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TICKETS WOULD BE ISSUED, SUCH ACTION WOULD NOT PREJUDICE
CONTINUANCE OF PROTECTION OF LIVES AND PROPERTY.
NOTE: IT IS NOT YET APPARENT WHETHER SUCH ACTION IS DEING TAKEN, BUT IN ALL OTHER RESPECTS NORMAL DUTIES ARE BEING PERFORMED AND THERE HAVE BEEN SOME GOOD ARRESTS:
(D) POSTERS CALLING FOR UNITY AND SUPPORT WWOULD BE DISPLAYED IN POLICE STATIONS AND FORCE BUILDINGS,
NOTE:-- SOME POSTERS HAVE BEEN PUT UP IN VARIOUS POLICE BUILDINGS WITH THE SLOGAN QUOTE PC'S UNITE FOR FUTURE UNIQUE ACTION UNQUOTE. THESE HAVE BEEN REMOVED OR OBLITERATED.
(E) ALL RANK AND FILE ARE TO BE ADVISED TO IGNORE AND BOYCOTT MEETINGS BEING CALLED BY DIVISIONAL SUPERINTENDENTS.
10. AT A MEETING OF MY SECURITY COMMITTEE WE HAVE REVIEWED THE SITUATION IN THE LIGHT OF THE ABOVE AND OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FOLICES'S ASSESSMENT WHICH, IN SUMMARY, WAS AS FOLLOWS:-
A) THE POLICE ARE CONTINUING TO REPORT FOR DUTY AND ARE OPERATING EFFECTIVELY:
(B) EFFORTS TO DEFUSE THE SITUATION HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL, SUPPORT FOR THE DISSIDENTS HAS SPREAD:
(C) THE JUNIOR POLICE, INSPECTORATE AND OFFICERS ALL DEMAND AN AMNESTY. THE EARLIER NINE POINTS ARE NO LONGER SO IMPORTANT: (D) THE ABILITY OF THE SENIOR OFFICERS TO CONTROL RANK AND FILE
IS IN DOUBT:
(E) THERE IS DEEP RESENTMENT AGAINST THE TREATMENT WHICH THE FORCE BELIEVES IT HAS SUFFERED AT THE HANDS OF ICAC. THIS RESENTMENT IS FELT BOTH BY THOSE WHO ARE FEARFUL AND THROUGHOUT
THE FORCE AS A WHOLE.
(F) IT SEEMED LIKELY THAT ORDINARY POLICE ACTION AGAINST CRIME WOULD BE CONTINUED THOUGH THERE MIGHT BE A SLOWDOWN AGAINST CRIME SUCH AS HAWKING, TRAFFIC ETC.
(G) THE FORCE WOULD CONTINUE TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY:
(H) THERE WAS A REAL POSSIBILITY OF FURTHER PROTEST MEETINGS OR OF A MASS MARCH. IF IT WERE TO BE DECIDED TO TAKE STEPS TO PREVENT THIS, THERE WAS DOUBT ABOUT THE RESPONSE OF THE FORCE.
(1) THE CONCESSIONS SO FAR MADE HAD HAD NO EFFECT ON THE MOOD
OF THE FORCE.
(J) THE LONGER WE DELAYED TAKING POSITIVE STEPS THE GREATER WOULD BE THE ESCALATION OF DISSATISFACTION,
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