Section 559(a) in Police Regulations, Bengal , 1943
(a)The following are the duties of a Platform Sergeant :-(i)Attending the arrival and departure of passenger trains and preserving order in the station.(ii)Looking for suspicious characters and reporting their arrival and departure.(iii)Regulation of traffic within the station limits and reporting offenders to the officer-in-charge of the local railway police-station.(iv)Searching empty carriages and making over to the station master all properties found in such search and obtaining receipt from him therefor.(v)Visiting police-stations for instructing the force in drill and handling of arms.
