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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)]...


Special police officer

Special police officer, means a police officer appointed by or on behalf of the State Government to be incharge of police duties within a specified area for the purpose of this Act. [Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 (104 of 1956), s. 2(i)]...


Ghatwali tenure

Ghatwali tenure, Ghatwali tenures originated dur-ing the Moghul period, that although the services included police duties, they were in their origin just as much of a military as a civil character and that the tenure could be granted by the ruling power directly to Ghatwal who was to render the services so as to establish a direct privity between the ruling power and the Ghatwal or it could be granted by the Zamindar for the protection of his Zamindari or for enabling him to render the police and military services to the ruling power which he was bound to do under the terms of the grant of Zamindari to him, Rudreswari Prasad Sinha v. Rani Probhabati, AIR 1952 SC 1 (4): 1952 SCR 64....


duty

duty pl: du·ties [Anglo-French deuté indebtedness, obligation, from deu owing, due, from Old French see due ] 1 : tasks, service, or functions that arise from one's position [performing a police officer's duties] ;also : a period of being on duty see also jury duty 2 : an obligation assumed (as by contract) or imposed by law to conduct oneself in conformance with a certain standard or to act in a particular way [ of good faith] [a to warn of danger] see also public duty doctrine, special duty doctrine duty of can·dor [-kan-dər] : a duty obligating directors of a corporation to disclose all material facts known to them about a transaction when they are seeking shareholder approval duty of care : a duty to use due care toward others in order to protect them from unnecessary risk of harm duty of fair representation : a duty obligating a labor union to represent the employees in its collective bargaining unit fairly and in good faith duty of loy·al·t...


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....


peace officer

peace officer : a civil officer (as a police officer) whose duty it is to preserve the public peace ...


Wardmote

Wardmote, a Court held in every ward in London.The wardmote inquest has power to inquire into and present all defaults concerning the watch and police doing their duty, to see that engines, etc., are provided against fire, that persons selling ale and beer be honest and suffer no disorders, nor permit gaming, etc., that they sell in lawful measures; searches are to be made for beggars, vagrants, and idle persons, etc., who shall be punished....


In discharge of his duty

In discharge of his duty, In view of the words 'by otherwise abusing his position' read along with the words 'in the discharge of his duty' in s. 5(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947, an offence under that section requires that the public servant should misconduct himself in the discharge of his duty, State of Ajmer v. Shivji Lal, AIR 1959 SC 847: (1959) Supp (2) SCR 739. [Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947, s. 5(1)(d)]In discharge of his duty, can have only one meaning and that the officer has a duty to discharge and is discharging it at the particular time. They cannot mean that the officer is acting 'under colour' of his office. He must be acting at the time as a police officer and in the particular manner discharging a duty incumbent upon him as a police officer, Queen Empress v. Dalip, 18 All 246....


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...


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 ...


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