3
Police Staff Associations
6.
Members of the Police Force were particularly upset with the results of the deliberations of the "Review Committee on Disciplined Services Pay and Conditions of Service" (known as the Rennie Committee), which were released in the Committee's Final Report in October 1988 and approved by the Executive Council some two months later. Force Management had asked for a review of Police pay and conditions of service, but the Hong Kong Government extended this to include a review of the pay and conditions of service of the other four Disciplined Services, but not including the Independent Commission Against Corruption. The net result was that, although the Police Force was given a separate pay scale and did achieve a substantial salary rise (coupled with the establishment of a separate Police Sub-Committee of the newly-formed "Standing Committee on Disciplined Services Salaries and Conditions of Service"), so did the general Disciplined Services and this meant that there was a substantial erosion of the differentials that had hitherto existed between Police salaries and those of the general Disciplined Services the Police Staff Associations feel very strongly about.
7.
-
something that
The former Commissioner, Mr Anning, and the Police Staff Associations (not including the Local Inspectors' Association) accepted the findings of the Rennie Committee but with strong reservations and, as soon as the Police Sub-Committee had been set up, Force Management pressed hard for a further review of Police salaries in an effort, not only to combat falling recruitment and increased wastage, but also to restore, and hopefully enhance, the previous salary differentials. However, the Police Sub-Committee moved too slowly for the Police Staff Associations, who were working much more closely together and became decidedly more strident and a degree more militant following the election of their new Executive Committees in May of this year with the Superintendents' Association, in particular, adopting a noticeably more radical approach than hitherto. 19 June 1990, the Associations announced that they would have nothing more to do with the Police Sub-Committee. I should perhaps also mention that they had previously withdrawn from the Pay Trend Survey Committee, which meets at regular intervals throughout the year to review pay trends in Hong Kong and then recommend an annual pay adjustment for all Government servants, including members of the Police Force this was on the grounds that the Police Staff Associations could not be seen to be "making common cause" with members of trade unions (that is, the Staff Side members of the other central Government consultative councils represented on the Pay Trend Survey Committee).
-
On
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.