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CONFIDENTIAL

Report of the Civil Service Branch, Government Secretariat, for the period

1st August to 31st October 1977

APPOINTMENTS DIVISION

Recruitment both local and overseas continued

at a very high rate. 333 posts within PSC's purview were

advertised locally between 1st August and 31st October.

On 31st October 279 posts were under recruitment overseas

(including 77 Police Inspectors). 172 newly appointed

officers (including 51 Police Inspectors) arrived from

overseas between 1st August and 31st October.

2.

Recruitment to the rank and file of the Police

Force between 1.7.77 and 30.9.77 totalled 526. On 30.9.77,

there were 711 vacancies in the rank and file establishment

The establishment is expected to increase

of 16,303.

soon and the recruitment target from 1st October 1977

to 31st March 1978 is 1,074.

3.

Since the scheme to re-deploy several hundred

surplus Government primary school teachers to other jobs

within the Education Department and other Government

departments was announced in July, a total of 1,664

applications for re-deployment within the Education Department

and 390 applications for transfer to grades in other

departments have been received from surplus primary school

teachers. As at 28th October 1977, 31 such teachers

had been recommended for appointment on transfer to other

/grades...