THE POLICE ACT, 1888
(3 of 1888)
[17th February 1888]
1. Title and extent.
2. Constitution
of police-forces for special purposes
3. Employment
of police-officers beyond the State to which they belong.
4. Consent of
State Government to exercise of powers and jurisdiction
THE POLICE ACT,
1888
An Act to amend the law relating to the Regulation of Police
WHEREAS it is expedient to relax those provisions of
Acts for the regulation of police which restrict the employment of
police-officers to be presidency, province or place of the police-establishment
of which they are members; It is hereby enacted as follows: -
(1) This
Act may be called the Police Act, 1888.
(2) It
extends to the whole of India.
2. Constitution
of police-forces for special purposes. -
(1) Notwithstanding
anything contained in the Madras District Police Act, 1859 (24 of 1859), the
Indian Police Act, 1861 (5 of 1861), the Bombay District Police Act, 1890
(Bom. Act 4 of 1890) or any Act
relating to the Police in any presidency town, the Central Government may, by
notification in the Official Gazette, create a special police-district
embracing parts of two or more States, and extend every pail of the said
district the powers and jurisdiction of members of a police-force belonging to
a State specified in the notification.
(2) Subject
to any orders, which the Central Government may make in this behalf, members of
the said Police Force shall have, within every part of any State or which any
part is included in the said district, the powers, duties, privileges and
liabilities which, as police officers, they have in their own State.
(3) Any
member of the police-force whom the Central Government shall generally or
specially empower to act under this sub-section may, subject to any orders
which the Central Government may make in this behalf, exercise within any State
any part of which is included in the said district any of the powers of the
officer-in-charge of police station in that State, and when so exercising any
such powers, shall, subject to any such order as aforesaid, be deemed to be an
officer-in-charge of a police-station discharging the functions of such an
officer within the limits of his station.
(4) A part
of a State included in the said district shall not by reason of that inclusion
cease, for the purposes of any enactment relating to police, to be part of the
State.
3. Employment
of police-officers beyond the State to which they belong. -Notwithstanding anything in
any of the Acts mentioned or referred to in the last foregoing section, but
subject to any orders which the Central Government may make in this behalf, a
member of the police force of any State may discharge the functions of a
police-officer in any part of any other State and shall, while so discharging
such functions, be deemed to be a member of the police-force of that part and
be vested with the powers, functions and privileges and be subject to the
liabilities of a police-officer belonging to that police force.
4. Consent
of State Government to exercise of powers and jurisdiction. -Nothing in this Act shall
be deemed to enable the police of one State to exercise powers and jurisdiction
in any area within another State, not being a railway area, without the consent
of the Government of that other State.