TNAG-2441-FCO40-3547-Royal-Hong-Kong-Police-Force-1992 — Page 4

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Our ref :

: PROT 1/2481/91

DE Tarling Esq

Head, Honours Unit

HKA 382/1

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Old Admiralty Building

Whitehall SW1 2AF

PROTOCOL DIVISION GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT

HONG KONG

9 December 1992

Dear

will

Mr Tarling.

Royal Hong Kong Police Force

150th Anniversary

As you may know, the Royal Hong Kong Police celebrate its 150th Anniversary on 1 May 1994. As one of the events to mark the occasion, the Force is very keen to have a commemorative medal struck the intention is that all officers serving on that date would receive the medal and that, hopefully, they would be permitted to wear the ribbon (and on appropriate occasions the insignia of the award) when in uniform. We recognise that this raises a number of complex policy questions which will have to be addressed, but what I am interested in researching at this stage, is the modalities. That is, how should we go about seeking approval, submitting a design and what would be the likely costs?

I should be most grateful to have your advice on these points.

I believe that there is a recent precedent of a medal struck in 1988 for the centenary of the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary. The essential difference from Hong Kong is, of course, that Papua New Guinea is still a Monarchical State of the Commonwealth and acknowledges The Queen as Head of State. Hong Kong will of course become a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China after 1997, and the Force will be renamed, but the organisation will continue on for a further fifty years after that date.

TxN 382/2

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