- Folice does not seem to add to the force of his
representations, since he transferred of his own volition and, in accordance with the Home Police Ngulations, he was required to resign his flome post
in order to do so.
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Mr. Tinch's statement that the Government of Hong Kong has, by immediately employing him upon police duties, recognised his previous police service is not quite correct. The fact is that the duties he was. employed on, on his arrival in Hong Kong, were those which he had undertaken to perform under the contrect he signed in the United Kingdom.
In point (6) of his letter Mr. Binch refers to the position of acabers of the Palestine Police Force who have been absorbed into the Metropoliten and other Police Forces. He appears to misunderstand the situation, which is that the Palestine Police Officers who have been, or are to be, so absorbed in the Hone Police Forces have not had their previous service taken into account for urposes 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 Police pay scale. It is, I think, pertinent to remark here that on this point there can be no comparison between the tro cases, since the Palestine Police personnel concerned are redundant on account of the withdrawal from Palestins, whereas the writer voluntarily left his Hone police appointment to take up colonial employment.
His apprehensions regarding the retiring age are not fully understood but they probebly arise from the recommendation made by the recent Hong Kong Salaries Commission that the Hong Kong Government
should
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