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Date:

28.11.86.

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Reporter:

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In conclusion, Chairman and Members, may I say that I fully accept the spirit in which these investigations are made and arrangements have been and are being made to transfer out excess

civilian staff. I should point out though that in this case we

feel the report is not totally accurate and contains some innuendos

It does not include the that are not fully supported by the facts.

results of the latest Organisation and Methods study, of which Audit

has been fully apprised. The use of the 4.6 million estimate

figure is misleading.

of this figure.

There is no reference to subsequent revisions

CHAIRMAN: Thank you, Mr Commissioner, for your explanation.

Could I start off with a question before members of this Committee put further questions. This information that you supplied to us this morning with regard to your forecasts, has this information been given to the Director of Audit during the audit ?

C of P: The information was available other than the

results of the last Organisation and Methods survey which has only

just been published.

CHAIRMAN:

The last page, this information was available ?

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C of P: The information regarding the revised estimates

to the number of tickets, etc, was made available.

This particular sheet and this prior forecast

based on where this 4.6 million come from, based on the trend that

you have revised ?

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These were the arguments advanced by police at

this time to the Director of Audit.

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MR CHEONG:

Could it be that the information was available

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but not necessarily available in the form it has been put to us

this morning?

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