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EX CYPHER

FM HONGAID 081600

TO PRIORITY GOVERNOR, HONG KONG, TELNO HK323, 8TH JULY, 1974.

FOR SCOTT FROM KIDD.

CONFIDENTIAL

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DETECTIVE CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT HOWELL TODAY INTERVIEWED BY BOARD

COMPRISING CROWSON, MACOUN AND MYSELF. HOWELL IS A TALL, SMART

MAN OF 46, WITH GOOD BEARING. HE IS MARRIED WITH TWO CHILDREN;

THE YOUNGER, A BOY AGED 13, WOULD ACCOMPANY HIM TO HONG KONG IF

HOWELL IS APPOINTED.

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HOWELL JOINED THE METROPOLITAN POLICE IN 1949 AND HAS

SERVED IN C.I.D. SINCE 1954. IN 1960 HE WAS PROMOTED TO SECOND

CLASS SERGEANT AND POSTED FIRST TO CHELSEA AND THEN TO SCOTLAND

YARD ON DUTIES COVERING EXTRADITION AND FRAUD.

AFTER PROMOTION

TO FIRST CLASS SERGEANT IN NOVEMBER 1961, HE WAS POSTED TO BOW

STREET AND JOINED THE FLYING SQUAD (MURDER SQUAD) IN 1963. HE

BECAME DETECTIVE INSPECTOR IN 1965 AND WORKED IN CRIMINAL

INTELLIGENCE BEFORE TAKING THE INTERMEDIATE COMMAND COURSE AT

THE POLICE COLLEGE WHERE HE AFTERWARDS BECAME CHIEF INSTRUCTOR

IN THE DETECTIVE TRAINING SCHOOL WITH THE RANK OF CHIEF INSPECTOR

in 1966. IN 1970 HE BECAME DEPUTY COMMANDANT OF THE SCHOOL AND

IN DECEMBER 1971 HE TRANSFERRED

WAS PROMOTED TO SUPERINTENDENT.

TO MANAGEMENT SERVICES WHERE HE GAINED SOME EXPERIENCE OF

COMPUTERISATION OF PERSONNEL RECORDS AND ATTENDED A COURSE AT

BRISTOL MANAGEMENT CENTRE ON WORK STUDY AND PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT.

IN SEPTEMBER 1972 HE RETURNED TO THE MURDER SQUAD AND IN JUNE

1973 HE WAS SECONDED BRIEFLY TO TUNISIA AS POLICE ADVISER.

SINCE DECEMBER 1973 HE HAS BEEN CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT IN THE

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION BRANCH DEALING WITH DRUGS, ILLEGAL

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