Police Establishment

(1) Every committee shall, unless relieved of this obligation by the State Government, maintain a sufficient police establishment for police requirements within municipal limits and for the performance of the duties imposed on it by this Act. (2) The establishment maintained under sub-section (1) shall consist either of a body of part of watchmen or of the general police force under the State Government with the meaning of section 2 of Act V of 1861, or partly of one and partly of the other, as the State Government may determine; and shall consist of such number of officers and men who shall respectively receive such pay, leave, allowances, gratuities and pensions as the committee may from time to time after consultation with the District Magistrate and the inspector- General of Police, and subject to the final decision of the State Government, direct.