CO129-612-2 Police Department- petition from European memebers of Inspectorate 29-1-1948 - 22-7-1949 — Page 111

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Hong Kong Police, does not seem to add

to the force of their representations

since they transferred of their own

volition and, in accordance with the

Home Police regulations, they were required

to resign their Home posts in order to do

So.

8. The writers' statement that the

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Government of Hong Kong has, by immediately

employing them upon police duties,

recognised their previous police service

is not quite correct. The fact is that

the duties they were employed on, on their

arrival in Hong Kong, were those which

they had undertaken to perform under

the contracts they signed in the United

Kingdom.

१. In point (6) of their letter Mr. Saul

and Mr. Brown refer to the position of

members of the Palestine Police Force

who have been absorbed into the

Metropolitan and other Police Forces.

They appear to misunderstand the situation

which is that the Palestine Police Officers

who have been, or are to be, so absorbed

into 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