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remedial action should be taken, if at all possible, We are advised that the decision of the Commissioner of Police to dismiss Sergeant Chu under powers conferred on him by the Police Force Ordinance cannot be reversed except by means of special legislation and we accept that for political reasons this would be a very difficult (if not positively dangerous) step to take at the present time. Accordingly there can be no question of reinstatement (he is in any case o ver 55) or of substituting retirement in the public interest. Our legal advisers have expressed the view that the proper course would be to grant Sergeant Chu an ex-gratia pension of the amount he would have received by way of pension if he had retired at the date of his dismissal in 1962; and that payment would probably have to be backdated to 1962.
This of course would not clear the Sergeant's name and he might press for full clearance, using the Parliamentary channels that he has established. But we feel that in this event we could hold the position by stating that the grant of an ex-gratia pension was an act of clemency in the light of further consideration of the case but that this further consideration did not establish the innocence of Sergeant Chu,
We should be grateful if you would look at this case again and consider a solution on the lines set out above.
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(H.P. Hall)
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