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appropriate tribunal or substitute therefor any finding at which the appropriate tribunal could have arrived upon the evidence including any additional evidence adduced upon the appeal and may in any event confirm or remit any punishment imposed by an appropriate tribunal or may substitute therefor any punishment which such tribunal is entitled by this section to impose.
(b) Upon any such appeal the Commissioner may if he thinks fit permit the appellant to appear before him in person in support of his appeal and may in such case hear such additional evidence as may be provided for by police regulations.
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29 of 1950, s.11.
29. (1) The Commissioner may punish any inspector who is found guilty by an appropriate tribunal of any of the disciplinary offences specified in subsection (1) of section 28 by reprimand, severe reprimand, with or without deferment or stoppage of increment or forfeiture of not more than one month's pay. The findings of the appropriate tribunal and the punishment awarded by the Commissioner shall be promulgated in headquarter orders and shall be communicated to the inspector by the Commissioner.
(2) Any such inspector aggrieved by such punishment may within fourteen days from the promulgation of the punishment in headquarter orders appeal to the Governor by petition containing any representations relevant to the exercise of the Governor's discretion under subsection (4).
(3) If an inspector has pleaded guilty of any of the disciplinary offences specified in subsection (1) of section 28 and such plea has been accepted or if he has been found guilty of any of such disciplinary offences by an appropriate tribunal then if it appears to the Commissioner that the offence is of such an aggravated character as to merit dismissal he shall forward to the Governor a report containing-
(a) in the case of a plea of guilty which has been accepted, the charge, plea and any statement in mitigation; or
(b) in any other case, the record of the proceedings; and
(c) in any event, a record of the officer's service, the Commissioner's recommendation and his reasons for not making an award.
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