1. Powers and status of Inspector General-cum-Director General of Police.— 

The Director-General is the head of the Police Department and the adviser of the Governor in Council on all questions of police administration. All orders from the Governor in Council to a member of the police force are issued through him, except in cases of urgency when copies of any orders issued direct to subordinate officers are sent to him. No police officer may correspond with the Governor in Council except through him, unless specially authorized by rule. As a matter of administrative routine he is concerned only with gazetted officers, the general allocation of staff and the general distribution of funds, complete responsibility in regard to_i the non-gazetted staff being delegated to Deputy Inspector-General, except in regard to the posting, transfer and grant of leave to inspectors in certain cities and stations and to the posting, transfer and promotion of the clerical staff, which can most conveniently be regulated by him.

SHORT NOTES

Presently Director General of Police (D.G. (P)) is the highest seat of State of U.P.. In year 1981 post of ADG of police was sanctioned. Several other posts of IGs were created in other cells of the department. Details of Director General, Additional Director General, Regional IGs of Zones, P.A.C. and Railways 

Director General  

ADDITIONAL INSPECTOR-GENERAL/ZONAL INSPECTOR GENERAL  

{1-A. Powers and responsibilities of Additional Inspector General of Police,--

The Additional Inspectors-General of Police will be the incharge and supervising officer of the region under them and will give appropriate guidance to the Deputy Inspectors-General of their region. Their duty/ powers in relation to the enmployees /officers of their region will be as under: '

(1) To transfer non-gazetted officers of the region under them. The inter-region transfer will be done at the Police Head Quarters level, as done earlier, but the procedure in respect to them will be that these orders will now be passed in accordance with the recommendation of the concerned Additional Inspector- General of Police ;

3 (2) To dispose of the representations, appeals, revisions and petitions of employees posted in the region under them ;

(3) To grant casual leave to the gazetted officer of the region under them, which was granted by the Inspector-General of Police till now;

(4) To make available their opinion, concerning the work of the gazetted officer of their region, to the Inspector-General of Police for annual entries. The Deputy Inspector-General will also be in these offices ;

(5) Such other work/acts/ functions thas that may be entrusted to them from time to time, by the Administration or the Inspector-General of Police.

DEPUTY INSPECTOR-GENERAL

2. Powers and responsibilities of Deputy Inspectors-General as the incharge of ranges.--

Certain Deputy Inspectors-General are incharge of ranges of districts. Each of them is responsible for the efficiency of the police in his range, and must see that a proper level of district administration is maintained. He must always be inclose touch with his Superintendents and be ready to aid, advise or control them. He must inspect the work of the Superintendent of each district at least once a year. and prepare an inspection report in the form prescribed. He need not, however, record observations under any of the printed headings of the form except VIII "Crime Working" and IX "Ceneral'" if everything is in order and no action is required, and should mention in his report only matters which can most suitably be entered there for the guidance of the district staff or the information of his successor. On completing his inspection. he will at once take all such action as his powers permit to remedy defects, and will refer to the Inspector-General grave defects or questions of principle with which he himself has not the power to deal.

SHORT NOTES

Deputy Inspector General of Police (Range)

(According to G.O. No. 9842/6-Po-l-97-150 (22) 97, Home (Police) Deptt, Sec-1, dtd. Jan. 28, 1998).

3. Duties of Deputy Inspector General of Police in his range.—

The Deputy Inspector-General is responsible for the general supervision of crime in his range; he must see that proper measures are taken to deal with serious outbreaks, and must effect co-operation between districts. For this purpose he must keep up registers of (1) dacoity. (2) murder, (3) robbery, (4) poisoning and (5) miscellaneous cases in Inspector-General's form No. 138. He will submit to the Inspector-General a fortnightly report of crime which will include any matters relating to his range of which he considers that the Inspector-General should be informed. To this will be attached a statement of dacoities giving very brief particulars of each case. He will forward to the Inspector General special reports of crime in exceptional case. Superintendents must report direct to the Inspector-General as well as to the Deputy Inspector-General matters of specially important character regarding which Government may require immediate information, e.g., serious breaches of the peace, collisions between Europeans and Indians and important matters of a political nature; but so far as possible, the Deputy Inspector-General will be the channel through which the Inspector-General will receive information. On receipt of district annual administration reports, the Deputy Inspector-General must prepare and submit to the Inspector-General a review for the whole of his range with a note on cases which deserve special mention in the provincial report.

The Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Education and Training will be responsible for supervision and co-operation of work in the Range Training Centres which he will inspect from time to time. Apart from this, he will keep in touch with the latest methods of training introduced elsewhere and adopt them for use in the Police Training Institutions.

He will also supervise training at the Police Training College, Moradabad the Armed Police Training Centre as well as the Police Motor Transport Workshop at Sitapur and the Wireless Station at Lucknow, all of which excepting the Police Motor Transport Workshop at Sitapur will remain under his administrative control. He will undertake the revisions of the various Police Training Manuals and draft manuals when necessary.

 DEPUTY INSPECTOR-GENERAL, GOVERNMENT RAILWAY POLICE

4. Powers of Assistant to the Inspector-General, Government Railway Police.—

The Assistant to the Inspector-General in-charge of the Government Railway Police has the powers, duties and responsibilities of a Range Deputy Inspector-General in regard to the railway police sections in his charge, except the power of dismissal of an Inspector or Sub-Inspector which vests in the Deputy Inspector-General of Police Headquarters and Railway.

SHORT NOTES

After 1969 A.LG. was the head of the Railway Police. In 1969 the Post of LG. was sanctioned for Railway Police in place of A.I.G. Presently A.D.G. is the Chief of the Railway Police. Two LG. and two D.I.G. working under A.D.G. as supporting officers. The Railway police in U.P. is divided into six (6) sectors. These Sectors are—Sector A (Hqr.—Agra), Sector B (Hqr. Lucknow), Sector C (Hqr. Gorakhpur), Sector D (Hqr. Allahabad), Sector E (Hqr. Moradabad) and Sector F (Hqr. Jhansi).

COMMISSIONER

5. Powers of Commissioner.—

The term 'Commissioner' wherever it occurs in the Police Regulations includes a Collector, or Deputy Commissioner incharge of a division.

The Commissioners of divisions exercise general power of supervision over the District Magistrates of their respective division in matters relating to the Police as in other branches of the administration. For their duties regarding the Annual Administration Report (see. paragraph 62 of the Office Manual).

DISTRICT MAGISTRATE

6.  Powers of District Magistrate of the district.—

The District Magistrate is the head of the criminal administration of the district, and in the capacity controls and directs the action of the police. He has special powers with reference to the allocation of village chaukidars in his district. He has departmental powers in connection with the punishment of village chaukidars; his approval is, necessary to the transfer of inspectors and officers incharge of police stations (paragraph 524) and he may recommend rewards and entries in service and character rolls (paragraph 296 of the Office Manual). Such part of the Superintendents' correspondence with the Inspector-General as relates to buildings, and as concerns or affects the general administration of the district by the District Magistrate as Chief Executive Officer, must pass through the office of the District Magistrate:

Provided that in the districts where the Collector/Deputy Commissioner is Collector / Deputy Commissioner incharge of the division, his functions in regard to the transfer of Inspectors and Officers-in-charge of police stations will be exercised by Additional District Magistrate (Executive).

7. Information to District Magistrate of all serious crimes and of any sudden increase in volume of crime.—

The District Magistrate should be promptly informed by the Superintendent of the occurrence of all serious crimes and of any sudden increase in the volume of crime generally and should receive a fortnightly review of the crime in the district, its localization and causes. Similar reviews of crime generally either fortnightly or monthly will be sent to the Deputy Inspector-General in accordance with range orders. The Superintendent should also keep the Magistrate informed of all events that are of importance from a police point of view, and should frequently seek an opportunity of discussing matters with him personally. When both officers are not at headquarters or on tour together frequent demi-official correspondence should take the place of oral discussion. If the Superintendent is on tour and the District Magistrate is at headquarters, the police officer-in-charge at headquarters should give the District Magistrate all important information which might otherwise not reach the Magistrate quickly enough through the Superintendent.

7-A. Powers of D.M. to ask the S.P. to institute an enquiry in case of any instance of inaction, corruption, harassment, abuse of authority and wrongful detention by police.—Whenever any instance of inaction, corruption, harrassment, abuse of authority and wrongful detention by the police comes to the notice of the District Magistrate, he shall have the authority to ask the Superintendent of Police to institute an enquiry promptly and report the result to him along with all relevant records and papers. If any member of the police force is found at fault as a result of the inquiry, the District Magistrate shall have the power to ask the Superintendent of Police to take disciplinary action against him. He will also advise the Superintendent of Police about the adequacy or otherwise of the punishment awarded as a result of the disciplinary proceedings. The District Magistrate and the Superintendent of Police shall jointly review every month all such complaints and the action taken thereon.

7-B. Whenever a situation likely to have a bearing on the general law and order situation arises in the district the superintendent of Police will immediately inform the District Magistrate by the quickest means available and seek his instructions in regard to the steps to be taken to meet the situation, unless circumstances make it impracticable to do so. Further action to meet the s..aation will be taken according to the instructions of and in close and continuous consultation with the guidance from the District Magistrate.)

8. Instructions to DM in the exercise of his power of control.—

The District Magistrate in the exercise of his power of control should avoid doing anything to weaken the Superintendent's authority. Differences of opinion should be adjusted privately and no friction between the two officers should be apparent.

9. Inspection of Police Stations by D.M.—

The District Magistrate should normally inspect each Police Station once during a financial year. However, in those districts in which an Additional District Magistrate (Executive) is posted the District Magistrate may entrust the inspections of less important police stations to him. The District Magistrate should also see that the Sub- Divisional Magistrates make at least one detailed inspection and one surprise inspection of each police station in their Sub-divisions, during a financial year. He must also impress on them that their duty is two-fold to support the police in enforcing law and order, and to prevent injustice. He may direct any of his subordinate Magistrates to inspect police stations, but third class Magistrates should not ordinarily be directed to inspect them unless it is necessary as part of their training. An inspection book with blank pages will be kept at every police station to be used by Magistrates. A summary of crime in Form No. 390 should be pasted on the inside of the cover of every such inspection book. This book must be sent to the Superintendent of Police whenever an inspection note is made in it and will be forwarded by him to the District Magistrate for information.

10. To obtain sanction of the DM to the expunction of a crime from the crime register.—

The sanction of the District Magistrate is necessary to the expunction of a crime from the crime register, except railway police cases, for the expunction of which the sanction of the Deputy Inspector- General of Police incharge of the railway police must be obtained.

10-A. In the district in which the Collector/Deputy Commissioner is Collector-in-charge or Deputy Commissioner-in-charge of the division, his functions under this paragraph will be exercised by the Additional District Magistrate (Executive).

11. The powers of a Superintendent in licensing and regulating prosecutions.—

The powers of a Superintendent or Assistant Superintendent under Section 30 of Act V of 1861, in licensing and regulating prosecutions, must be exercised subject to the control of the District Magistrate.

In most places where religious processions and public ceremonies such as the Moharram are permitted, the route and the procedure to be followed are fixed by custom of long standing or have been prescribed by competent authority. In such cases it is the duty of the police to see that order is kept, and that no deviations are made from the route and procedure hitherto followed or prescribed. If any section or individual member of the community decline to carry out their processions or ceremonies at the time and in the manner prescribed, they should be informed that they will not be allowed to carry them out after the prescribed time, by any other route, or in any other manner.

In special cases not provided for by established custom or existing orders, the police should apply for and follow the instructions of the District Magistrate or in his absence, of the Sub-divisional or other Magistrate empowered to pass an order under Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Where owing to the absence of a Magistrate, this is impossible, the officer-in-charge must use his own discretion, basing his action on previous practice so far as this can be ascertained.

 ASSISTANT AND DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENTS OF POLICE

17. Powers and Duties of Assistant and Deputy Superintendents of Police.—

Assistant and Deputy Superintendents may perform any of the Superintendent's work which he is not obliged by law or rule to do personally. They may make inquiries and recommendations even when they are not empowered to pass final orders. They should go on tour and make inspections. Their services should be used freely in the supervision and direction of important investigations. An officer who has obtained the certificate required by paragraph 528 must be placed in charge of part of the district under the Superintendent's control.

An Assistant Superintendent who has qualified for the charge of a district will hold charge of headquarters during the absence of the Superintendent. When no such officer is available, the senior gazetted officer-in length of service in the gazetted ranks will normally hold charge. If the Superintendent proposes a departure from the normal, a reference must be made to the Range Deputy Inspector-General.

When no gazetted officer is present at headquarters, the Superintendent should place incharge of his office one of the English-knowing Inspectors at headquarters.

Certain Assistant Superintendents and Deputy Superintendents of Police enumerated in paragraph 479 (f) are empowered, subject to certain restrictions (see paragraph 491), to perform the duties of a Superintendent of Police under Section 7 of the Police Act in so far as they relate to officers below the rank of Inspector.

Other Assistant Superintendents and Deputy Superintendents who have been confirmed in their appointments are empowered under certain restrictions to perform the duties of Superintendent of Police under Section 7 of the Police Act in so far as they relate to the suspension of police officers and to the award to police officers of the punishments specified in Section 7 (b) of the Act [see paragraph 479 (g)].

All Deputy Superintendents of Police are empowered to perform the duties of a Superintendent of Police under Sections 30 and 30-A of the Police Act.

All Assistant and Deputy Superintendents of Police officiating incharge of district shall, until exempted by the Deputy Inspector-General of their range, submit to the latter for approval copies of all standing circular orders that they may propose to issue, together with explanations, where necessary of the reason for these orders.

17-A. Senior Public Prosecutor.—

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