- their duties and responsibilities.- The guarding personnel will consist of Head Warder-cum-P.T. Instructors, Head Guards and Jail Guards. Specific duties of each member of the guarding staff on various sections and points will be assigned by the Superintendent on a rotation basis in keeping with his or her status within the cadre in the following areas:(i)Security, custody, discipline;(ii)Searches and counting of prisoners;(iii)Opening and locking-up of the prison;(iv)Reporting defects and short comings in prison buildings, walls, locks, lighting arrangements and iron-bars, taking immediate action for rectifying these and taking care of the custody of locks and keys, handcuffs and other security equipment;(v)Care and welfare of prisoners;(vi)Maintenance of discipline in institutional premises, gates, quarantine, barracks, dormitories, cells, work sheds, punishment yards, segregation yards, hospital, kitchen, farm and in every other section of the institution;(vii)Sanitation and hygiene in areas under his charge;(viii)Guarding and sentry duties;(ix)Escorting prisoners for work, supervision of their work, care and custody of tools, property, equipment, dead stock and livestock;(x)Supervision of distribution of food, canteen articles and inmate equipment;(xi)Helping the technical personnel in work sheds, management and discipline, helping agricultural personnel in all related matters;(xii)Discipline in areas where educational, cultural and recreational activities are conducted;(xiii)Reporting violations of discipline to appropriate officers for taking immediate action as per rules;(xiv)Observing habits and behaviour patterns of inmates and reporting the same to the authorities concerned, helping inmates to improve their habits and attitudes;(xv)Taking preventive and control measures for all emergency situations;(xvi)Discipline in staff quarters;(xvii)P.T., drill parades and emergency practice.
