Duties of a Police officer.

64. It shall be the duty of every Police officer- ( a) promptly to serve every summons and obey and execute every wanant or other order lawfully issued to him competent authority, and to endeavour by all lawful means to give effect to the lawful commands of his superior: (b) to the best of his ability to obtain intelligence concerning the com- mission of congnizable offences or designs commit such offences, and to lay such information and to take such other steps, consistant with law and with the orders of his superiors as shall be best calculated to bring offenders to justice or to prevent the commission of cognizable and within his view of non-cognizable offences; (c) to prevent to the best of his ability the commission of public nuisances; I. This clause was substituted for the original clause (a) by the Gujarat Adaptation of Laws (State and Concurrent Subjects) Order, 1960. 2. Sub-section (12) was inserted by Born. of 1959, s. 23. H-2057-(12) Duties of a Police officer. Power to enter places of public resort. Power to search suspected persons in a street. Duties of Police officers towards the public. Police to regulate traffic, etc. in streets. (d) to apprehend without umeasonable delay all persons whom he is legally authorised to apprehend and for whose apprehension there is sufficient reason; (e) to aid another Police officer when called on by him or in case of need in the discharge of his duty, in such ways as would be lawful and reasonable on the part of the officer aided; (/) to discharge such duties as are imposed upon him by any law for the time being in force.