Chapter VII Chapter VII

Subject to the approval of the state government, The Director General of Police shall enact such rule, regulation or issue order for the following which shall not be contrary to this Act or any other Act in effect at any time:-\n\na) Prevention and investigation of offence.\n\nb) Regulation and inspection of work performed by the police organisation or Police officer.\n\nc) Distribution of arms, ammunition, accoutrements, uniforms and other items and decides the quantity.\n\nd) To assign duties to officers of all ranks and grade and decide the manner and condition subject to which they shall exercise their power and discharge their duties.\n\ne) To regulate the collection and transmission of intelligence and information.\n\nf) Determine the record, register and Performa to be maintained and details to be prepared by various police units and officers.\n\ng) To make police more skilful and prevent abuse of power and neglect of duty by them.

The Government shall make rule for the regulation, control and discipline of police.\n Provided that by the time a new Police Law under this Act is enacted, the existing Bihar and Orissa Arms Police Act, 1933 and Police Law and existing articles, regulations, notifications order and circulars shall remain in effect as if enacted in this Act.

Every officer, not on leave or under suspension, shall, for all purposes of this Act, be deemed to be always on duty and may be posted to any part of the state at any time.

Any police officer, unless properly authorised, shall not leave his duty or place of appointment or posting.\n\nExplanation:-Any officer on being authorised leave does not report on his duty without any valid reason after completion of such leave, shall, under the meaning of this article, be deemed to have neglected himself from the duties of his post.

Under this Act, no police officer shall hold any other employment or office of profit other than his duty.