CO129-575-13 Salaries scales in Hong Kong Police Force 6-6-1939 - 18-8-1939 — Page 2

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Fro petition from sergeants and lave. sexgents

for revision

of salary scales.

The principal grievance of the European

Sergeants and Lance-Sergeants in the Hong Kong Police

Force is the long delay in promotion from Lance-

Sergeant to Sergeant, a grievance which the Governor.

considers to be well founded. The rate of promotion

has become progressively slower in recent years,

with the consequence of ever growing stagnation on

the maximum of the Lance-Sergeant grade, i.e. £240

(see paragraph 3 of the petition).

The present salary scales are as follows:

Lance Sergeants £190 x A10 - £240.

Sergeants

£260 x A20 £300 x A10 £350.

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It is obviously inadequate that a man

should be expected to remain on the salary scale of

£240 for anything between 5 or 10 years before he

has a reasonable chance of promotion.

What the

petitioners suggest in paragraph 10 of their petition

is that the rank of Police Sergeant should be

abolished and that the increments attached to the

attainment of that rank be added to the increments

of the rank of Lance-Sergeant.

The Governor

accordingly proposes to introduce a through scale

for the two ranks as follows:

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£190 x A10 £240 x 30 £270 x ALO £320 x A15 £350, with an efficiency bar after the ninth year, i.e. at the £290 level.

The effect of this new scale as compared

with the existing one is set out in tabular form in

enclosure 2 to the despatch, and the new scale is

clearly much more equitable.

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