CO129-612-2 Police Department- petition from European memebers of Inspectorate 29-1-1948 - 22-7-1949 — Page 50

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or to remain on salary and conditions of service which admittedly

require radical revision; otherwise no arrears of salary can be

authorized. That a number of Police Officers were in such urgent

need of funds to meet their obligations that they had no alterna-

tive but to sign Fori

C.

4. That Your Petitioners fully support the opening sentence

of paragraph 89 of the Salaries Report namely; -

"A well organised, adequately paid and contented Police

Force is a pre-requisite to law and order and to good

administration "

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5. That the Salaries Report is a long document full of

detail and with deference

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is not easily understood by the

average Government Servant ; furthermore many recommendations

are made which involve drastic changes in the allowances and

perquisites which Police Officers enjoyed in the past and which

it is submitted are not adequately compensated in the new scale

and conditions •

6. That Your Petitioners submit that no adequate compensa-

tion has been made for the stoppage of

(a) Free furnished quarters

(b)

Free fuel and light

(c)

Cruising launch allowance

(a) Hard lying allowance for certain officers in

the New Territories

7. That a Comparative Table of monthly salaries and usual

allowances calculated in dollars for 1941, 1946 and 1948 includ-

ing, Maximum Ex-Patriation and High Cost of Living Allowances

(but excluding Further Language and Hardlying Allowances as these

were not drawn by all officers) is attached here to marked

"Schedule A 12 That the proposed new scales shows the following

increases and percentages over the 1941 scale.

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