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Police Regulations, Bengal. CHAPTER 1 Police Regulations, Bengal. CHAPTER 1. Organization. 1. In these Regulations, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context— (i) the word ―Superintendent‖ means Superintendent of Police and includes an Additional Superintendent and any officer, not below the rank of Inspector, temporarily discharging the duties of the Superintendent of Police when the latter is incapacitated or absent from Headquarters; (ii) the word ―officers‖ includes men; (iii) the words ―Subordinate police officer‖ mean an officer below the rank of deputy Superintendent of Police; (iv) the words ―Unarmed Police‖ mean subordinate police officers who are not in the Eastern Frontier Rifles or in the Special Armed Force; (v) the words ―Reserve Office‖ mean that branch of a Superintendent‘s office that is located in the Police Lines (vide regulation 892) ; and the words ―Superintendent‘s office‖ mean the remainder of his office; (vi) the words ―Armed Inspector‖ mean the Inspector in charge of the Special Armed Force and the Reserve office; (vii) the words ―Reserve Officer‖ mean the senior Sub-Inspector employed on clerical duties in the Reserve office; (viii) the words ―escort commander‖ mean the officer in charge of an escort; (ix) the words ―Court officer‖ mean the officer in charge of the Court police office; (x) the words ―Office Inspector‖ mean the Inspector attached to the Superintendent‘s office; lA. The expression ―Provincial Government‖ mean the Governor acting or not acting in his discretion, and exercising or not exercising his individual judgment, according to the provision in that behalf made by and under the Government of India Act, 1935 [vide section 3 (43 a) of the General Clauses Act, 1897 (X of I 897)]. Special reference is drawn to section 56 of the Government of India Act, 1935. 2. The province of Bengal excluding the city and suburbs of Calcutta General forms a general police district as defined in section 1 of the Police Act, Police 1861 (V of 1861), with the exception of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, District. which have been constituted a separate general police district by the Chittagong Hill Tracts Regulation, 1900 (Regulation I of 1900). 3. The Regulations deal only with the Bengal Police. The Eastern application. Frontier Rifles (Bengal Battalion) are governed, by the Eastern Frontier Rifles Regulations. 4. The province is divided into the following police administrative areas:— (i) the Range, consisting of a group of districts; (ii) the District, which is normally divided into sub-divisions. Railway Police districts are not normally so divided; (iii) the Sub-division, containing one or more police circles; (iv) the Circle consisting of a group of police-stations; (v) the Police-station, which is divided into union. The police station as defined in section 4(1) (s) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, is the unit of investigation. Outposts exist in certain police stations, as subordinate police posts, but they are not investigating centers. 5. The subordinate police posts referred to in regulation 4(v) (i) the outpost, established in a rural area of a police-station for any special reason, such as remoteness or difficulty of access from. the police-station; (ii) the town outpost, established at a convenient point in a municipal area for the facility of town patrols. 6. Police officers stationed in Bengal may be— (i) superior administrative officers, viz., the Inspector-General or a Deputy Inspector-General ; or they may be attached to — (ii) the District Police; (iii) the Railway Police; (iv) the Police Training College; (v) the Criminal Investigation Department, which includes the Intelligence Branch ; or (vi) the Inspector-General‘s staff. 7. (a) The administration of the police throughout the general police district is, under section 4 of the Police Act, 1861, vested in the Inspector-General. The areas and posts shown in regulations 4 and 5 are controlled by officers as follows: — (i) The Range—a Deputy Inspector-General. (ii) The District—e Superintendent. In certain districts he is assisted by one or more Additional, Assistant or Deputy Superintendents. There are also Superintendents in charge of Railway Police districts. (iii) The Subdivision—a Sub divisional Police Officer, who may be either an Assistant or a Deputy Superintendent. Sub-divisional Police Officers are posted only to important subdivisions. (iv) The Circle—an Inspector. (v) The Police-station——a Sub-Inspector. (vi) The Outpost (land or floating)—an Assistant Sub-Inspector. (vii) The Town outpost—a head constable. (b) Officers of the ranks mentioned in (i) to (iv) above are known as ―Gazetted officers‖. Note. —In every district there may be, in addition to Circle Inspectors, all or any of the following Inspectors: — An Inspector In charge of the Court office. An Inspector In charge of the Town Police. (iii) An Inspector In charge of the Special Armed Force and the Reserve office at district Headquarters. (An Inspector may also be employed at other stations where there is a detachment of the emergency force.) (iv) An inspector employed in the District Intelligence Branch. (v) An Inspector employed in the Detective Department. (vi) An Inspector employed in the Superintendent‘s office. In a Railway Police district there may be, in addition to Circle Inspectors an Inspector (1) In charge of the court staff and (2) In charge of the platform staff. 8. A table showing all ranks of police officers in order of precedence is given in Appendix I. 9. (a) The Criminal Investigation Department is administered by a Deputy Inspector-General, whose special duties are described in Chapter IX of the Regulations. (b) The control of the Police Training College vests in the Principal, wbo is of the rank of Superintendent. The Police Training College Manual defines the special duties of the post. (c) The Inspector-General has as staff two Superintendents who hold the title of Assistant Inspector-General. 10. (a) No alteration in the Jurisdiction or the number of administrative areas shall be made without the orders of the Provincial government, except that the Inspector-General may alter the distribution of police-stations between circles in the same sub-division. (b) The procedure to be observed in proposing alterations in the constitution, site or nomenclature of police-stations is described in Appendix II. 11. (a) The Inspector-General is competent to sanction the permanent establishment of subordinate posts, provided that if any increase in personnel is involved he shall obtain the prior sanction of the Provincial Government. (b) Subject to the condition that no extra expense is involved, temporary outposts may be established by a Superintendent without reference to the Deputy Inspector-General. When, however, it is necessary to hire accommodation, the previous sanction of the Deputy Inspector- General for the extra expenditure shall be obtained. Superintendents shall submit to the Deputy Inspector-General on the 1st April each year a statement showing the number of, and the period for which such posts were created with brief reasons in each case. 12. The force allotted to each district is organised broadly to provide staff for police-stations (including subordinate police posts), Courts, Town Police, Special Armed Force and special posts, such as the District Intelligence Branch, Detective Department (where such exist) and certain posts involving clerical duties. Details are given in each case in the appropriate chapter. CHAPTER II Relations with other departments. Relations of police officers with other servants of the Crown, local authorities and the public. 13. (a) The Commissioner as the local head of the administration, shall exercise supervision and control over the action of the District Magistrate in police matters. (b) Any order received from the Commissioner either direct or through the District Magistrate shall be promptly executed by the Superintendent, who shall, however, report it through the Deputy Inspector-General of the Range to the Inspector-general if it is of an unusual nature. 14. (a) The Deputy Inspector-General of a Range shall keep in close touch with Commissioners and District Magistrates in regard to the maintenance of peace and the prevention and detection of crime in their respective charges, and shall do all in his power to establish harmonious co- operation between the police and the magistracy. (b) He shall ordinarily communicate with the Commissioner by demi-official or unofticial notes and with District Magistrates through Superintendents but he shall make a point of having personal discussions with them at intervals, e.g., when he visits their Headquarters. 15. (a) The Superintendent is the immediate head of the police force of the district and is responsible for all matters concerning its internal economy and management and for its efficiency and discipline. He is also responsible, subject to the general control of the District Magistrate, for the criminal administration of the district, and for the proper performance by officers subordinate to him of all preventive and executive duties. (b) The District Magistrate has no authority to interfere in the internal organisation and discipline of the police force, but it is his duty to bring to the notice of the Superintendent all cases in which the conduct and qualifications of a police officer affect the general administration of his district. (c) The District Magistrate may call for the papers relating to the conduct or character of any police officer of his district and may send them on to the Deputy Inspector-General of the Range for the information of the Inspector-General and Commissioner. He may direct an enquiry to be made into any case of misconduct of a police officer. The Superintendent shall submit to the District Magistrate the papers regarding all serious cases of misconduct and of cases likely to affect the relations of the police with the public. (d) All orders of the District Magistrate relating to the police except those passed in his judicial capacity, shall be addressed to the Superintendent, or in the event of his absence from Headquarters to the officer In charge during his absence.
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