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Determined to expose the first serious round of lies that had been levelled against me I that afternoon applied to Kowloon District Commander MR T.E.CLUNIE, seeking transfer to another division. A week later MR CLUNIE interviewed me

in the presence of MR CHAN CHEUNG CHUEN. Whereas MR CHAN had accused me, for example, of laziness and failing to supervise my subordinates properly, MR CLUNIE told me not to be over-zealous and said that my description of my approach to the supervision of my men was something he himself had been advocating for years as being the right thing. Nevertheless, MR CLUNIE deferred my first annual incremental increase until MR CHAN was to be satisfied

with me.

14. At the Police Training School I had been advised unofficially by an experienced colleague that any officer who resisted corruption would be discharged from the Force during or at the time of the end of his probationary period on the basis of false bad progress reports fabricated and accumulated to show that he was "unlikely to make an efficient police officer" or that he was "temperamentally unsuitable."

15. On 22 June 1963 I was handed a memorandum dated 19 June

1963 from the Commissioner of Police, MR HENRY HEATH, stating that "serious consideration" was being given to terminating my services on the grounds that I was "temperamentally unsuited for a career in the Force, in which a team spirit based on discipline, co-operation and confidence is essential." It levelled a number of criticisms regarding my conduct of my duties at Hunghom. There were numbers of inconsistencies. A major criticism had been that I had "tended to disregard the advice and instruction" given to me on "the manner" in which my "allotted tasks should be performed." I will here make only two observations on this particular point. First, the advice and instruction I was given by my superior officers was on occasion quite illegal. For example, although a constable is traditionally an independent officer under the Crown, although he has a Common Law

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