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CONFIDENTIAL

4.

Recent reports have not shown any further signs of trouble

within the police. The compulsory retirement in April of some 120

police officers under Colonial Regulation 55 has been accepted without

There is now no backlog of cases outstanding from

serious protest.

before the amnesty of last November:

this has removed the main source

The Junior Police Officers'

of uncertainty within the Service.

Association, which was formed following the disturbances in October/

November last year, appears to be concentrating on its primary task of

seeking improvements in its members' working conditions.

It does not

appear to have fallen under the control of the extremists who at one

stage sought to use it as an instrument to defy the authority of the

Government.

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