CO129-612-2 Police Department- petition from European memebers of Inspectorate 29-1-1948 - 22-7-1949 — Page 38

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(a) The claim for increased expatriation pay

is supported only by an argument based on a misconception of the principles governing the grant of such pay and is rejected by the Governor in his comments on paragraph 13 of the petition on page 3 of the covering despatch. I see no other support for this particular representation and I think we should reply in the terms suggested by the Governor.

(e)

there are really several separate points

wrapped up in this innocent sentence and they relate mainly to offices recruited from United Kingdom Police Forces since 1945.

(i)

So far as pay is concerned, the extent

to which previous police service in the United Kingdom should count has already been exhaustively considered both in connection with the petition at (39) on the 1947 file and in connection with representations to M.P.s (see (13) (14) and (15)). point is I think raised again by the petitioners just for good measure. The answer suggested in paragraph 4(v) is I think suitable.

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(ii) The apprehension which the petitioners apparently feel, that those recruited since 1945 will on conversion to the revised scales lose all police service in the Colony prior to 1.1.47, is of course unfounded. Those who opt for the new terms are, it is true, regarded as accepting in lieu of their present terms, appointment on probation to the permanent establishment with effect from 1.1.47, their period of probation to date from their first arrival in the Colony. But as explained in paragraph 15 of the Establishment Officer's circular letter (enclosure 3 to the despatch),

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revised salaries will be based on their old salaries, in which service in the Colony prior to 1.1.47 is of course reflected. Moreover, as pointed out at X on page 5 of the Governor's despatch, if confirmed to the permanent estab- lishment, their service will be pensionable from the date of first appointment to the Colony, not merely from 1.1.47. I think an assurance on these points might be included in the reply to the petition.

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There remains the petitioners claim that all their previous approved police service in the United Kingdom should be counted in calculating the pension to

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