CO129-612-2 Police Department- petition from European memebers of Inspectorate 29-1-1948 - 22-7-1949 — Page 103

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required to resign his Home post in order to

do so.

7. Mr. Winch's statement that the Government

of Hong Kong has by immediately employing him

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upon police duties, recognised his previous police

service is not quite correct. The fact is that

the duties he was employed on, on his arrival

in Hong Kong, were those which he had undertaken

to perform under the contract he signed in the

United Kingdom.

8. In point (6) of his letter Mr. Winch refers

to the position of members of the Palestine

Police Force who have been absorbed into the

Metropolitan and other Police Forces. He appears

to misunderstand the situation, which is that the

Palestine Police officers who have been, or are to

be, so absorbed in the Home Police Forces have not

had their previous service taken into account for

purposes of rank or pension. All that has been done

is to take their previous service into account for

purposes of determining the point of entry into

the Metropolitan Police pay scale. It is, I think,

pertinent to remark here that on this point there

can be no comparison between the two cases, since

the Palestine Police personnel concerned are

redundant on account of the withdrawal from

Palestine, whereas the writer voluntarily left his

Home police appointment to take up Colonial

employment.

q His apprehensions regarding the retiring

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age are not fully understood but they probably arise

from