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there is no precedent for taking into account UK

in determining

salary

and

pension levels

arrangements for HMOCS. This is in spite of the

fact that

for colonial

pension earning rates

civil servants have always been better than

their UK counterparts, and we have never sought

to penalise those in the colonies whose salaries

were also higher.

salary levels

uniform.

salaries

in Hong Kong Are far from

Administrative

officers

receive

considerably better than their UK

counterparts.

But this ia less true of the

Police. They form the majority of HMOCS members

in Hong Kong, and will be crucial to our ability

to administer Hong Kong in the next few years.

4.

You

officers will

suggest that under your scheme HMOCS

enjoy retirement benefita

fall below those

that will never

In fact, your

of their UK counterparts.

proposal for the

trigger at 26:1 to operate only after

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The holow

will make them

point to us