§ 73. Mr. Emrys Hughesasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will give details of the aspects of police work on which the British Police Advisory Mission in Saigon advise the South Vietnam Government.
§ Mr. M. StewartPolice training and procedure, civil disturbance control, and
1960–64 Oxford Cambridge Manchester Other Universities 1. Foreign Service … 733 (71) 496 (35) 35 (0) 634 (11) 2. Commonwealth Service … 1,204 (14) 822 (13) 106 (0) 1,511 (1) 1965 only Diplomatic Service … 106 (10) 77 (12) 3 (0) 133 (3) (i) Figures in brackets represent successful candidates. (ii) Recruitment to the Colonial Service ceased in 1961. The figures given are for recruitment to the Commonwealth Service; the total of applicants in this column is for the Home Civil Service from which Commonwealth candidates were selected. (iii) All the figures relate to direct entry from the various universities and do not include the supplementary overage competitions. Efforts are continually being made to widen the area of recruitment to the Diplomatic Service. Last year, members of the Diplomatic Service Administration visited nearly every university in the British Isles to talk about conditions in the Service and to meet potential candidates and university staff. Similar recruitment drives have taken place for many years. Visits of under-graduates from provincial universities (as well as from Oxford and Cambridge) to the Commonwealth Relations Office and the Foreign Office are arranged twice a year by the Treasury. These undergraduates spend several days working in departments, meeting officials and Ministers and have the opportunity to see what the work, at home, of the Diplomatic Service is like. It is intended next year to invite groups of university staff
158Wvarious police tasks in the civil aspects of counter insurgency, are among the matters on which the British Police Advisers are at present engaged.