CO129-612-1 Police Department- petition from European memebers of Inspectorate 21-1-1947 - 17-2-1948 — Page 101

that in a letter/

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from the Secretary of State, dated 26th. February 1946 selected experienced Civil Officers were asked to return to the Colony to assist in the "taking over process", but when application was made to the Secretary of State on a specific matter, in the reply received, left no doubt in the mind that the "asking" was

tantamount to an order.

Now it seems that those self same selected

experienced Officers have deteriorated during the past nine months, so much so, that it is now necessary to warn them of the factors

involved.

8.(a)

9.

However, the paragrph on the whole can be most readily summed up by saying "to make the Police Force successful it will be achieved by making the "experienced Officers" train those locally recruited and do double work while teaching the experienced officers

recruited from other forces".

No signs are evident of retrenchment amongst the newly recruited officers who are still totally inexperienced in local conditions, an experience which will only be gained by many years of service. It would appear certain that the system under

which these Officers were recruited became a failure by the reappearance of the Pre-War Officers from internment, but having been planned it was put into effect irrespective of cost and to the

detriment of the Pre-War Officers.

This certainly opposes the economic system which

brought about the reorganisation plans of pre and post war.

There are many issues arising out of this

Memorandum but the two most important are :-

1.

SALARY.

The scale laid down in the Memorandum when

suddenly thrust upon one, with the minimum of time to accept, appeal

to be an improvement, but, when analysed it has been noted that no

will receive any increase other than that which would have been

expected had times remained normal.

At present there is little or no incentive for

all to..