TNAG-0713-FCO40-908-Colonial-Regulations-policy-on-disciplinary-procedures-1978 — Page 52

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I think we need to be quite clear of what we are doing in this case: a political decision has been taken that, because of the overriding need to ront out corrupt police offices, we can do a certain amount of corner cutting. "Hat is to say, we are prepared to dismiss officers, if that we are reasonably certain they are corrupt, even though the case against them is not watertight. Because we do not want this corner cutting to be exposed to priblic scouting, we propose to resort to CRSS rather than CR59. CR55 parmit, no to dismiss stuff without revealing the reasons, and without obliging us to submit cases to curry form of

of independent review, and I do not think we should make any any significant concession on either point - otherwise we sight as well have stuck to C959 in the first place. Or Champion's interpretation of CR55 is for and lunare and entirely right for normal proposes. But in the special context of police cor- ruption, we need to be quite ruthless; we have the power to do so and we should use it - and be prepared to defend on doing

right up to the highest level.

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W.E. Cantill

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