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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1988

"AS HONG

AND TO CONTINUE

MR RENNIE SAID.

STUDYING IN

KONG

BECOMES

SOPHISTICATED, EXPECTS ITS DISCIPLINED SERVICES TO GROW IN EXPERTISE AND

MORE

THE

COMMUNITY

TO

BE

RELIABLE AND

AVAILABLE

EFFICIENCY, WHEN NEEDED,

THE WORK CHARACTERISTICS OF

THE DISCIPLINED

ALL TO

SERVICES, THE COMMITTEE CONSIDERED COMMON FACTORS APPLICABLE TO

WERE

APPLICABLE PARTICULARLY THE SERVICES, INCLUDING SOME WHICH DISCIPLINED SERVICE WORK.

"THESE INCLUDED KNOW-HOW, PROBLEM-SOLVING, AND WHICH WERE IMPORTANT IN ALL THE PUBLIC SERVICE.

ACCOUNTABILITY,

WERE MAJOR DIFFERENCES OF THE CIVIL SERVICE HARDSHIP, SOCIAL

CASES THERE MANY "FACTORS WHERE IN BETWEEN THE DISCIPLINED SERVICES AND THE REST INCLUDED DANGER, LONG HOURS OF WORK, SHIFT PATTERNS, SEGREGATION, RESTRICTIONS ON PERSONAL

MR RENNIE SAID. CALLS UPON STAFF TIME,"

FREEDOM, AND UNPREDICTABLE

HE NOTED THAT STRESS WAS ALSO LINKED TO MANY OF THESE FACTORS.

AFTER A CAREFUL ASSESSMENT OF THESE FACTORS AND ITS MEMBERS OF THE DIFFERENT SERVICES, THE COMMITTEE CONCLUDED SHOULD BE RANKED INTO THREE BROAD GROUPS FOR PAY PURPOSES.

EFFECT ON THAT THEY

THE

ITSELF; CORRECTIONAL

A CONSTITUTE

GROUP BY THE POLICE FORCE WOULD SECOND GROUP WOULD COMPRISE FIRE SERVICES (OPERATIONAL),

AND THE THIRD GROUP SERVICES, AND CUSTOMS AND EXCISE SERVICE;

( AMBULANCE) AND FIRE CONSISTS OF IMMIGRATION SERVICE, FIRE SERVICES SERVICES (CONTROL).

PAY SCALES AND THE OFFICERS AND RANK AND

THIS GROUPING SHOULD BE REFLECTED IN NEW EXISTING DISCIPLINED SERVICES PAY SCALES FOR FILE SHOULD BE ABOLISHED, MR RENNIE SAID.

NEW POLICE PAY THESE SCALES WOULD BE REPLACED BY A SEPARATE

GENERAL SCALE TO COVER THE ENTIRE RANK STRUCTURE OF THE POLICE, AND A

OTHER FOUR SERVICES (GDS) FOR THE DISCIPLINED SERVICES PAY SCALE

WHICH WOULD BE DIVIDED INTO THREE SECTIONS.

(COMMANDER} THESE ARE, GDS

FOR SENIOR COMMANDERS

(OFFICERS GDS (OFFICER}

CURRENTLY ON THE CIVIL SERVICE DIRECTORATE PAY SCALE), AND GDS (RANK AND FILE).

PAY SCALE FOR THE "THE COMMITTEE HAS RECOMMENDED A SEPARATE

SAME POLICE BECAUSE IT ACCEPTED THAT IF THE POLICE WERE PLACED ON THE

FOR THEIR STAFF SCALE AS THE OTHER SERVICES, IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE

SOMETIMES ASSOCIATIONS TO REPRESENT THEIR MEMBERS EFFECTIVELY WITHOUT BEING REQUIRED TO MAKE COMMON CAUSE WITH STAFF GROUPS TRADE UNIONS.

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