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Mr Crowson

Crowdo

MR ALAN ELLIS HONG KONG

(HKIOD K 247)

EX-PROBATIONARY INSPECTOR OF POLICE,

Having waded through the welter of correspondence, petitions and submissions on the subject of the above- named's dismissal from the Hong Kong Police in July 1963, I have come to the following conclusions:-

(1) Despite a promising start to a career in the

Hong Kong Police, including the award of the Baton of Honour at the Police Training School, Mr Ellis proved to be an intractable subordinate officer during his probationary period of service and his appointment was terminated on the general grounds of "temperamental unsuitability for police work" (section 23(1) of the Hong Kong Police Force Ordinances provides for discharge of an unconfimed inspector).

(2) In his appeal against termination of service he

introduced wide-ranging allegations of injustice and a specific complaint against a senior officer.

(3)

(4)

An enquiry was conducted into his allegations by an Assistant Commissioner of Police who was satisfied that the grounds for termination of service were proper and that the complaint against the senior officer contained no prima facie evidence and therefore could be discounted.

Mr Ellis subsequently petitioned the Governor, unsuccessfully.

(5) It was not until twelve months after he was

discharged from the Force that Mr Ellis began to make representations to Members of Parliament against his dismissal. In the course of these representations he made a number of allegations against officers under whom he had served. These representations have continued intermittently for the last eight years.

(6) Mr Ellis undoubtedly suffered form a degree of

persecution complex during his brief "unconfirmed" service in the Hong Kong Folice and, once found to be wanting in qualities considered necessary by his superiors for retention in the service, decided, after a period of twelve months when he was employed as a journalist in Hong Kong, to indulge in wide-ranging allegations of mal- administration and malpractice in the Force.

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