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Assessment

3.

It

If 30% of the local officer cadre were to leave before 1997 this would create a shortage of 620 officers. would be extremely difficult to cover this shortage through local recruitment and through promotion from the

Rank and File.

It is for this reason that we wish to

retain

as long expatriate

possible.

Expatriate

potential members,

HMOCS

officers for as

including officers,

comprise 21% of the total officer cadre and are invariably those with the greater working experience and whose loss

would be most keenly felt.

Civil Service Branch

26 July 1991

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