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Mr

Harold Vincent BROWN, MVO, CFM

Mr Brown joined the Royal Hong Kong Police in 1954 following four years in the Army and progressed to his present rank of Assistant Commissioner in 1980. Since 1971, he has served mainly in the Operations Branch at Police Headquarters. He was the Police representative in the Royal Visit Office for the visit of Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh in 1975, for which he was awarded the MVO. He is at present Head of the Anti- Illegal Immigration Control Centre charged with the direction and co-ordination of Police and Military operations concerning Illegal Immigrants and Refugeees. He has also contributed significantly to the development of Internal Security Tactics. His duty performance throughout his service has been of an exceptionally high order.

CFSM

Mr Stanislaus Michael ELCOCK, CPM

Following part-time service in the Auxiliary Fire Service in Britain during the Second World War and then the Royal Navy, Mr Elcock joined the Birkenhead Fire Brigade in UK in 1949. In 1958/59 he was seconded to the Cyprus Fire Services during the emergencies in that territory and in 1960 he transferred to the Hong Kong Fire Service as a Station officer. He was awarded the Colonial Police Medal for Meritorious Service in 1975. Throughout his 33 years of regular professional fire service in UK, Cyprus and Hong Kong he has served mainly in operational areas where his skill, power of command, deter- mination and all round professionalism has been of immense value, to Hong Kong especially.

OFSM

Mr

Harold Leonard ELSWORTH, CFM

Following service in the British Mercantile Marine throughout the 1939-45 world war Mr Elsworth joined the British Fire Service in June 1946 and transferred to the Hong Kong Fire Service as a Station Officer in November 1961. He was awarded the Colonial Police Medal in 1976. Throughout his 35 years in the Fire Service in UK and Hong Kong he has maintained a high standard of personal and professional conduct.

He has distinguished himself in countless mergencies including fire, flood and riots. He has consistently displayed

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