CO129-612-1 Police Department- petition from European memebers of Inspectorate 21-1-1947 - 17-2-1948 — Page 29

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Shaelmo include Barngh Forces

att Jenking (now Falklands lo

their parent force they would have received such

superannuation benefits by way of refund of

contributions for which they were eligible, and must

utions for

by that very fact have been aware that they had

burnt their boats.

The Governor recommends that the Home

Office be approached again with the request that the

In

! County Police Forces from which these officers came

should be asked to regard their officers as seconded

for a period of three or five years, with Hong Kong

paying the requisite pension contributions.

addition, the petitioners ask that should they return

to their parent body they be re-instated at the

appropriate point in the original salary scale and

not lose seniority or promotion by reason of their

"secondment".

This suggestion can be followed but it

is indeed very doubtful whether the respective

authorities will agree, having regard to our failure

to persuade the Cardigan County Police to do so in

a recent similar case, and to the categorical

requirement that resignation was required before the

officer was released for employment in Hong Kong.

Furthermore the question of no loss of seniority

or promotion will be a stiff hurdle to overcome

having regard to the other serving members of the

County forces.

The Home Office will no doubt decide on

this point but the first step is to make absolutely

certain that we have the names of all the policemen

concerned. The first action therefore on point 1

of the petition would appear to be as in attached

draft herewith for consideration.

Point 2. In dealing with the expectations

of the petitioners to an improvement in rank in

the