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the senior non-expatriate officers association
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The Hon. E.B. Wiggham, CBE, JP Secretary for the Civil Service
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Localization Policy
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g.p.o. box 1007 telephone 5-95267
- 5 MAY 1997
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M Waters,
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We read with mixed feelings, recent newspaper coverage on comments you made at the Financial Committee special hearing in regard of the Government's Localization Policy. We hail your reitera- tion that the Government attaches priority in identifying and training Such of high-calibre local civil servants in the leading-up to 1997. decision is not only fair and equitable to officers who have family ties in Hong Kong and the sincerity to serve the local community, but also proper in ensuring a smooth transition of Government in accor- dance with the Sino-British Joint Declaration and the Basic Law.
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Your declaration at the same occasion that the "directorate succession exercises" had been upgraded to include all departmental and policy branch heads to intensify the localization process is also well received. Whilst we appreciate your statement that the Govern- ment had not promised that each and every post would be filled by locals and it would like to see expatriate civil servants because Hong Kong is a cosmopolitan city, we would like to stress that reten- tion of such expatriate officers should not be made for the sake of retaining them but for well-defined operation necessities as declared by the Governemnt under the contexts of the Localization Policy.
Although on the face of the statistical figures you quoted, it gives an impression that the pace of localization has been acce- lerated, yet we are of the view that as a long standing policy stipu- lated some decades ago, the judgement on how well it has been con- ducted lies not SO much on the statistical figures but on the thoroughness of it execution. In this regard, we would like to draw
such areas where your attention to
policy has not been properly instituted. To let facts speak for themselves, we attached herewith four lists of departmental areas where the situation warrant special
attention.
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