police force. We do not see that the men concerned can have any justifiable grievance since it was made quite clear at the time when they applied to join the Hong Kong police force that the conditions of service involved their resignation from their former police forces. We think that it would be stretching things too much to try to pretend now that the men did not retire at all and should be regarded as seconded from the outset, and if we were prepared to approach police authorities in the matter we feel that we should have very little chance of securing their agreement.
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In a letter which has been sent to Fairclough by Coleman of the Metropolitan Police Office on 28th May about the position of ex- e Constable Ainsworth and other officers who have resigned from the
Metropolitan Police, it was stated that the position might be altered by the new Police Pensions Regulations, 1948. We did at one time think of extending the "approved employment" arrangements to police forces by means of a Regulation under the Police Pensions Act, 1948, but in the end we found that it was not practicable to
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19 JUL 1948
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W. S. Nicholls, Esq.
Colonial Office,
2, Park Street,
Mayfair, W.1.
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