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261 established a separate Police Service Commission to deal with appointments, promotions and discipline in the higher ranks of the force; the Commission should be set up on a statutory basis and should have executive authority, Its functions and membership are set out in Appendix C.

21. In preparation for the setting up of a Police Service Commission with executive powers we agree that there should be instituted for the police, as soon as the necessary administrative arrangements can be made, a body parallel to the present Appointments and Promotions Board which has for some years operated for other branches of the public service; it should be set up by administrative action and should have the same advisory functions. Use might be made of the facilities, and to some extent the membership, of the present Board, always bearing in mind the special needs of the police service. By this means valuable experience could be obtained and time would be afforded for the police force itself to gain confidence in this new machinery before personnel matters become the province of a Commission with executive powers.

22. We make no specific recommendations on the exact date on which the Police Service Commission should be set up. This should be considered in due course by the Federation Government in consultation with its professional advisers, in the light of the circumstances of the Emergency then prevailing. There are, however, strong grounds in favour of synchronising action with that taken for the rest of the public service.

23. In accordance with the recommendations which we have made later in this report for dealing with premature retirement, the compensation scheme applicable to the public service as a whole should be applied to the police force as soon as the Police Service Commission is set up.

24. We considered the question of the Malayanisation of the police force, to the extent that it was possible to do so in advance of the findings of the Committee which is now at work on the problem in Malaya. In general we agree that for the purposes of the police force such a policy should be effected:-


 * (a) by controlling entry into the force, according to present practice;


 * (b) as regards personnel already in the force, by observing the normal service principles for promotion and by relying for increased opportunities for promotion of Malayan Officers on the operation of the scheme for premature retirement set out later in the report.

25. In the final stage a fully self-governing Federation of Malaya will be responsible for external defence as for all other functions of government. We have agreed, however, that at that time there shall be an agreement between Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and the Government of a fully self-governing Federation making provision for defence requirements and mutual assistance in defence matters.

26. The Government of the Federation of Malaya will afford to Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom the right to maintain in the Federation the forces necessary for the fulfilment of Commonwealth and international obligations; and Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom will undertake to assist the Government of the Federation in the external defence of its territory. Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom will continue to be afforded facilities needed in the Federation for the maintenance and support of these forces; they will include the Commonwealth Strategic Reserve, which would remain in the Federation. Provision will be made for consultation by Her Majesty's Government with the Federation Government in regard to the exercise of their rights under the Treaty.

27. We agree that the details of this Treaty should be studied and worked out by a Working Party in the Federation to be set up as soon as possible consisting of a number of representatives of Her Majesty's Government on the one hand and the same number of representatives of the Conference of Rulers and the Federation Government on the ether. We consider that the Commissioner General for the (31813)