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posted to the watch and ward staff, except in cases of emergency, as such employment
must detract from the efficiency of the watch and ward system.
(2) The success of a system of watch and ward in a town or city will depend on (a) the discipline of the men on beat the patrol duties;
(b) the extent to which the men have been instructed in their duties;
(c) the amount of supervision exercised by supervisor officers. Superintendents of
Police must therefore arrange that, in addition to the standing orders referred to
in the above rule, head constables and constables are frequently questioned so
as to ensure that the training they have received in the lines school and at the Police Training School is not forgotten but put into practice. Each constable on
beat or patrol duty should continually have in mind the specific duties required
of him.
Rule 21.35
21.35. Central Investigating Agencies. - (1) In order to assist the Superintendent of
Police and his Supervising staff in co-ordinating the preventive and detective work of the
District Police and in order to act as clearing house for criminal intelligence for the use
of investigating officers in the district and in other districts a Central Intelligence Agency
shall be established in each district. This body shall be formed from the establishment
sanctioned for the district for the prevention and detection of crime. Officers of different
ranks shall be selected for service in the C.I.A. in the light of their intelligence, efficiency
and practical experience of preventive and detective work in a police station. In order to
promote co-operation and the inter-change of ideas between the C.I.A. and police station
staff no officer shall ordinarily remain more than two years at a time in the C.I.A. No officer shall be appointed to the C.I.A. who is not well educated and who has not an
unblemished reputation for honesty.
The functions of the Central Investigation Agency are :(a) The preparation of crime maps relating to offences against property classified
under the methods employed by the criminals.
(b) The receipt, consideration and filing according to classification, of information
received from investigating officers.
(c) The comparing of the data collected under (a) and (b) and the communication
of any deduction therefrom to the investigation officers concerned.
(d) The preparation of a crime index of cases from the materials collected under (a)
and (b) classified according to: (1) methods employed by the criminals, and
(2) various clues provided by the criminals such as nick-names used; special
clothing worn; peculiarities of the culprits noticed by witnesses; special weapons used; special signals used etc. etc.
(e) The preparation of a crime index of criminals. This shall normally be in two
parts(i) an index of names of known criminals classified according to their methods of operating;
(ii) an index of known criminals classified according to their peculiarities of
appearance, gait, speech, nicknames, etc.
(f) The provision of information by means of which the Superintendent of Police
may be assisted in controlling the crime of his district, forestalling outbreaks of
crime and directing preventive operations.
(g) The publication of weekly Criminal Intelligence Gazette.
(h) To co-ordinate and guide the efforts of police station staff throughout the district
in securing the arrest of absconders and proclaimed offenders and in locating
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absentee bad characters, criminal tribesmen and other untraced persons and to
maintain close co-operations with the C.I.As of other districts in this work.
(i) When information received from records or otherwise indicates that a series of cases, whether in the jurisdictions of one or of several police stations, is the work of the same criminal or of a gang to co- ordinate or,
under the orders of the Superintendent of Police, direct the investigation of
such cases.
The primary function of a Central Intelligence Agency is to assist station house officers
and their staffs. The A.C.I.A. can only afford assistance effectively, if it is continuously
supplied by Station House Officers with detailed information about the movements of bad
characters and peculiar features of cases. Information so received shall be examined,
compared, and classified by the C.I.A. Information of general use of Station House Officers and neighbouring districts and deductions from it shall be disseminated as speedily
as possible through the C.I. Gazette or, in case of urgency, by special circular. Information which is of value to a particular police station only or clues in local cases shall be
communicated immediately to the particular officers or officer concerned, who shall be
held responsible for making proper use of it.
The C.I.A. shall be in charge of one of the District Inspectors. A room shall be provided
for it in the office of the Superintendent of Police which is conveniently situated in relation to the rooms of the Superintendent of Police and Gazetted Officers. These officers
and their readers and officers of the prosecuting branch and all Station House Officers and
investigating officers visiting headquarters shall make a practice of visiting the C.I.A.
room regularly, studying the records of crime and criminals which are concerting measures for the better control of criminals through the agency of the records and machinery
of the district Police.
All investigating officers in the district shall be encouraged to visit the room where the
Central Investigating Agency functions when they visit headquarters and to discuss their
cases with the personnel of the Central Investigating Agency.
[(2) The instructions concerning the examination of scenes of all criminal cases and the
particulars required to be submitted in the case of all such offences to the Central Investigation Agency are given in Appendix 21.35(2) and the various forms to be used are
detailed below. One copy shall be submitted to the District Crime Records Bureau of the
District concerned for record :(1) Crime Details Forms;
(2) Arrest/Court Surrender Form;
(3) Property Search and Seizure Form.]1
Rule 21.36
21.36. Range mobile traffic patrols. Duties of. - For each range of the province at
least one mobile traffic patrol, consisting of an inspector, a sub-inspector and two constables, has been sanctioned for the control and checking of traffic on the roads of the range.
These patrols shall be under the direct control of Deputy Inspectors-General who shall
be responsible for so directing their movements and activities as to obtain the maximum
effect.
The duties of these patrols shall be :(a) The checking at irregular intervals on different roads of all motor-licences to
drive and to ply for hire. At these inspections of licences the officer in-charge
1. Substituted vide Punjab Govt. Notification No. G.S.R. 20 -/C.A.V./1861/S. 46/Amd. (23)/2003,
dated 6.3.2003.