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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1985
SUCH ACTING APPOINTMENTS ARE MADE ON THE GROUNDS THAT SOME TEMPORARY OR SUPERNUMERARY POSTS CAN ONLY BE FILLED ON A TEMPORARY ACTING BASIS WHEN A SUBSTANTIVE OFFICE HOLDER IS ABSENT ON LEAVE, TRAINING OR IS ON TRIAL IN ANOTHER RANK, ANOTHER OFFICER WILL BE SELECTED TO ACT IN HIS POST AND WHEN VACANCIES ARISE AFTER THE ANNUAL PROMOTION EXERCISE, THEY WILL ALSO BE FILLED BY CANDIDATES IDENTIFIED TO POSSESS POTENTIAL FOR ADVANCEMENT.
TURNING TO THE QUESTION OF TRANSFER OF STAFF BETWEEN THE URBAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT (URBAN) AND THE NEW TERRITORIES SERVICES DEPARTMENT, DR CHAM EXPLAINED THAT CAREER DEVELOPMENT POSTINGS ARE AN INTEGRAL PART OF GRADE MANAGEMENT AND ARE AIMED AT IMPROVING INDIVIDUAL OFFICER'S ALL-ROUND ABILITIES, RAISING AND MAINTAINING STANDARDS IN THE GRADE, AND GROOMING FUTURE MANAGERS.
+CAREER POSTINGS INVOLVE TRANSFERS WITHIN THE SUB-DEPARTMENTS AND BETWEEN THEM, BUT ARE USUALLY ARRANGED ON THE BASIS OF INTERCHANGING STAFF, HE SAID.
+THUS OVERALL THESE CROSS-TRANSFERS BALANCE OUT AND THIS IS CONFIRMED BY THE STATISTICS FOR THE PERIOD JANUARY TO DECEMBER 1984, WHEN 139 STAFF WERE TRANSFERRED TO NTSD AND 138 STAFF WERE POSTED FROM NTSD TO THE URBAN AREA.+
HE SAID THESE FIGURES RELATE TO ALL MANAGEMENT SUPERVISORY RANKS AND IF MINOR STAFF ARE INCLUDED, THE NUMBER OF STAFF TRANSFERRED FROM USD (URBAN) TO NTSD IN 1984 TOTALLED 154 WHILE THAT FROM NTSD TO USD (URBAN) WAS 152.
POLICE VIEWS ON SPEAKER'S CORNERS SOUGHT
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THE PROPOSAL BY MR WALTER SULKE TO SET UP SPEAKERS' CORNERS SIMILAR TO THE ONE IN LONDON'S HYDE PARK WHERE ANYONE CAN MAKE A POLITICAL SPEECH SHOULD BE REFERRED TO THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE FOR HIS COMMENTS BEFORE IT IS TO BE CONSIDERED BY THE RECREATION SELECT COMMITTEE.
THIS COUNTER-PROPOSAL WAS MADE BY THE CHAIRMAN OF THAT COMMITTEE, MR KENNETH LO, AT THE URBAN COUNCIL MEETING TODAY.
MR LO SAID + CAN POINT OUT THAT MEETINGS OF THE NATURE THAT MIGHT BE GENERATED BY SUCH AN ARRANGEMENT MAY WELL BECOME MEETINGS AS DEFINED IN THE PUBLIC ORDER ORDINANCE.
/+SUCH MEETINGS