1982 Ed.]
Police (Discipline) Regulations
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[Subsidiary]
(2) A gazetted officer may require an inspector or junior police officer to pay to the Government in full or in part-
(a) the cost of repairing or replacing any article of clothing, equipment or property whatsoever entrusted to the inspector or junior police officer in his capacity as police officer and lost or damaged by him;
(b) the cost of repairing or replacing any Government property lost or damaged by him; or
(c) the compensation paid, ex gratia or otherwise, by the Government to any person in respect of the loss or damage of that person's property by the inspector or junior police officer,
in each case only if the loss or damage has resulted from the junior police officer's or inspector's neglect or fault and the amount ordered to be paid does not exceed his salary for one month.
(3) For the purpose of enabling due inquiry to be made as to whether any police officer should be required to pay any amount under paragraph (2), affording him due opportunity to make representations and enabling any requirement under that paragraph to be appealed against and reviewed, Parts II and III shall apply mutatis mutandis to and in respect of such a requirement as they apply to and in respect of a finding of guilty of an offence under regulation 3(2) and an award of punishment.
29A. (1) A police officer of the rank of sergeant or above may seize and detain any property which he reasonably suspects to be the property of a police officer that may be required for the purpose of proving a disciplinary offence.
(2) Any property seized and detained under paragraph (1) and which is not admitted in evidence as an exhibit in disciplinary proceedings shall-
(a) if the owner thereof is not known, be forfeited and disposed of in accordance with paragraph (3) or (4) as the case may be; and
(b) if the owner thereof is known, be returned to the owner.
(3) Any property seized and detained under this regulation the ownership of which is not known shall be disposed of in such manner as the Commissioner may determine and, if sold, after the deduction of expenses necessarily incurred in the sale, the proceeds of sale (if any) shall be paid into the Police Welfare Fund.
(4) Any money seized and detained under this regulation the owner of which is not known shall be paid into the Police Welfare Fund.
29B. (1) An appropriate tribunal may, in addition to any award made in any proceedings, order the forfeiture of any property admitted in evidence as an exhibit.
Seizure and detention of property required as exhibit. L.N. 305/82.
Disposal of exhibits. L.N. 305/82.
1982 Ed.]
Police (Discipline) Regulations
[CAP. 232
A 21
[Subsidiary]
(2) A gazetted officer may require an inspector or junior police officer to pay to the Government in full or in part-
(a) the cost of repairing or replacing any article of clothing, equipment or property whatsoever entrusted to the inspector or junior police officer in his capacity as police officer and lost or damaged by him;
(b) the cost of repairing or replacing any Government
property lost or damaged by him; or
(c) the compensation paid, ex gratia or otherwise. by the Government to any person in respect of the loss or damage of that person's property by the inspector or junior police officer,
in each case only if the loss or damage has resulted from the junior police officer's or inspector's neglect or fault and the amount ordered to be paid does not exceed his salary for one month.
(3) For the purpose of enabling due inquiry to be made as to whether any police officer should be required to pay any amount under paragraph (2), affording him due opportunity to make repre- sentations and enabling any requirement under that paragraph to be appealed against and reviewed, Parts II and III shall apply mutatis mutandis to and in respect of such a requirement as they apply to and in respect of a finding of guilty of an offence under regulation 3(2) and an award of punishment.
29A. (1) A police officer of the rank of sergeant or above may seize and detain any property which he reasonably suspects to be the property of a police officer that may be required for the purpose of proving a disciplinary offence.
(2) Any property seized and detained under paragraph (1) and which is not admitted in evidence as an exhibit in disciplinary proceedings shall-
(a) if the owner thereof is not known, be forfeited and dis- posed of in accordance with paragraph (3) or (4) as the case may be; and
(b) if the owner thereof is known, be returned to the owner.
(3) Any property seized and detained under this regulation the ownership of which is not known shall be disposed of in such manner as the Commissioner may determine and, if sold, after the deduction of expenses necessarily incurred in the sale, the proceeds of sale (if any) shall be paid into the Police Welfare Fund.
(4) Any money seized and detained under this regulation the owner of which is not known shall be paid into the Police Welfare Fund.
29B. (1) An appropriate tribunal may, in addition to any award made in any proceedings, order the forfeiture of any property admitted in evidence as an exhibit.
Seizure and detention of
property required
as exhibit. L.N. 305 82.
Disposal of exhibits.
L.N. 305 82.
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