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b) The extensive recruitment campaign, which was already underway before the recent crisis, will continue and will be supplemented, on the advice of the British team, by the recruitment of a limited number of senior officers from the

The Hong Kong Government have already agreed to the appointment of Major-General Purdon as Deputy Commissioner Administration to be in charge of personnel relations.

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c) A Junior Police Officers' Association (JPOA) has been established to provide police officers below the rank of Inspector with a recognized channel for pursuing grievances. This will help to avoid any repetition of the situation which led to near mutiny last November and to assist internal communications within the RHKPF.

d) Action has now been taken to deal with virtually all the cases that were left over after the amnesty last November. This has removed the remaining cause of the uncertainty that was a major factor in the crisis of morale in the Police,

The indications are that the JPQA is not going to fall under the influence of the small mumber of militants who were mainly responsible for last autumn's disturbances, The reaction of the police to the recent decision to bring charges against 24 people involved in the Yau Ma Tei drugs racket, and to compulsorily retire 119 others, has been calm.

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