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Future : The Joint Declaration specifically provides for the continued employment of civil servants from overseas, except for certain senior posts. There have been no major changes in localisation policy following the Joint Declaration.
To prepare for 1997, practical changes have however been introduced into the Administrative Service, the Police and the Legal Department
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Administrative Service
The Administrative Service already comprises a majority of local officers (75%). To ensure that arrangements described in Section IV of Annex I to the Joint Declaration regarding appointments to senior posts can be put into effect by 1997, overseas officers are now generally required to leave the service on reaching the age of 57. This step is necessary now in order to avoid the need to retire larger numbers of overseas officers in the mid-1990s.
Police The natural pace of localising officer ranks would have resulted in a majority of senior posts still being held
held by overseas officers by 1997. It is considered more appropriate that they should be predominantly local and the target is to achieve this by 2000. To reach the localisation objective, steps are being taken to identify suitable local officers for promotion, to provide training to develop their potential, and to advance them through the Force.
Legal
The Legal Department has a large proportion of overseas officers and targets have been set exceptionally for 50% of the non-directorate, and 30% of the directorate to be local by the mid-1990s. To achieve this, a "double ladder" scheme has been introduced to give local non-directorate officers advanced promotion and better career prospects.
And a Development Posts Scheme is also being introduced to facilitate the localisation of the directorate, by providing local Senior Crown Counsel with more management training and career exposure opportunities to enhance their promotion prospects.
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