TNAG-2092-FCO40-2978-Royal-Hong-Kong-Police-Force-1990 — Page 91

File No.

Page

M 2

Secretary for the Civil Service

You ask

Police

(a) whether there is any means by which

can released from their oath of office

Officers

(b)

in 1997; and

if not, whether they have any claim to compensation or abolition of office terms.

I advise as follows

2.

(a)

Release from Oath of Office

G. F. 82

an

It is important to remember that it is

oath of office with which we are concerned. It is not an Oath of Allegiance as is prescribed in the Oaths and Declarations Ordinance (Cap 11). What in effect the police officers are required to provide by s 26 and the Schedule to the

Ordinance (Cap 232) is expression of their committment to their employer in relation to their service as a police officers.

At

is cmployer

the Crown.

Police

Force

present

the

-

30 June 1997 the employer will be the HKSARG.

an

After

Article 99 of the Basic Law provides, inter

alia, that -

Public servants must be dedicated to

their duties and be responsible to the

Government of the Hong Kong

Administrative Region."

Special