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Metropolitan Police. The area which is under the control of the Metropolitan Police is the County of London (but not the City), the County of Middlesex, Cryodon, West Ham, and such places within 15 miles of Charing Cross as the King by Order in Council has included. [(English) Metropolitan Police Act, 1829, ss. 2 and 34 and Schedule, and Metropolitan Police Act, 1839, ss. 2 and 5]The (English) Metropolitan Police Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 33), gives power to appoint an additional assistant commissioner (s. 1), amends the age for compulsory retirement for senior officers (s. 2), makes amendments as to the constitution of the Police Federation (s. 3), gives power to appoint constables for a fixed period (s. 4).The numerous Acts dealing with the Metropolitan Police are collected in Chitty's Statutes, tits. 'Police (Metropolis)' and 'Police (London),' and also in an official Metropolitan Police Guide. See also the Police Regulations of 20th August, 1920, as amended by the Police Regula...
Police
Police [fr., Gk., a city], the regulation and govern-ment of a country or city; the constabulary of a locality. The police forces now consist of Country, Borough (these may be consolidated, see 3 & 4 Vict. c. 88, s. 14, and 19 & 20 Vict. c. 69, s. 20), Metro-politan, City of London, and River Forces, e.g., Tyne, Manchester Ship Canal, Mersey and Wear; and Railway Police. As to the liability of a local authority for a tort committed by a member of its police force, see Stanbury v. Exeter Corporation, (1905) 2 KB 838. See CONSTABLE; METRO-POLITAN POLICE; and Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Police' and 'Police (Metropolis).'...
Metropolitan Police Magistrates
Metropolitan Police Magistrates. There are 25 salaried Metropolitan Police Magistrates (maximum 27) appointed by the Crown to execute the duties of justices of the peace within the Metropolitan Police District. The qualification for this office is having practised as a barrister for at least seven years. Any such magistrate can do alone any act which may be legally done by more than one justice of the peace. there is also special jurisdiction to settle disputes about wages for labour on the Thames, to deal with cases of oppressive distraint for small rents, to order delivery to the owner of goods unlawfully detained up to 15l. value, and to give possession of deserted premises to landlords (see Ston's Justices' Manual). The senior metropolitan Magistrate is ex-officio a justice for Berkshire (Indictable Offences Act, 1848). The Metropolitan Police Courts are: Bow Street, Clerkenwell, Marylebone, Marlborough Street, Westminster, Old Street, Thames, Tower Bridge, Lambeth, Greenwich, Wool...
Officer in charge of a police station
Officer in charge of a police station, includes, when the officer in charge of the police station is absent from the station-house or unable from illness or other cause to perform his duties, the police officer present at the station-house who is next in rank to such officer and is above the rank of constable or, when, the State Government so directs, any other police officer so present. [Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), s. 2(o)]The sub-Inspector and other senior officers were away on other duty. A clerk attached to the station an 'officer in charge of the police station', Pyli Yaccob v. State, AIR 1953 Trav 466....
police
police po·liced po·lic·ing : to control, regulate, or keep in order esp. as an official duty [ the area] n pl: police 1 : the control and regulation of affairs affecting the order and welfare of a political unit and its citizens 2 a : the department of a government or other institution that maintains order and safety and enforces laws b : police force c pl : the members of a police force ...
Delhi Special Police Establishment
Delhi Special Police Establishment, means the Delhi Special Police Establishment constituted under sub-s. (1) of s. 2 of the Delhi Special Public Establishment Act, 1946. [Central Vigilance Commission Act, 2003 (45 of 2003), s. 2(c)]Means the Delhi Special Police Establishment constituted under sub-s. (1) of s. 2 of the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act, 1946 (25 of 1946)....
Eminent domain and police powers-distinction
Eminent domain and police powers-distinction, the concepts of eminent domain and police powers are borrowed from American law. In the exercise of its eminent domain power the State may take any property from the owner and may appropriate it for public purposes. The police and eminent domain powers are essentially distinct. Under the police power many restrictions may be imposed and the property may even be destroyed without compensation being given, whereas under the power of eminent domain, the property may be appropriated to public use on payment of compensation only, Deputy Commissioner and Collector v. Durganath Sarma, AIR 1968 SC 394 (399): (1968) 1 SCR 561....
Police officer
Police officer, the expression 'police officer' used in s. 523, Criminal Procedure Code, is to be construed strictly. A Customs Officer cannot be regarded as police officer, Assistant Collector of Customs v. Tilak Raj Shiv Dayal, AIR 1969 Del 301 (303). [Cr. P.C., 1898, s. 523]A Customs Officer conducting an inquiry under s. 107 or 108 of the Act is not a Police Officer and the person against whom the inquiry is made is not an accused and the statement made by such a person in that inquiry 'is not a statement made by a person accused of an offence', Percy Rustomji Basta v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 197 SC 1087 (1091); See also Illias v. Collector of Customs, AIR 1970 SC 1065. (Evidence Act, 1872, s. 25)...
Police reforms
Police reforms, is to secure professional indepen-dence for the police to function truly and efficiently as an impartial agent of the law of the land and, at the same time, to enable the government to oversee the police performance to ensure its conformity to the law. A supervisory mechanism without scope for illegal, irregular or mala fide interference with police functions has to be devised, Prakash Singh v. Union of India, (2006) 8 SCC 1....
Police duties
Police duties, the expression 'police duties' will include all the functions of the police in connection with the purpose of the Act and in the special context of the Act they will include the detection, prevention and investigation of offences and the other duties which have been specially imposed on them under the Act, Delhi Administration v. Ram Singh, AIR 1962 SC 63 (66): (1962) 2 SCR 694. [(English) Suppression of Immoral Traffic in Women and Girls Act, 1956, s. 13(1) (3) and 2(i)]...
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