CO129-612-3 Police Department- petition from European memebers of Inspectorate 20-7-1949 - 20-1-1950 — Page 24

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December, 1949.

676,652/55

sir,

I am directed by Mr. Secretary Creech Jones to refer to Home Office letter of the 15th July, 1948, on the subject of members of the Hong Kong Police Force who were recruited from County and Borough Police Forces in this country.

The Governor of Hong Kong has come to the conclusion that some of these men recruited during 1945 and 1946 had grounds for supposing that their pension rights would not be entirely abrogated on resignation from the parent force. He is therefore proposing to introduce legislation whereby the Hong Kong Government will accept full pension liability in respect of police service in the United Kingdom of former members of County and Borough Forces who were recruited for service with the British Military Administration in Hong Kong, which will give them benefits comparable with those enjoyed by former members of the Metropolitan Police appointed to Hong Kong. This concession will take the form of supplementary pension calculated in the manner in which pension are normally assessed in these County or Borough Forces and payable in due course to those officers who qualify for a pension from Hong Kong funds under the ordinary pension law, in the same way as former members of the Metropolitan Police will receive a separate pension from United Kingdom funds based on their salaries and length of

THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE,

HOME OFFICE.

service