CO129-612-2 Police Department- petition from European memebers of Inspectorate 29-1-1948 - 22-7-1949 — Page 122

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Note of some points made by Inspector Shepherd, Hong Kong Police, at a meeting with Lord Listowel at 12.30 p.m. on 22nd March, 1948.

Inspector Shepherd's main grievance appeared to be that

a petition submitted by him on behalf of all the European

Inspectors of Police with pre-war service had not been dealt

with properly in that it had not been forwarded to the

Secretary of State.

The circumstances of the case were reported by

Inspector Shepherd to be as follows:-

(i) In late 1946 those European Inspectors who had served

in the Force before the war and who had returned to duty in

Hong Kong received a memorandum setting out revised conditions

of service.

(ii) A meeting was held with Inspector Shepherd in the

Chair and it was decided to reject the memorandum. A letter

was accordingly written with this in view, taking up, in

particular, (a) the question of the point of entry into the

new grades, and asking for it to be assessed on the basis of

the number of years service of each man, and (b) Pensions.

(iii) After a considerable amount of correspondence the

Inspectors decided that they were getting nowhere and on

(? 29th January?) 1947 they wrote asking that the memorandum

should be treated as a petition and forwarded to the

Secretary of State.

(iv) On 20th March 1947 Inspector Shepherd was informed

that the petition had been forwarded to the Secretary of

State.

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