Service, and his pensionable service in the Metropolitan Police Force will be preserved."
Therefore in the case of the Metropolitan Police Officers and we were all engaged under identical agreements there is a definite state- ment that they will be made a revised offer and go straight on to the pension- able establishment of the Hong Kong Police and that their pension rights will be preserved, (obviously by allowing continuity of service.) These Officers have always understood that they had merely transferred to the Hong Kong Police Force from the Metropolitan Police and that all their previous service, rank and pension rights wore fully preserved.
21.
As regards the sc Officers, recent amendments to their contracts have provided a certain degree of security. We ask that all the Officers be afforded that same security.
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23.
Colonial Office letter of 23.12.46 states :
....steps were being taken to safeguard the pension rights of ex-members of the Metro- politan Police Force. I am now in a position to state that in all cases where Metropolitan policemen were recruited from the United Kingdom for service 'on contract' with the Hong Hong Governmont, it has been agreed by the Governor after consultation with the Home Office, that such Officers shall be regarded as having been temporarily transferred from their home service to the Colonial Service, thereby preserving their Home pension rights and continuity of service. In the case of County Police, who are not in the same category as regards pensions, the Governor has agreed that such officers may be regarded as seconded and that the Hong Kong Government will pay the requisite pension contributions to the parent body.
Though this letter, and a further communication from the Hong Kong Government gave us all security either by a recognised transfer or second- ment, a subsequent letter from the Commissioner of Police, Hong Kong, dated 16,8.47 withdrew this security from all but the ex-members of the Metropolitan Police Force. Metropolitan Police Officers have always enjoyed some kind of socurity in their present transfer to duty in Hong Kong.
24.
We all transferred here from United Kingdom Police Forces under identical agreements to do the same job and should obviously enjoy identical conditions.
25.
The fact that our previous service over the age of 26 is allowed for purposes of pay establishes that our previous service is recognised, and all of that service should count here for all purposes for pay, promotion, pension and seniority.
26.
May a statement issue informing us
(a) The policy of the Colonial Office with regard to our
present service and prospects of promotion in the Colonial Service?
(b) Exactly how the question of transfer or secondment would
affect us with particular reference to whether our prev- ious service and rank count here as it would at Home in the case of a similar transfer under Police Regulations, with the consent of the Chief Officer of the parent Force? (c) Under what conditions might we be transferred or seconded to the Hong Kong Government or the Colonial Service? (a) Can we return to our parent body at any time without the
present contract penalties being enforced?
(c) Could our parent body enforce our return at any time, with
or without our consent?
/ (f) Have the
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