Section 46(a) in Police Regulations, Bengal , 1943
(a)The two main objects for which an Assistant or Deputy Superintendent is posted as a Sub-divisional Police Officer are to prevent and detect crime and to ensure that close supervision is exercised over investigations. For this reason -(i)he shall in every important case, and particularly in every special report case, visit the spot and supervise the investigation as prescribed in regulations 54 and 55.(ii)he should secure the local knowledge which is essential for the prevention and detection of crime by touring in the villages and getting into close touch with the people. He should ascertain from them whether the chaukidars are doing their duty, whether any particular class of crime is prevalent, and whether real efforts have been made to arrest absconders where these are many. He should take with him the Village Crime Note Book and test the entries in it by enquiries from respectable villagers ; and he should particularly enquire whether there are any new criminal gangs at work. It is open to him to recommend deserving village headmen for rewards.
