The Superintendents' Association of the Hong Kong Police Force (SPA) represents the interests of serving Superintendents, Senior Superintendents and Chief Superintendents of Police on matters relating to the Grade Structure Review, Annual Pay Adjustment, and other contractual issues.

The Association provides a channel of communication with the Standing Committee on Disciplined Services Salaries and Conditions of Service (“SCDS”), Force Management and Civil Service Bureau through various meetings of the SCDS, Senior Consultative Committee and the Police Force Council.

In 2008 in a Grade Structure review (GSR) on the Police , the first such review since 1988 ( Rennie Committee) the SPA and other Police associations in the Police Force Council Staff Side have submitted their recommendations on ways to resolve the deficiencies relating to the career structure and incremental scales of the Police Pay Scale (PPS). On 27th November 2008 the SCDS submitted the GSR report to the Administration. The Police Force Council has in February submitted comments on this review in GSR Paper 2/2009 (revised) and has outlined areas of the GSr report that can be agreed, things that need to be adjusted and areas that were simply not covered in the Report. A response from the Secretary for the Civil Service is awaited.

Police officers in Hong Kong are in a Pay Dispute with the Administration on both the tentative results of the 2009 Pay Trend Survey and lack of progress on the GSR..

The Police Force Council Staff Side is faced with challenging issues in protracted negotiations with the Hong Kong Government on a reasonable and fair pay deal and is seeking first the implementation of the Grade Structure Review retrospective to 27th November 2008 ahead of the 2009 Pay Adjustment.

The Staff Side seeks early action by the Administration to adequately tackle morale issues and stuctural deficiencies in the career structure of the Police Force.

The SPA aims to provide officers with an independent and reasonable Police Pay scale PPS recognizing and compensating officers for their contribution and professional uniqueness in Hong Kong.

The Staff Side considers there is broad support for a well motivated Police force supported by a proper career structure. We will continue to press the SAR government for discussions to achieve a fair and reasonable outcome to the GSR. We appreciate that with the Administration this is an itrinsically tough and in our view an unnecessarily slow process but one that is essential to quality policing of Hong Kong.

The Police hold a unique position in our community to maintain stability and assure the rule of law , where there must be universal access to professional police services.

The reality is that the Administration in Hong Kong has not acted with sufficient urgency on the issue of the GSR and has allowed police career structure to become outdated.

Police Pay has been unnecessarily and successively cut in 2002, 2004 and 2005. Those cuts that were legislated have had a damaging affect on police morale. Staff opinion surveys in 2004 and 2007 show sifgnificantly low satisfaction with officers own morale with respect to their employment and the HKSAR administration in Civil Service Bureau. The opinion surveys , conducted for the Police by HK University, highlight police morale as one of the ten poor rating areas that requires urgent consideration.

Chairman SPA

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