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1. WE HAVE HAD ENQUIRIES FROM MICHAEL DAVIES, CHIEF, ILLICIT DRUGS TRAFFIC UNIT DIVISION OF NARCOTIC DRUGS REGARDING THE FILLING OF THE POST OF INTER-REGIONAL ADVISER.
2. WE WERE NOT ABLE TO RELEASE MR JOSEPH CHENG, ROYAL HONG KONG
POLICE AS DAVIES HAD ASKED, BUT IN LETTER REF (5) IN CP/CON/182/18
OF THE 2ND OCTOBER, WE ENQUIRED WHETHER MR PETER LAW SHOULD BE CONSIDERED.
3. IN THE MEANTIME, THERE HAS BEEN A FURTHER DEVELOPMENT. MR
BRIAN SLEVIN, WHO WILL BE RETIRING AS COMMISSIONER OF POLICE IN
HE EARLY 1979, HAS ASKED THAT HIS NAME SHOULD BE CONSIDERED. HAS A VERY WIDE KNOWLEDGE OF HONG KONG AND OF THE REGION AND OF POLICE PERSONALITIES IN IT, AND HAS KEPT CLOSELY IN TOUCH WITH NARCOTICS AFFAIRS DURING THE FIVE YEARS THAT HE HAS BEEN COMMISSIO AND BEFORE. ON RETIREMENT FROM HONG KONG, HE IS ANXIOUS TO REMAIN IN THE LAW ENFORCEMENT SECURITY FIELD GENERALLY. HE QUITE ACCEPTS THAT TO DO SO, AND CERTAINLY FOR A PRELIMINARY PERIOD, HE SHOULD WORK AT A REDUCED LEVEL OF RESPONSIBILITY.
4. NO ANNOUNCEMENT HAS BEEN MADE OF HIS IMPENDING RETIREMENT
AND IT IS MOST IMPORTANT THAT HIS INTEREST IN FUTURE EMPLOYMENT SHOULD NOT LEAK AT THIS STAGE. WE INTEND TO MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT IN EARLY DECEMBER, BUT IN THE MEANTIME, I AM ANXIOUS TO GIVE HIM WHAT ASSISTANCE I CAN TO FIND SUITABLE EMPLOYMENT.
5. WOULD YOU PLEASE MAKE ENQUIRIES ON A VERY CONFIDENTIAL BASIS
WHETHER SLEVIN'S INTEREST WOULD BE RECIPROCATED BY THE DIVISION OF NARCOTIC DRUGS, I WOULD NOT WISH, TO EMBARRASS HIM BY LETTING M HIM MAKE A FORMAL APPLICATION IF THERE WAS ANY QUESTI
NOT GETTING THE JOB.
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