V.
Civil Service
7.
SCS spoke in some detail about morale in the Civil Service
and the police force, saying that it was generally good, but
there were understandable anxieties in the face of the changes
which the terms of the JD made inevitable.
In particular,
Apart
there were worries among expatriates in the police force
because of the uncertainties surrounding their future.
from a general query about the overall numbers of civil ser-
vants, LU Ping asked two specific questions:
a. On pensions, were we proposing to allow civil
servants to leave before 1997 taking their pensions
with them? SCS explained our thinking on modern-
isation of the pension scheme.
b. Were teachers considered to be civil servants?
SCS explained the position.
SCS also outlined plans for bringing our younger local
officers to assume more senior positions. In response to LU
Ping's query, SCS said that this involved people of John Chan's
age and experience. LU expressed some surprise (but no apparent
disapproval) that we were thinking of people so young.
general, LU's response to SCS's explanations was to nod, but
to offer no comment.
In
IV.
8.
Personal
At a personal level, he said that his father (whom we know
to have been a banker pre-1949) had spent a period of time in
Hong Kong in the 1950s.
He added that he, together with his
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