Punjab Police Rules Volume 1 - Sangrur Police

102 Punjab Police Rules, 1934 Volume 1, CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 6
Arms and Ammunition
Rule 6.1
6.1. General scale of arms, ammunition and stores for maintenance. - The armament
of the police is fixed by orders of the Central Government, without which authority
no changes in the nature and amount of such armament may be made. The authorized
scale of arms, ammunition, equipment for the carrying and stores for the repair and maintenance
of arms is shown in "Equipment Tables of Civil Police and Jails", published under
the authority of the Government of India and obtainable from the Central Publication
Branch, Central Government, Calcutta. At least two copies of this publication shall be in
the possession of each range Deputy Inspector-General and Superintendent of Police, and
special care shall be taken that they are kept up to date by the insertion of authorized corrections
as issued from time to time.
Rule 6.2
6.2. Source of supply of arms, ammunition, etc. - (1) All items shown in the Equipment
Tables shall be obtained by indent, in the manner prescribed in the rules which
follow, from the Ordnance Department. Police armament is supplied on payment,
charges being met from funds administered by the Inspector- General. In respect of certain
items the Inspector-General may decide, from time to time, to obtain supplies from
sources other than the Ordnance Department. Such exceptions to the general principle
that the Equipment Tables are the authority for demands will be notified in the Police Gazette
or otherwise.
(2) In every police office concerned a special permanent file shall be maintained containing
copies of orders by the Inspector-General authorizing exceptions to, or deviations
from the Equipment Tables. Except in the office of range Deputy Inspector’s-General,
this file shall be kept in duplicate, one copy being in the English Office and the other in
the headquarter lines office.
Rule 6.3
6.3. Distribution of arms to districts. - The distribution of arms to districts is fixed by
the Inspector-General in accordance with the principles approved from time to time, by
the Central Government. Each district shall maintain a printed statement showing the total
armament of the district as so fixed and its permanent distribution within the district
as approved by the Deputy Inspector-General of the range. This statement shall be countersigned
in duplicate by the Deputy Inspector-General and one such countersigned copy
shall be hung up in the Office of the Superintendent and the other in the armoury. Relevant
extracts, duly signed by the Superintendent of Police, personally shall be hung up in
the armoury, or equivalent place where arms are stored, of the lines and of every police
station, post or standing guard where arms are maintained.
Rule 6.4
6.4. Description of police armament. - The classes of armament authorized for the police
are as follows :-
(a) Rifles - Short magazine Lee-Enfield, for mounted police, Ist armed reserves and
such other police as may be authorized to be so armed.
(b) Muskets breech-loading .410 bore for head constables and constables in the proportion
of the total establishment of those ranks for which such armament is
authorized. (vide rule 6.5)
(c) Rifles - short .22 inch R.F. for instructional purposes, in numbers authorized for
each district by the Inspector-General.
(d) Pistols - Revolver .455 inch for gazetted officers and upper subordinates according
to the scale and conditions prescribed in rule 6.5.