Section 29 in The Chota Nagpur Rural Police Act, 1914
29. Duties of road-patrol.
- Every road-patrol appointed under this Act shall perform the following duties:-(1)he shall patrol the roads within his beat, under instructions from the Superintendent of Police, and shall protect all travellers passing along his beat;(2)he shall arrest-(a)all proclaimed offenders,(b)all persons whom he may find in the act of committing any offence specified in the Schedule, and(c)any person against whom a hue and cry has raised of his having been concerned in any such offence.(3)he shall forthwith take all persons so arrested to the police-station within the limits of which he acts as road-patrol;(4)he shall report to the officer-in-charge of the police-station within the limits of which his beat is situated the movements of all bad or suspicious characters along his beat, as well as all unusual circumstances that come to his notice; and(5)he shall supply any local information which the Commissioner or any officer of police may require.
