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level of 6 UE and 2 IRRS

subject to cOS approval.

for a 6 month trial period, also

If the trial proves the

feasibility and cost effectiveness of the IRR concept, this

management arrangement should be adopted formally from end-1989; if not, it is proposed that the Scout force level should remain at 8 UE. Either solution will require

revision of existing LTC provisions. [Once the RHKP have assumed responsibility for the whole border and the majority of the military tasks (from about 1993), the Garrison's half company IS lift requirement will reduce to a simultaneous single platoon lift, which will be provided by 4 Wessex. Associated LH support from about 1993 will require 4 Scouts,

but if the garrison is reduced in the period 1994-1997

subject to security and stability to a single UK battalion

group (the ultimate intention) 3 Scouts will be adequate

(12).]

50. Summary Table.

The Garrison Withdrawal Plan is

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summarised diagrammatically, in relation to the Police Expansion plan, at Annex F. This table reflects events

which have occurred since the issue of CDS 7/87 as well as

anticipated variations in the future development of the

Police Plan.

51. Studies. The following studies will be conducted during 1989:

Note:

a.

Future RN Presence. A study to be led by MOD Navy and completed by mid-1989, has been commissioned to

12. HQBFHK have advised that the information in square brackets, and that contained in Annex B, (which is extracted from CDS 7/87) is out of date and will be amended by the 1989 HQBFHK-led helicopter study. The information is retained for the record and as a reference for LTC planners

pending MODUK approval of the 1989 helicopter study.

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