Duties of police officers to enforce provisions of this Act

(1) It shall be the duty of every police officer to ensure compliance with the provisions of this Act or any rule, regulation or order made thereunder and, for that purpose, such police officer may– (a) warn persons, who from ignorance fail to comply with any of . the provisions of this Act or of the rules, regulations or orders made thereunder; (b) require any person, acting or about to act contrary to any of the provisions of this Act or of the rules, regulations or orders made thereunder, to desist from so doing; (c) subject to the provisions of sub-sections (2) and (3), arrest any person contravening any of the provisions of this Act or of the rules, regulations or orders made thereunder, where such contravention is an offence punishable under this Act; and (d) seize any object used, or about to be, used, in ‘contravening or in contravention of the provisions of this Act or the rules, regulations or orders made thereunder, where such contravention is an offence punishable under this Act. (2) A police officer shall not arrest any person under clause (c) of sub- section (1) without a warrant issued by a Magistrate, unless such person— (a) has contravened any regulation made under Section 28 for regulating traffic and for preservation of order in public places; (b) has contravened any order or notification made under Sections 29, 30 or 32; (c) commits in the presence of such police officer offences punishable under Section 84 or sub-section (1) of Section 95 or clause (a), (b) or (c) of Section 96 or sub-section (2) of Section 99 only in respect of cor,travention of any order made under Section 33 or 34; (d) commits in his presence in any street or public place any non- congizable offence punishable under this Act or any of . the rules or regulations made thereunder, if such person– (i) after being warned by the police officer, persists in committing such offence; or (ii) refuses to accompany the police officer to a police station on being required so to do. (3) The Commissioner or any other police officer, specially empowered in this behalf by the Director General of Police, may arrest without warrant by a Magistrate any person who has committed an offence under Section 77.