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336

No. RC 216/77/09DRAFT SAVING DESPATCH

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

Top Secret.

Secret.

Confidential.

Restricted.

Unclassified.

PRIVACY MARKING

....In Confidence

To:-

The Governor

HONG KONG

Type 1 +

From

Telephone No. & Ext.

Department

Your saving despatch No Staff 89

RECRUITMENT OF INSPECTORS OF POLICE

1. We see no objection to the line of action

proposed in your paragraph 2 so far as recruitment

in South Africa is concerned. We think it

important that the Hong Kong Government, when

advertising in South Africa, should stipulate the

possession of a UK passport as a qualification

for appointment.

2. As regards recruitment in Southern Rhodesia

there would of course be the problem of allegiance.

It would be undesirable to accept into the service

of the Crown a Rhodesian Police Officer who had

presumably been serving a regime in rebellion

against the Crown. Our Embassy in Pretoria,

to whom a copy of your saving despatch No 89 was

sent, have commented as follows -

"For political reasons the Hong Kong

Government would presumably have to employ

a South African agent and have those

Rhodesians who answered their advertisement

interviewed in South Africa.

The recruits

CONFIDENTIAL

/would