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Duties of police force.

Police Force.

9. The duties of the police force shall be to take lawful measures for-

(a) preserving the public peace;

(b) preventing and detecting crimes and offences; (c) preventing injury to life and property;

(d) apprehending all persons whom it is lawful to apprehend and for whose apprehension sufficient grounds exist;

(e) regulating processions and assemblies in public

places or places of public resort;

(f) controlling traffic upon public thoroughfares and

removing obstructions therefrom;

(g) preserving order in public places and places of public resort, at public meetings and in assemblies for public amusements, for which purpose any police officer on duty shall have free admission to all such places and meetings and assemblies while open to any of the public;

(h) assisting in carrying out any revenue, excise, sanitary, conservancy, quarantine, immigration and alien registration laws;

(i) assisting in preserving order in the waters of the Colony and in enforcing port and maritime regula- tion therein;

(j) executing summonses, subpoenas, warrants, commit- ments and other process issued by the courts; (k) exhibiting informations and conducting prosecu-

tions;

(1) protecting unclaimed and lost property and finding

the owners thereof;

(m) taking charge of and impounding stray animals; (n) assisting in the protection of life and property at

fires;

(0) protecting public property from loss or injury; (p) attending the criminal courts and, if specially ordered, the civil courts and keeping order therein;

(q) escorting and guarding prisoners;

(r) executing such other duties as may by law be

imposed on a police officer.

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