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No:
CONFIDENTIAL.
Sir,
(2).
16
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG,
90:
Lóth October, 1946.
I have the honour to address you on the subject of
promotions in the gazetted ranks of the Police Force.
2.
The establishment approved in your telegram No. 632
of 2nd August, 1946, is:
Sex 54976/4
a file 5414614/4-
3.
1 Commissioner
2 Deputy Commissioners
22 Superintendents and Assistant Superintendents
2 Police Cadets.
The post of Commissioner is vacant and I have asked in
my telegram No. 909 of 27th August and subsequent telegrams for
early information regarding an appointment to this post.
4.
The two posts of Deputy Commissioner are vacant. Mr.
W. R. Scott, the previous Deputy Commissioner, was executed by
the Japanese in 1943. I now wish to recommend that Messrs. W.
la B. Sparrow and L.H.C. Calthrop be promoted Deputy Commissioners
to fill the vacancies caused by Mr. Scott's death and by the recent
creation of an additional post. They are the two most senior
Superintendents and are, I consider, in every way suitable for
promotion. Mr. Calthrop has recently returned to the Colony, and
Mr. Sparrow is still on leave in the United Kingdom. Mr. Sparrow's
promotion will of course be contingent on his return to duty.
5.
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To fill the twenty-four posts of Superintendents, Assistant
Superintendents and Cadets there are, excluding Messrs. Sparrow and
Calthrop, eleven commissioned officers who were serving in Hong Kong
prior to December, 1941, and five officers who have been appointed
since the end of the war, namely, Messrs. E. Tyrer, J. MacKenzie,
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
A. CREECH JONES, P.C., M.P.
RECEIVED 25 OCT 19
BAY
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