CO129-611-6 Police Department- gazetted officers 24-12-1945 - 10-2-1948 — Page 22

We should however also keep in mind the

position of the gazetted officers of the Ceylon

Police Force. Mr. Thomas minuted recently on this

and said that if transfers were not arranged soon

we might lose some very good officers of the Ceylon

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Police Force as there was a danger of them thin resigning retiring under the new Constitution waudh herbals seeking & Wief & mustaths Posts in the country, There are many Police officers in the

West Indian territories who would like transfers,

mainly owing to the lower salaries generally

prevailing there, and we try to consider them when-

ever possible (information has been received of

the resignation of two Police Officers in the

West Indies since the list opposite was prepared),

but we have arranged a number of transfers from

the West Indies in the last year or two and some

are at present under consideration for Police

posts in Sarawak.

In the circumstances I would suggest that

subject to observations of Middle East Department, Ceylon Pacific and Far Eastern Departments, that

we provisionally allocate one vacancy to be filled

by transfer from Palestine and one from Ceylon.

As regards Palestine I suggest we ask the High

Commissioner (referring to his latest telegrams)

whether he could recommend and release one officer

of gazetted rank under 30 for transfer to Hong Kong

as Assistant Superintendent of Police. Regarding

Ceylon, Mr. Davies is noted for transfer and

diss although his last report is not too good, previous

reports shows that he was able to carry on satis-

factorily for six months in a post normally filled

by a senior Superintendent.

I suggest that we

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