CO129-612-1 Police Department- petition from European memebers of Inspectorate 21-1-1947 - 17-2-1948 — Page 23

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54.217/9/47.

Colonial office,

2, Park Street,

s.1.

20 January, 1948.

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Dear Mr. Stokesbury,

!

ould you please refer to recent

correspondence ending with Miss need's letter to

rs. Hart of the 8th July last, (your reference 676652/55) rugarding the position of certain personnel of the Hong Kong Police Force who were recruited from Police Porecs in this country?

2.

The Secretary of State has under consideration a petition cubṛitted to his on behalf of those officers, and, amongst other matters, the question of their pelisionability is again raised. I think that you will find that we clearod up the position of the Metropolitan Police officers satisfactorily, but the present point concerns those men who belonged to County or Borough Police Forces and who resigned their jobs to take up the Hong Kong appointments.

3.

Commenting on this part of the petition the Governor has recommended that the Home Office should be approached with the request that the County and Borough Tolles Porces from which the officers came should be asked to regard their officers as seconded to Hong Kong for a period of three to five years, with the long Long Government paying the requisite pension contributions in respect of the period of their service in Hong Kong on the assumption that such contributions would be refunded in the event of the officer concerned being placed on the long long pensionable establishment. The petitioning officers

STOKES BURY, 291.

say