Administration Manual - B.E.S.T. Undertaking.

In the following pages, procedures have been laid down to serve as guidelines. These
procedures cannot be treated as exhaustive, since it is not possible to envisage peculiar circumstances
which may develop in the particular case. It will therefore, rest on the person present to deal with the
unforeseen circumstances with ingenuity and tact.
1. Attempt of theft – Procedure :
If a Security Guard finds some attempt of smuggling out material, they should not get excited
nor should they discuss the same with other Security Guard or other staff members. In such cases the
person who would have tried to take away the material would get alerted and hence he would not be
caught.
The correct procedure would be to –
I Action by S/Guard and Havaldar or ASI :
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i) Inform secretly the Havaldar immediately who should make necessary arrangements for
nabbing the person. Except Havaldar no other S/Guard should be informed for the sake of
secrecy. However, if the Havaldar feels that he should alert some other S/Guard at a particular
point he may do so. But none of these S/Guard should give any hint to any other person;
ii) If any material is suspected to have been placed in a place from where it is likely to be
smuggled out, the S/Guard who notices this and the Havaldar should keep a watch, unseen by
others and catch the person in the very act;
iii) Even after the person is caught they should not discuss or say anything to any person;