Conbent of their Chiefs of Police to join the Bong Kong
olice does not seea to add to the force of their representations since they transferred of their own volition and, in accordance with the Home Police' regulation, they were required to resign their Foae posts in order to do so.
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The writers' statement that the Government of Hong Kong has, by indiately employing then upon police auties, recognised their previous police service is not uite correct. The fact is that the cuties they were seployed on, on their arrival in Hong Kong, were those chich they had uncertsen to priorm under the contracts they signed in the United kin don.
In point (6) of their letter Mr. Saul and Ha. Brown refer to the po ition of members of the Palestine Police Force tho ave been absorbed into the letropolitin and other Police Forces,
They espeur to misunderstand the situation which is that the Palestine Police Officers who have been, or are to be, so absorbed into the Hom: Police Forces, have not had their previous survise 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 satay into the Metropolitan Police pay scale. It is I think pertinent to remark here that on this point there can be no comp:rison between the two crces, since the Palestine Police personnel concerned are redundant on account of the withdrawal from Palestine sa reus the writers voluntarily left their Hose police eppoinizents to taas up coloniel caployment.
Their apprehensions regaring the retiring age are not fully understood but they probably crize from the recommendation made by the r cent Hong Kong Salaries Commission that the Hong Kong Governa nt shou.: have the right, if necessary, to require an officer to retire at the age of 45 and that the officer should
ve the
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