TNAG-2091-FCO40-2977-Royal-Hong-Kong-Police-Force-1990 — Page 144

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in the United Kingdom, or was recruited by the Crown Agents for Uversea Governments and Administrations; or

was at any time recruited to a post for which, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, a normal channel of recruitment would have been either the Colonial Office or the Crown Agents for Cversea Governments and Administrations; or was at any time a member of Her Majesty's Over- seas Civil service or Her Majesty's Overseas Judiciary; or

was at any time a designated officer under an Overseas Service Aid Scheme Agreement."

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entitlement to The other principal advantage of membership compensation on independence - does not apply in the case of Hong Kong, but CS officers value the recognition by the Secretary of State of a special responsibility towards then, and the record confirms that this responsibility is still taken seriously, as it has been in the past.

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4. Most recruitment on pensionable terms of HOCS in Hong Kong these days is within the administrative and police cadres. There is no problem here: my Department looks after the recruitment of the administrators; and in order to ensure that the police officers who are recruited by your London office can subsequently qualify for membership of OCS, as you know, the Secretary of State has a representative on the selection board. Similarly the occasional transfer of an HIOCS officer to Hong Kong is readily dealt with through us or the CD, and presents no problem.

5. so far as I know (and subject to correction, you do not normally now directly recruit professional or technical officers on pensionable terms; the majority if not all of these officers are, I understand, recruited on short term contract. It is only in rare cases, where suitable local officers are unlikely to be available for a considerable time to come, that you admit an expatriate officer to the pensionable establishment, after a period of satisfactory service on contract terms. Hitherto in these cases In consequential application to us for the officer's admission to HMCCS has normally presented no difficulty, since he was originally recruited by the secretary of State or by the Crown Agents. When your London office takes over professional and technical recruitment, however, your recruits will not have this qualification. If they are to be eligible for HCCS membership, therefore (and I am assuming that you agree that they should be), we shall have to devise a new and acceptable procedure to permit this.

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