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(o) To give the Captain Superintendent of Police cower with the approval of the Governor in Council to make regulations for the government and discipline of the force.
(d) To remove doubts as to the effect of the
proclamation made under section 10 of the Special Police Reserve Ordinance, 1914, on the 3rd September, 1915.
The alteration in the title of the Force is effected by section 2 and section 11(1).
3. The question of discipline is dealt with in sections 3, 4 and 6. Hitherto, apart from certain disciplinary measures,
such as reprimand, reduction of rank and ordering of extra patrols, there was no means of enforcing discipline by punish- ment except by bringing the defaulter before a magistrate. In the case of trivial offences this involves unnecessary and undesirable publicity, which appears to have caused a certain amount of feeling among the men at one time, and which might be harmful to the interests of the Force. Probably most other police and military forces have some internal power of punishment for breach of discipline. Section 3(1) gives
the Captain Superintendent of Police, subject to the approval of the Governor in Council, power to make regulations for the government and discipline of the Force, and section 4 affirms the right which no doubt exists already of issuing the ordinary departmental orders, Sub-sections (2), (3), (4) and (5) of
section 3 provide for the punishment by the Captain Superintend-
ent