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The need for Measures in the case of Hong Kong
4.
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have not been able to
No expatriates joining HKG after March 1985 may become HMOCS officers, however two key areas of the Civil
Service in Hong Kong still contain substantial numbers of
HMOCS members. In the police force, some 60% of superintendents and above are expatriates, and the majority
of these officers are also HMOCS members. In all there are
363 police HMOCS members and a further 260 police officers
who have the option to become HMOCS members. In the administrative service, about one quarter (99) of all officers who occupy the middle and senior ranks of the Hong
Kong Government are HMOCS members. There are also some 40
judicial HMOCS members and some 280 others, mostly professionals. If large numbers of police officers were to
leave, the command structure of the Police Force would
collapse, and the Force would not be able to maintain law
and order. If there was a large scale departure of senior
civil servants, our ability to administer Hong Kong
It could also encourage
effectively could be undermined.
others to leave and have a wider effect on confidence in
the Joint Declaration. It is not possible to predict how
many HMOCS officers might decide to leave if acceptable
arrangments are not made, or when they might do so. But the
Governor considers that there is a real risk that
significant numbers of HMOCS officers will leave unless
adequate arrangements are announced soon.
Elements of a Package
(i) Compensation
5.
Since 1988 we have, with the Hong Kong Government,
developed proposals for a low-cost compensation scheme
designed to include an incentive for HMOCS officers to stay
in Hong Kong after 1997. The details are at Annex B. While
this scheme is much more modest than a traditional
compensation scheme and will therefore fall well short of
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