section 44
Police duty vehicles to be distinctive, exclusive and identifiable
The Kerala Police Act, 2011(1) The State Police Ch1ef may, With the pnor approval of the Government, specify the colour, markmgs, equ1pments and accessones to be fitted to every police duty vehicle keepmg m v1ew the need that such vehicles shall be distmctive, exclusive and easily Identifiable. (2) All police duty vehicles With suc-h specified appearance shall respond to any emergency call for help from any person and be u~ed for g1vmg Pohce assistance which IS reasonable and appropnate to the occasiOn unlc:ss 1t IS engaged m some other emergent or Important duty at that time. (3) No person, other than a Police Officer actmg for officja! purpose shall keep, except for artistic or scientific purpose, any vehicle m such a condl!Ion as to create an ImpressiOn that the sa1d vehicle 1~ a Fohce vehicle and an Officer authonsed by the State Pohce Ch1ef may decide whether a particular vehicle creates such an ImpressiOn that such vehicle appears hke a pohce duty vehicle to an ordmary observer standmg at a d1~tance of hundred meters away from the vehicle
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