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38. A Working Party on In-Service training studied these develop- ments in 1975 and recommended a programme which introduced the following:-
(a) Functional Leadership
(b)
"On-the-Job" Training
(c)
Character Training
(a)
Advanced training.
The main objective of the above programme of in-service training was to create the means whereby potential junior leaders in the Force could have the opportunities to show initiative and self- reliance as well as the channel through which middle-ranking and senior officers are prepared for promotion through participation in seminars and advanced training courses. This has been an intelligent and well planned programme which already is showing results.
39. The Overseas (UK) Training requirements of the Force will in the foreseeable future be confined to attendance on Command and Instructor Courses at Bramshill Police College and Hendon respectively and on Special Studies attachments at the Home Office Central Planning and Instructor Unit at Pannal Ash, Harrogate, Yorks.
40. In addition to attendance on courses in the UK, it is intended to send officers on Courses in Malaysia, Fiji, Australia and New Zealand.
41. Amongst other items of significance discussed and studied in depth at Police Headquarters were the need to ensure that the expanded CID was properly serviced in resources - transport, duplicating machines, office equipment etc., the future requirements of Traffic Branch (presently pegged at 50% of its authorised establishment) particularly in the light of new town developments in the Colony, the housing of rank and file which is still unsatis- factory and the subject of criticism during my informal meetings in Kowloon and on Hong Kong Island and the expansion and restruc- turing of the Police Complaints Branch.
42. So far as the Complaints Branch is concerned, I learned that there is pressure from the Unofficial Members of Executive and Legislative Councils (UMELCO) for public monitoring of complaints against the Police. This pressure is being resisted but I suggested that there might be merit in the attachment of a Legal Adviser to Police Headquarters who would provide independent scrutiny of complaints against the Police. His Excellency The Acting Governor accepted the need for some action to be taken to counter UMELCO pressure and the Commissioner of Police appeared to welcome such an appointment.
43.
The Police Complaints Branch currently has an establishment of 1 Superintendent and 6 Chief Inspectors and deals with an average of 60 complaints per month.
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