strengthening these branches, but it may well be that there is
still more to be done in improving their efficiency and in applying
the experience of metropolitan countries and the methods which
have been developed there. I also appreciate the need, which is being considered separately, for local military forces on an adequate scale for maintaining internal security as well as for expansion
in war, but even in present circumstances I attach great importance
to ensuring that civil police and security forces should be
entirely adequate to deal with any internal threat.
4. In making your report I shall be glad if you will indicate
any aspects of this problem in which you feel the need of advice,
whether by correspondence or through visits by appropriate
experts; and also any arrangements which may have been made for
co-operation with the police forces of neighbouring British.
territories in dealing with security problems affecting them
also.
I have the hcncur to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient, humble servant,
(gd) A. Creech Jones:
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