Penalty for neglect of duty etc

Penalty for neglect of duty etc.

1. (1) Any police officer who shall be guilty of any violation of duty or willful breach or neglect of any rule or regulation or lawful order made by a competent authority, or who shall withdraw from the duties of his office without permission or who, being absent on leave, shall fail, without reasonable cause, to report himself for duty on the expiration of such leave, or who shall engage without authority in any employment other than his police duty, or who shall be guilty of cowardice, or who shall be guilty of any unwarrated personal violence to any person in his custody, shall, on conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a penalty not exceeding three months' pay, or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a period not exceeding three months, or to both.