CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868 — Page 174

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pointed at the Cost of Individuals.

A Statement

of the Num

ber of Per-

sons belong- ing to the Police Force ally laid be

to be aunu-

fore Par- liament.

Exemption from Turn- pike Tolls.

Police Con- stables to attend the Magistrates.

Summonses and War-

rants in Cri-

2° & 3o VICTORIÆ, Cap.47.

of any Person or Persons showing the Necessity thereof, to appoint and swear any additional Number of Constables to keep the Peace at any Place within the Metropolitan Police District, at the Charge of the Person or Persons by whom the Application shall be made, but subject to the Orders of the said Commissioners, and for such Time as they shall think fit; and every such Constable shall have all the Powers, Privileges, and Duties of other Constables belonging to the Metropolitan Police Force: Provided always, that shall be lawful for the Person or Persons on whose Application such Appointment shall have been made, upon giving One Calendar Month's Notice in Writing to the Commissioners, to require that the Constables so appointed shall be discontinued, and thereupon the Commissioners shall discontinue such additional Constables; and all Monies received on account of any such additional Constables shall be paid to the Receiver of the Metropolitan Police, and shall be accounted for by him in like Manner as other Monies receivable by him.

IX. And be it enacted, That, in addition to the Returns relating to the Metropolitan Police which by former Acts are required to be laid annually before Parliament, there shall also be laid annually before both Houses of Parliament, together with such Returns, a Statement of the total Number of Persons belonging to the Metro- politan Police Force on the First Day of January of the Year in which each Return is laid before Parliament, distinguishing the Num- ber of Persons in each Class or Rank of such Force, with the Salaries and Allowances enjoyed by each Class.

X. And be it enacted, That no Toll shall be demanded or taken on any Turnpike Road or Bridge for any Horse or Police Van passing along such Road or Bridge in the Service of the Metropolitan Police, provided that the Rider of such Horse or Driver of such Van shall have his Dress and Accoutrements according to the Regulations of the Police Force at the Time of claiming the Exemption; and every Person who shall fraudulently claim or take the Benefit of the Exemp- tion from Toll herein contained, not being lawfully entitled thereunto, shall for every such Offence be liable to a Penalty not more than Five Pounds; and in all such Cases the Proof of Exemption shall be upon the Person claiming the same.

XI. And be it enacted, That the said Commissioners of Police shall take care that a sufficient Number of Constables belonging to the Metropolitan Police Force shall be in attendance upon every Magis- trate sitting at any Police Court within the Limits of the Metropolitan Police District, and at every other Criminal Court holden within the said District, for the Purpose of executing such Summonses and Warrants as may be directed to them.

XII. And be it enacted, That after the passing of this Act all Summonses and Warrants to be issued in any Criminal Proceeding within the Metropolitan Police District, or by any Magistrate within the said District, shall be served and executed by a Constable of the be executed Metropolitan Police Force, and by none other.

mínal Pro- ceedings to

by them.

2° & 3° VICTORIE, Cap.47.

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XIII. And be it enacted, That when any Warrant shall be directed How War- or delivered to any of the said Constables, unless it be necessary for rauts issued the due Execution thereof that such Warrant be executed without Constables Delay, the Constable shall deliver the same to the Superintendent or may be exe- other his superior Officer belonging to the Metropolitan Police Force, cuted. who shall appoint, by Endorsement thereon, One or more Constables to execute the same; and every Coustable whose Name shall be so endorsed shall have the same Powers, Privileges, and Protections for and in the Execution of such Warrant as if the same had been originally directed to him or them by Name.

XIV. And be it enacted, That every Constable who shall be guilty Penalty on of any Neglect or Violation of Duty in his Office of Constable shall Constables be liable to a Penalty not more than Ten Pounds, the Amount of of Duty.

for Neglect which Penalty may be deducted from any Salary then due to such Offender, or, in the Discretion of the Magistrate, may be imprisoned, with or without Hard Labour, for any Time not more than One Calendar Month.

Leave or

XV. And be it enacted, That no Constable belonging to the Constables Metropolitan Police Force shall be at liberty to resign his Office, or not to resign to withdraw himself from the Duties thereof, unless expressly allowed without so to do, in Writing, by the Superintendent under whom he may be Notice. placed, or unless he shall give to such Superintendent One Calendar Month's Notice of his Intention; and every Constable who shall so resign or withdraw himself without such Leave or Notice shall be liable to forfeit all Arrears of Pay then due to him or to a Penalty not more than Five Pounds.

ments.

XVI. And be it enacted, That every Constable belonging to the Constables Metropolitan Police Force who shall be dismissed from or shall cease dismissed to to hold and exercise his Office, and who shall not forthwith deliver deliver up over all the Clothing, Accoutrements, Appointments, and other Neces- Accoutre- saries which may have been supplied to him for the Execution of his Duty, to the Superintendent, or to such Person and at such Time and Place as shall be directed by the said Superintendent, shall be liable to Imprisonment, with or without Hard Labour, for any Time not exceeding One Calendar Month; and it shall be lawful for" any Justice of the Peace to issue his Warrant to search for and seize to the Use of Her Majesty all the Clothing, Accoutrements, Appointments, and other Necessaries which shall not be so delivered over, wherever the same may be found.

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Possession

XVII. And be it enacted, That every Person not being a Constable Penalty for of the Metropolitan Police Force, who shall have in his Possession unlawful Article being Part of the Clothing, Accoutrements, or Appointments of Accoutre- supplied to any such Constable, and who shall not be able satisfactorily ments, or to account for his Possession thereof, or who shall put on the Dress or for assuming take the Name, Designation, or Character of any Person appointed as the Dress of such Constable for the Purpose of thereby obtaining Admission into Constables. any House or other Place, or of doing or procuring to be done any Act which such Person would not be entitled to do or procure to he done of his own Authority, or for any other unlawful Purpose, shall,

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