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Chief Secretary, Turks and Caicos Islands
Requirement
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36
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In six cases, the requirement is qualified by the word "possibly" so the true total should be nearer 33 than 36. To meet it, there should (paragraph 11 of the paper) be available serving or ex-HMOCS officers who can between them cover 36 postings. Sometimes those officers may be needed to do jobs in the specialist or the diplomatic skill categories which I have described; but not, I should think, often.
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8. Under the circumstances, it seems reasonable to deduce that the gap, in respect of general administrators, should not be more than 5 or 6 and might well be less. If it was, indeed, that small, it could probably be filled without recourse to any Diplomatic Service Officers lacking an HMOCS background. For instance:
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some officers might deliberately be left in their posts for longer periods than the three years assumed in paragraph 8 of the paper. (Three years was an unusually short posting for an HMOCS officer);
would the expensive topping-up necessary in the case of Hong Kong officers (see paragraph 6 of the paper) cost materially more than it would cost to employ an officer on the Diplomatic Service terms which would presumably have to be offered to anyone from that Service? If not, a few more officers might be tempted to spend a tour away from Hong Kong, on secondment;
has consideration been given to the possibility of obtaining a few officers on secondment from the Security Service? A large proportion of its officers started their careers in HMOCS, and some might welcome the chance of returning temporarily in this way;
there should be little difficulty about interesting a few officers who have just retired from the Armed Services, in their early fifties, probably having held one or even two star rank and some of them might be well fitted by temperament and training for jobs of the kind which. have to be filled.
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I have raised these points principally because so few of the jobs concerned can be expected to have much appeal for mainstream Diplomatic Service Officers (e.g. jobs like those of Commissioner, Anguilla; Administrator, Ascension; Administrator, Tristan da Cunha; Chief Secretary or Governor, St Helena; and so on. Jobs in Bermuda may be quite another matter!). But, to be frank, another reason is that I am anyway doubtful whether such officers are as well suited for these jobs as people of the kinds I have
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