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UNCLASSIFIED

Overseas Police Adviser

Reference.

در که بر

MCKINSEY'S REPORT ON HONG KONG

1.

You may wish to see Appendix B of the attached first volume of the Report. This is a special survey on ways of strengthening Personnel Management in the Royal Hong Kong Police.

2. I have been sent this report on a personal basis and we are not asked for comments at this stage. I think it might be premature, for example, for comments to go directly to the Commissioner or to McKinseys. But we could, if you think it desirable, pass any points to the Secretariat by the same personal channel through which I received the Report.

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Mr Crowson

28 February 1973

Mr Stuar

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Dest

A C Stuart

Hong Kong & Indian Ocean Department

Thank you for enabling me to see this advance copy of the McKinsey report.

2. In effect, the recommendation is that the Royal Hong Kong Police Force should establish a Personnel Management section in Headquarters. This would be similar to the Management Services section in the Metropolitan Police.

3. Implied in the recommendations is the need for a much more closely co-ordinated approach not only to management of the resources of the Force but also to recruitment and service problems. This is all to the good as my impression when in Hong Kong in December was that there was a proliferation of administrative sections in Headquarters, lack of inter-Departmental cohesion and excessive reference to the "hierarchy" (CP-DCP (A)-DCP(Ops))+matters which should be properly delegated.

6 March 1973

M J Macoun OPA

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