§ 21. Major Legge-Bourkeasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies how many former members of the Palestine Police Force are now unemployed; how many have been recruited for service in Malaya; and what is the nature of their duties.
Mr. Creech JonesThe records do not show how many of the former members of the Palestine Police Force are unemployed, since they are not required to report when they secure private employment either personally or through local offices of the Ministry of Labour and National Service. Of those who have been in touch with the Colonial Office or with the Palestine Police Office at 27, Victoria Street, whose purpose is to assist in this direction, 1,299, including 435 re-employed in Malaya, are known to have obtained employment in the Colonies and elsewhere and a further 514 are definitely under consideration for such employment. Of those re-employed in Malaya, the majority are for the present engaged in training special constables.