- The following orders are prescribed for special ceremonial parades :-(i)In stations where there are regular, troops, the police can only join in a ceremonial parade at the invitation of the former. Such an invitation should always be complied with.(ii)At stations forming the headquarters of a battalion of the Eastern Frontier Rifles the parade will be held by the Commandant, and it will be for him to notify the Superintendent when a parade is to be held and ask him to co-operate. The Superintendent shall co-operate, provided he has a force of not less than 50 men of the District Armed Police available. The Eastern Frontier Rifles will take the right of the line subject to the provisions of clause (x), the Commandant will command the parade.(iii)At stations not being the headquarters of a battalion of the Eastern Frontier Rifles, where there is a detachment of 50 or more rifles of the battalion under an Assistant Commandant and where there are also men of the District Armed Police the parade will be held by the Assistant Commandant, who will notify the Superintendent that the parade will be held. The latter will co-operate if the available number of the District Armed Police is 50 or more.The Eastern Frontier Rifles will take the right of the line. The parade in such cases will be commanded by the senior police officer present, seniority being reckoned by the Warrant of Precedence for India, or, in cases in which this does not apply, from the date of commission in the Army in the case of officers of the Eastern Frontier Rifles, and the date of first appointment to Assistant Superintendent's rank in the case of police officers.(iv)In district headquarters at which the number neither of the Eastern Frontier Rifles nor of the District Armed Police amounts to 50 men, no feu-de-joie will be fired, but provided a force of not less than 50 rifles of both services together is available, such force should be paraded, present arms and march past. For less than 50 men no parade will be held.(v)At stations where there is no battalion or detachment of the Eastern Frontier Rifles, but where not less than 100 of the District Armed Police are available, ceremonial parades will be held under the command of the Superintendent and a feu-de-joie will be fired, but where the available force amounts to less than 100 men, it will only be paraded, present arms and march past. For numbers of less than 50 men no ceremonial parades will be held.(vi)Ceremonial parades will be held on -(1)the anniversary of His Majesty the King Emperor's birthday;(2)the celebration of the assumption of the title of "Empress of India" by Her late Majesty Queen Victoria; and(3)such other special occasions as may be ordered.(vii)The procedure on parade will be as laid in the Manual of Drill for the Bengal Police except when regular troops or the Eastern Frontier Rifles are also on parade, in which case the District Armed Police will conform as far as practicable with the existing Army Ceremonial Drill. Whenever a parade is held, the Superintendent shall inform the Commissioner, District Magistrate, District Judge and other gazetted officers in the station as well as the leading gentlemen of the town and neighbourhood several days beforehand of the time and place of the parade and invite them to be present.(viii)Should the Deputy Inspector-General of the Range or of the Criminal Investigation Department be present at any station at which a parade is held he should attend in uniform. He should take the salute and there be a march past (the Deputy Inspector-General for the Range taking precedence of the Deputy Inspector-General of the Criminal Investigation Department), but he will not command the parade. Should the Divisional Commissioner be present in the station, he should be invited by the Deputy Inspector-General to take the salute. In the absence of the Commissioner from the station the District Magistrate or in his absence the Additional District Magistrate should be invited to take the salute. In all other circumstances the Deputy Inspector-General or in his absence the Superintendent shall take the salute.(ix)All gazetted police officers who may be present in the station though not actually taking part in the parade shall attend in uniform.(x)If members of the Auxiliary Force desire to take part in a parade held under clauses (ii) to (v) they must be treated as regular troops while on parade and take the right of the line. The precedence, etc., of the officers is regulated by the rules, customs and instructions applying to the regular Army and Auxiliary Forces. At ceremonial parades at which the military and police are present, the question as to whether and when a civilian (Commissioner, District Magistrate) should be invited to take the salute is one for the good sense and discretion of the senior military officer. In coming to a decision he will no doubt consider the relative precedence of the invitee and that the troops would themselves prefer to pay a compliment to one who is known to them even if not personally.(xi)A note of the members of all ranks attending any ceremonial parade will be made in the morning report of the date on which such parade is held, and will also be entered in the monthly force return for the information of the Inspector-General.
