THE DHAKA METROPOLITAN POLICE ORDINANCE, 1976

THE DHAKA METROPOLITAN POLICE ORDINANCE, 1976

(ORDINANCE NO. III OF 1976).[20th January, 1976]

An Ordinance to provide for the constitution of a separate police-force for the Dhaka Metropolitan Area and for the regulation thereof. 1

WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the constitution of a separate police-force for the Dhaka Metropolitan Area and for the regulation thereof and for matters connected therewith or ancillary thereto;

NOW, THEREFORE, in pursuance of the Proclamations of the 20th August, 1975, and 8th November, 1975, and in exercise of all powers enabling him in that behalf, the President is pleased to make and promulgate the following Ordinance:-

CHAPTER I

PRELIMINARY

Short title, extent and commencement

1. (1) This Ordinance may be called the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Ordinance,1976.

(2) It extends to the Dhaka Metropolitan Area.

(3) It shall come into force on such date as the Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, appoint.

Definitions

2. In this Ordinance, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context, -

(a) “cattle” includes elephants, horses, asses, mules, sheep, goats and swine;

(b) “Code” means the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (V of 1898);

(d) “Force” means the Dhaka Metropolitan Police constituted under this Ordinance;

(e) “Inspector-General” means the Inspector-General of Police appointed under the Police Act, 1861 (V of 1861);

(f) “place” includes a building, tent, booth, enclosure or any other erection, whether permanent or temporary;

(g) “place of public amusement” means any place where music, singing, dancing or any game or diversion, or the means of carrying on the same, is provided and to which the public are admitted, either on payment of money or with the intention that money may be collected from those admitted, and includes a race course, circus, theatre, cinema, music-hall, billiard-room, gymnasium, swimming pool or dancing-hall;

(h) “place of public entertainment” means any place in which the public are admitted and where any kind of food, drink or intoxicating drug is supplied for consumption, and includes a lodging-house, boarding house, residential hotel, refreshment room, eating house, tea shop, liquor house, hotel, restaurant, ganja shop, bhang shop and opium shop;

(i) “Police Commissioner”, “Additional Police Commissioner”, “Deputy Police Commissioner” and “Assistant Police Commissioner” shall mean respectively the Police Commissioner, an Additional Police Commissioner, a Deputy Police Commissioner and an Assistant Police Commissioner appointed under section 7;

(j) “police-officer” means any member of the Force appointed under this Ordinance and includes an auxiliary police-officer appointed under section 10 or any member of any other police-force discharging, for the time being, any duties under this Ordinance;

(k) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Ordinance;

(l) “public place” includes a bank of a river or canal, a jetty, public building or monument and the precincts thereof, and all places accessible to the public for drawing water, washing or bathing or for the purpose of recreation;

(m) “street” includes any road, lane, footway, square, court, alley or passage whether a thoroughfare or not, to which the public have, temporarily or permanently, a right of access;

2[ (n) “subordinate officer” means any of the officers of the Force mentioned in section 7A;]

(o) “superior officer” means the Police Commissioner, and Additional Police Commissioner, a Deputy Police Commissioner and an Assistant Police Commissioner;

(p) “vehicle” means any carriage, cart, van, truck, handcart, bicycle, tricycle, motor cycle, rickshaw or any other wheeled conveyance of any description capable of being used on the street.

Act V of 1861 not to apply

3. The Police Act, 1861 (V of 1861), shall not apply to the Dhaka Metropolitan Area.

Jurisdiction of District Magistrate barred in certain cases

4. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code, the Dhaka Metropolitan Area shall not, unless otherwise provided by or under this Ordinance, be under the charge of any District Magistrate for any of the purposes of this Ordinance.

CHAPTER II

CONSTITUTION AND ORGANISATION OF THE DHAKA METROPOLITAN POLICE

Constitution of the Force

5. (1) There shall be a separate police-force for the Dhaka Metropolitan Area to be called the Dhaka Metropolitan Police.

(2) The Force shall consist of such number of officers in the several ranks and shall be constituted in such manner and shall have such organisation as the Government may from time to time direct.

Superintendence of the Force

6. The superintendence of the Force shall vest in the Government.

Police Commissioner, Additional Police Commissioners, Deputy Police Commissioners and Assistant Police Commissioners

7. (1) The Government shall appoint a Police Commissioner who shall, subject to the control of the Inspector-General, exercise such powers and perform such duties as are or may be provided by or under this Ordinance.

(2) The Government may appoint one or more Additional Police Commissioners, Deputy Police Commissioners and Assistant Police Commissioners who shall assist the Police Commissioner in the exercise of his powers and performance of his duties and shall exercise such of the powers and perform such of the duties of the Police Commissioner as may be delegated to them by the Police Commissioner by general or special order.

(3) The Police Commissioner, an Additional Police Commissioner, a Deputy Police Commissioner and an Assistant Police Commissioner shall be appointed in such manner and on such terms and conditions as the Government may from time to time determine.

Classes and ranks of subordinate officers

3[ 7A. There may be all or any of the following classes of subordinate officers of the Force, who shall take rank in the order mentioned, namely:-

(a) Inspector,

(b) Sub-Inspector,

(d) Assistant Sub-Inspector,

(e) Head Constable,

(f) Naik,

(g) Constable.]

Appointment of subordinate officers

4[ 8. (1) The appointment of Inspectors shall be made by the Police Commissioner and the appointment of all other subordinate officers shall be made by such superior officer not below the rank of Deputy Police Commissioner as the Police Commissioner may, by order in writing, specify in this behalf.

(2) The appointment of subordinate officers shall be made in such manner and on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed.

(3) Every subordinate officer shall, on appointment, receive a certificate in the form set out in Schedule II under the seal and signature of the Police Commissioner or of the superior officer making the appointment.

(4) A certificate of appointment shall be cancelled whenever the person named therein ceases to belong to the Force and shall remain inoperative during the period of his suspension from the Force.]

Transfer

5[ 9. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Ordinance or in the Police Act, 1861 (V of 1861), or in any other law for the time being in force, the Government or the Inspector-General may transfer a police-officer appointed under this Ordinance to the police-force constituted under the Police Act, 1861 (V of 1861), and a police-officer appointed under the Police Act, 1861 (V of 1861), to the police-force constituted under this Ordinance, and on such transfer the provisions of the law under which the police-force to which the police-officer is transferred has been constituted shall mutatis mutandis apply to him:

Provided that no police-officer so transferred shall be dismissed, removed or reduced in rank by an authority subordinate to that by which he was appointed.]

Auxiliary Police-Officer

10. (1) The Police Commissioner may appoint any person to be an auxiliary police-officer to assist the Force on any occasion when he is of opinion that the Force is in need of such assistance.

(2) Every auxiliary police-officer shall, on appointment,-

(a) receive a certificate in the form set out in Schedule II;

(b) have the same powers and immunities, be liable to perform the same duties, be amenable to the same penalties and be subject to the same authority as any other police-officer.

CHAPTER III

ADMINISTRATION OF THE FORCE

Power of Police Commissioner to make orders for administration of the Force

11. The Police Commissioner may, from time to time, make such orders, not inconsistent with any provision of this Ordinance, as he deems expedient relating to-

(a) the inspection of the Force;

(b) the collection and communication by police-officers of information and intelligence;

(d) the places of residence of members of the Force;

(e) the institution, management and regulation of any fund for any purpose connected with administration and welfare of the Force;

(f) the duties to be performed by police-officers of different ranks and the manner in which and the conditions subject to which police-officers shall exercise their powers and perform their duties;

(g) the efficiency and discipline of the Force;

(h) the prevention of abuse of powers and neglect of duties by police-officers.

Punishment to Subordinate Officers

12. (1) Subject to the provisions of Article 135 of the Constitution and such rules as may be made by the Government in this behalf, the Police Commissioner 6[ * * *] may, by order in writing stating reasons therefor, award any one or more of the following punishments to any subordinate officer whom he finds to be guilty of disobedience, breach of discipline, misconduct, corruption, neglect of duty or remissness in discharge of any duty, or of any act rendering him unfit for the discharge of his duty, namely:-

(a) dismissal from service;

(b) removal from service;

(d) reduction in rank or grade;

(e) stoppage of promotion;

(f) forfeiture of seniority for not more than one year;

(g) forfeiture of pay and allowances for not exceeding one month;

(h) forfeiture of increment in pay;

(i) fine to any amount not exceeding one month's pay;

(j) confinement to quarter-guard for a term not exceeding thirty days;

(k) confinement to police lines for a term not exceeding thirty days with extra drill, extra guard, fatigue or other duty;

(l) censure.

7[ (1A) The power of punishment conferred on the Police Commissioner by sub-section (1) may also be exercisable, in the case of any subordinate officer other than an Inspector, by any superior officer not below the rank of Deputy Police Commissioner.]

(2) The Police Commissioner, or any other superior officer authorised by him in this behalf, may place under suspension any subordinate officer against whom action under sub-section (1) is required to be taken or against whom any inquiry is required to be made.

(3) Nothing in sub-section (1) shall affect any police-officer's liability to a criminal prosecution or any offence with which he may be charged.

(4) [Omitted by section 6 of the Dacca Metropolitan Police (Amendment) Ordinance, 1976 (Ordinance No. LXIX of 1976).]

Police-officers to be deemed always on duty

13. (1) Every police-officer not on leave or under suspension shall be deemed to be always on duty.

(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Ordinance, every police-officer may, if the Inspector-General so directs, at any time, be employed on police duty in any place outside the Metropolitan Area.

Resignation of Subordinate Officers

14. No subordinate officer shall resign his office or withdraw himself from the duties thereof except with the written permission of the Police Commissioner.

CHAPTER IV

POWERS AND DUTIES OF POLICE-OFFICERS

General duties of Police-officers

15. It shall be the duty of every police-officer-

(a) promptly to serve every summons and obey and execute every warrant or other order lawfully issued to him by competent authority, and to endeavour by all lawful means to give effect to the lawful commands of his superiors;

(b) to the best of his ability to obtain intelligence concerning the commission of cognizable offences or designs to commit such offences, and to lay such information and to take such other steps, consistent with law and the orders of his superiors, as are best calculated to bring offenders to justice or to prevent the commission of cognizable offences, or the commission of non-cognizable offences within his view;

(d) to apprehend without unreasonable delay all persons whom he is legally authorised to apprehend and for whose apprehension there is sufficient reason;

(e) to aid another police-officer, when called on by him or in case of need in the discharge of his duty, in such ways as would be lawful and reasonable on the part of the officer aided;

(f) to discharge such duties as are imposed upon him by any law for the time being in force.

Duties of police-officers towards the public and arrested persons

16. It shall be the duty of every police-officer-

(a) to afford every assistance within his power to disabled or helpless persons in the streets, and to take charge of intoxicated persons and of lunatics at large who appear to be dangerous or incapable of taking care of themselves;

(b) to take prompt measures to procure necessary help for any person under arrest or in custody who is wounded or sick, and, while guarding or conducting any such person, to have due regard to his condition;

(d) in conducting searches, to refrain from needless rudeness and the causing of unnecessary annoyance;

(e) in dealing with women and children, to act with strict regard to decency and with reasonable gentleness;

(f) to use his best endeavours to prevent any loss or damage by fire;

(g) to use his endeavours to avert any accident or danger to the public.

Duties of police-officers to keep order in streets, etc

17. It shall be the duty of every police-officer-

(a) to regulate and control the traffic in the streets;

(b) to prevent constructions in the streets;

(c) to the best of his ability to prevent the infraction of any rule, regulation or order made under this Ordinance or any other law for the time being in force for observance by the public in or near the streets;

(d) to keep order in the streets, and at and within public bathing, washing and landing places, fairs and all other places of public resort, and in the neighbourhood of places of public worship during the time of public worship;

(e) to regulate resort to public bathing, washing and landing places, to prevent overcrowding thereat and in public ferry-boats and, to the best of his ability, to prevent the infraction of any rule, regulation or order lawfully made for observance by the public at any such place or on any such boat.

Persons bound to conform to reasonable directions given by police-officers

18. All persons shall be bound to conform to the reasonable directions of a police-officer given in fulfilment of any of his duties under this Ordinance.

Power of Police-officers to enforce their directives

19. A police-officer may restrain or remove any person resisting or refusing or omitting to conform to any direction referred to in section 18 and may either take such person before a Magistrate or, in trivial cases, release him when the occasion is past.

Power of police-officers to lay information, etc

8[ 19A. A police-officer may lay any information before a Magistrate and apply for any legal process as may by law issue against any person committing an offence.]

Power of police-officers to search suspected persons in streets, etc

20. When in a street or a place of public resort a person has possession or apparent possession of any article which a police-officer in good faith suspects to be stolen property such police-officer may search for and examine the same and may require an account thereof, and, should the account given by the possessor be manifestly false or suspicious, may detain such article and report the facts to a Magistrate, who shall thereon proceed according to sections 523 and 525 of the Code.

Enforcement of directions, notifications, public notices and orders given, issued or made under sections 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 or 32

21. Whenever a direction under section 27 has been given, or a notification under section 28 has been promulgated, or an order under section 29, 31 or 32 has been made, or a public notice under section 30 has been issued, it shall be lawful for a police-officer to require any person acting or about to act contrary thereto to desist or to abstain from so doing, and, in case of refusal or disobedience, to arrest the person offending, and such police-officer may also seize any object or thing used or about to be used in contravention of such direction, notification, order or public notice, and the thing seized shall be disposed of according to the order of the Magistrate.

Charge of unclaimed property and disposal thereof

22. (1) It shall be the duty of every police-officer to take temporary charge-

(a) of all unclaimed property found by, or made over to him; and

(b) of all property found lying in any public place or street, if the owner or person in charge of such property, on being directed to remove the same, refuses or omits to do so.

(2) A police-officer taking charge of any property under sub-section (1) shall hand over the property to the officer-in-charge of the police station concerned and report the matter to the Police Commissioner forthwith.

(3) If such property appears to have been left by a person who has died intestate, and not to be under five thousand taka in value, the Police Commissioner shall communicate with the Administrator-General, with a view to its being dealt with under the Administrator-General's Act, 1913 (III of 1913), or any other law for the time being in force.

(4) In every other case the Police Commissioner shall issue a proclamation specifying the articles of which such property consists, and requiring any person who may have a claim thereto to appear before him or some other officer whom he appoints in this behalf and establish his claim within three months from the date of such proclamation.

(5) If the property, or any part thereof, is subject to speedy and natural decay, or consists of livestock, or if the property appears to be of a value of less than five hundred taka, it may forthwith be sold by auction under the orders of the Police Commissioner and the net proceeds of such sale shall be dealt with in the same manner as is hereinafter provided for the disposal of the said property.

(6) The Police Commissioner shall, on being satisfied of the title of the claimant to the possession of any property referred to in sub-section (4), order the same to be delivered to him, after deduction or payment of the expenses properly incurred by the police in the seizure and detention thereof.

(7) The Police Commissioner may at his discretion, before making any order under sub-section (6), take such security as he may think proper from the person to whom the said property is to be delivered; and nothing hereinbefore contained shall affect the right of any person to recover the whole or any part of such property from the person to whom it may have been delivered pursuant to such order.

(8) If no person establishes his claim to such property within the period prescribed in sub-section (4), it shall be at the disposal of the Government and the property, or such part thereof as has not already been sold under sub-section (5), may be sold by auction under orders of the Police Commissioner.

Impounding of cattle

23. It shall be the duty of every police-officer to seize and take to any public pound for confinement therein any cattle found straying in any street or trespassing upon any public property.

Powers as to inspection, search and seizure of false weights and measures

24. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 153 of the Code, any police-officer generally or specially authorised by the Police Commissioner in this behalf may without warrant enter any shop or premises for the purpose of inspecting or searching for any weights or measures or instruments for weighing or measuring used or kept therein.

(2) If such police-officer finds in such shop or premises weights, measures or instruments for weighing or measuring which he has reason to believe are false, he may seize the same and shall forthwith give information of such seizure to the Police Commissioner, and if such weights, measures or instruments are found by the Police Commissioner to be false, they shall be destroyed.

(3) Weights and measures purporting to be of the same denomination as weights and measures, the standards whereof are kept under any law for the time being in force, shall, if they do not correspond with the said standards, be deemed to be false within the meaning of this section.

CHAPTER V

POLICE REGULATIONS

Power of Police Commissioner to make regulations

25. (1) The Police Commissioner may make regulations, not inconsistent with any provision of this Ordinance, for-

(a) licensing and controlling persons offering themselves for employment at jetties, railway stations and landing places for the carriage of passengers' baggages, and fixing and providing for the enforcement of a scale of charges for the labour of such persons when so employed;

(b) regulating traffic of all kinds in streets and public places, and the use of streets and public places by persons riding, driving, cycling, walking or leading or accompanying cattle, so as to prevent danger, obstruction or inconvenience to the public;

(c) regulating the conditions under which vehicles may remain standing in streets and public places, and the use of streets as halting places for vehicles or cattle;

(d) prescribing the number and position of lights to be used on vehicles in streets and the hours between which such lights shall be used;

(e) prescribing certain hours of the day during which cattle shall not be driven along the streets, or along certain specified streets, except subject to such conditions as he may specify in that behalf;

(f) regulating and controlling the manner and mode of conveying timber, scaffold poles, ladders, iron girders, beams, bars, boilers or other unwieldy articles through the streets, and the route and hours for such conveyance;

(g) licensing, controlling or, in order to prevent the obstruction, inconvenience or annoyance to the residents or passengers in the vicinity, prohibiting the playing of music, the beating of drums or other instruments and the blowing or sounding of horns or other noisy instruments in or near streets or public places;

(h) regulating the conduct, behaviour or action of persons constituting assemblies and processions on or along the streets and prescribing, in the case of processions, the routes by which, the order in which and the time at which the same may pass;

(i) prohibiting the hanging or placing of any cord or pole across a street or the making of a projection or structure so as to obstruct traffic or the free access of light and air;

(j) prohibiting or controlling the placing of building materials or other articles or the fastening or detention of any animal in any street or public place;

(k) licensing, controlling or, in order to prevent obstruction, inconvenience or annoyance to the residents or passengers in the vicinity, prohibiting-

(i) the illumination of streets and public places and the exteriors of buildings abutting thereon by persons other than employees of Government or of a local authority duly authorised in that behalf ;

(ii) the blasting of rock or making excavations in or near streets or public places;

(iii) the using of a loudspeaker in or near any public place or in any place of public entertainment;

(l) closing certain streets or places temporarily, in cases of danger from ruinous buildings or other cause;

(m) guarding against injury to person and property in the construction, repair and demolition of buildings, platforms and other structures from which danger may arise to the passenger, neighbour or public;

(n) prohibiting or regulating the setting fire to or burning any straw or other matter or lighting a bonfire of letting off or throwing a firework in or upon a street or building or the putting up of any post or other thing on the side of or across a street for the purpose of affixing thereto lamps or other contrivances for illumination;

(o) licensing or controlling places of public amusement or entertainment;

(p) regulating the means of entrance and exit at places of public amusement, entertainment or assembly, and providing for the maintenance of public safety and the prevention of disturbance thereat;

(q) licensing or controlling the musical, dancing, mimetic, theatrical or other performances for public amusement, and regulating, in the interest of public order, decency or morality, the employment of artists and the conduct of the artists and audience at such performances and the hours during which and the places at which such performances may be given;

(r) regulating or prohibiting the sale of any ticket or issue of any pass for admission to a place of public amusement;

(s) fixing the fees to be charged for any licence or permission required under this Ordinance.

(2) The power of making regulations under this section shall be subject to the condition of the regulations being made after previous publication, and every regulation made under this section shall be published in the official Gazette and in the locality affected thereby by affixing copies thereof in conspicuous places near to the building, structure, work or place, as the case may be, to which the same specially relates or by advertising the same in such local newspapers as the Police Commissioner may deem fit:

Provided that any such regulation may be made without previous publication if the Police Commissioner is satisfied that circumstances exist which render it necessary that such regulation should be brought into force at once.

Police Commissioner may authorise erection of barriers on streets

26. (1) The Police Commissioner may, whenever in his opinion such action is necessary, authorise such police-officer as he thinks fit to erect barriers on any street for the purpose of stopping temporarily vehicles driven on such street and satisfy himself that the provisions of any law for the time being in force have not been contravened in respect of any such vehicle or by the driver or person in charge of such vehicle.

(2) The Police Commissioner may make such orders as he deems fit for regulating the use of such barriers.

Power of Police Commissioner and other police-officers to give directions to the public

27. The Police Commissioner, or any police-officer authorised by him in this behalf, may, from time to time as occasion may arise, give all such directions, not inconsistent with any regulation made under section 25, either orally or in writing, as may be necessary to-

(a) secure the orderly conduct of persons constituting processions or assemblies in streets;

(b) prescribe the routes by which and the times at which any such procession may or may not pass;

(c) prevent constructions on the occasion of all processions and assemblies and in the neighbourhood of all places of worship during the time of worship, and in all cases when any street or public place or place of public resort may be thronged or liable to be obstructed;

(d) keep order in all streets, public bathing, washing and landing places and all other public places or places of public resort;

(e) regulate and control the playing of music or singing, the beating of drums and other instruments, and the blowing or sounding of horns or other noisy instruments, in or near any street or public place;

(f) regulate and control the use of loudspeakers in any street or in or near any public place or in any place of public entertainment.

Power of Police Commissioner to prohibit certain acts for prevention of disorder

28. (1) The Police Commissioner may, whenever and for such time as he considers necessary for the preservation of public peace or safety, by notification publicly promulgated or addressed to individuals, prohibit at any place-

(a) the carrying of arms, swords, spears, guns, knives, sticks or lathis, or any other article, which is capable of being used for causing physical violence;

(b) the carrying of any corrosive substance or explosives;

(c) the carrying, collection and preparation of stones or other missiles or instruments or means of casting or impelling missiles;

(d) the exhibition of persons, corpses, figures or effigies;

(e) the public utterance of cries, singing of songs or playing of music;

(f) the delivery of public harangues, the use of gestures or mimetic representations, and the preparation, exhibition or dissemination of pictures, symbols, placards or any other object or thing which may, in his opinion, offend against decency or morality or undermine the security of the State.

(2) If any person goes armed with any such article or carries any corrosive substance or explosive or missile in contravention of such prohibition, he may be disarmed or the corrosive substance or explosive or missile may be seized from him by any police-officer, and the article, corrosive substance, explosive or missile so seized shall be forfeited to the Government.

Power of Police Commissioner to prohibit assembly or procession

29. The Police Commissioner may, by order in writing, prohibit any assembly or procession whenever and for so long as he considers such prohibition to be necessary for the preservation of the public peace or safety:

Provided that no such prohibition shall remain in force for more than thirty days without the sanction of the Government.

Power of Police Commissioner to reserve any street or public place for any public purpose

30. The Police Commissioner may, by public notice, temporarily reserve for any public purpose any street or public place and prohibit persons from entering the area so reserved except under such conditions as may be specified by him.

Power of Police Commissioner to prohibit, restrict or regulate use of music, etc

31. If, in the opinion of the Police Commissioner, it is necessary so to do for the purpose of preventing annoyance, disturbance, discomfort or injury or risk of annoyance, disturbance, discomfort or injury to the public or to any persons who dwell or occupy property in the vicinity, he may, by order in writing, prohibit, restrict, regulate or impose conditions on-

(a) the use or continuance in any area, premises or vehicles of-

(i) any vocal or instrumental music;

(ii) microphone, loudspeaker or other instruments for amplifying music or other sound;

(iii) sounds caused by the playing, beating, clashing, blowing or use in any manner whatsoever of any instrument, appliance or apparatus on contrivance which is capable of producing or reproducing sound; or

(b) the carrying on in any premises of any trade, avocation or operation resulting in or attended with noise.

Orders for prevention of riot, etc

32. (1) In order to prevent or suppress any riot or grave disturbance of peace, the Police Commissioner may, by order in writing, temporarily close or take possession of any building or place and exclude all or any persons therefrom, or allow access thereto to such persons only and on such terms as he may deem expedient.

(2) If the lawful occupier of such building or place suffers substantial loss or injury by reason of the action taken under sub-section (1), he shall be entitled, on application made to the Police Commissioner within one month from the date of such action, to receive reasonable compensation for such loss or injury, unless such action was, in the opinion of the Police Commissioner, rendered necessary either by the use to which such building or place was put or intended to be put or by the misconduct of persons having access thereto.

(3) In the event of any dispute in any case under sub-section (2), the decision of the Government shall be final as to the amount, if any, to be paid, and as to the person to whom it is to be paid.

Police to provide against disorder, etc, at places of amusement and public meetings

33. (1) For the purpose of preventing serious disorder or breach of the law or manifest an imminent danger to the persons assembled at any place of public amusement or at any assembly or meeting to which the public are invited or which is open to the public, the police-officer of the highest rank present at such place, assembly or meeting may give such directions as to the mode of admission of the public to, and for securing the peaceful and orderly conduct of the proceedings and the maintenance of the public safety at such place, assembly or meeting as he thinks necessary.

(2) The police shall have free access to every such place, assembly or meeting for the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of sub-section (1) and to any direction given thereunder.

Stray dogs to be destroyed

34. The Police Commissioner may, from time to time, by public notice, proclaim that any dog found, during such period as may be specified in the said notice, straying in the streets or in any public place may be destroyed, and any dog so found within such period may be destroyed accordingly.

Suffering or unfit animals to be destroyed

35. Any police-officer who in any street or public place finds any animal so diseased, or so severely injured, and in such a physical condition, that, in his opinion, it should be destroyed, shall, if the owner is absent or refuses to consent to the destruction of the animal at once summon the veterinary officer in charge of the area in which the animal is found and, if the veterinary officer certifies that the animal is so diseased or so severely injured, or in such a physical condition, that it is cruel to keep it alive, the police-officer may, without the consent of the owner, destroy the animal or cause it to be destroyed:

Provided that if in the opinion of the veterinary officer the animal can be removed from the place where it is found without causing it great suffering, he may direct the police-officer to remove the animal before it is destroyed from the place where it is found to such other place as he may think fit:

Provided further that when the animal is destroyed in any street or public place it shall, as far as possible, be screened from the public gaze while it is being destroyed.

CHAPTER VI

SPECIAL MEASURES FOR MAINTENANCE OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND ORDER

Employment of additional police on application

36. (1) The Police Commissioner may, on the application of any person, depute any additional number of police to keep the peace, preserve order or enforce any of the provisions of this Ordinance or any other law in respect of any particular class or classes of offences or to perform any other police duties at any place.

(2) Such additional police shall be employed at the cost of the person making the application, but shall be subject to the orders of the Police Commissioner and shall be employed for such period as the Police Commissioner may think necessary.

(3) If the person upon whose application such additional police are employed makes, at any time, a written request to the Police Commissioner for their withdrawal, he shall be relieved from the cost thereof at the ex

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