Punjab Police Rules Volume 1 - Sangrur Police

Arms and Ammunition 107
Rule 6.16
6.16. Ammunition accounts. - Ammunition of any class expended in action against
criminals, or in any manner otherwise than in annual musketry practice, shall be debited
to the service stock. The practice stock is provided solely for training purposes, viz., elementary
and range practices and repetitions thereof as duly authorized from time to time.
The allotment represents the maximum which may be so expended annually.
(2) The service stock must always be kept complete, any expenditure from it being replaced
immediately from the expense stock. Should such replacement of service
ammunition reduce the practice stock below the amount required for training, a special indent
against "Service" expenditure may be submitted [vide rule 6.26(4)].
(3) In order that the oldest ammunition on charge may be expended in practice, all ammunition
received from the arsenal shall be placed in the service stock, a corresponding
transfer of the oldest of that stock being made to the practice stock. This transfer shall
normally be carried out when the annual supply of ammunition is received from the arsenal;
it shall be combined with the renewal of all service ammunition on issue of police
stations, guards etc., all such ammunition being withdrawn and transferred to the practice
stock in the magazine and being replaced from the next oldest portion of the service book.
(4) No account of the service stock other than the distribution statement [rule 6.13(4)]
is necessary. Transactions affecting the practice stock shall be recorded in the magazine
register [From 6.16(4)]. In this account, so far as possible, bulk transactions only shall be
shown. Except in the case of .303 ammunition, the details of which must be kept in the
magazine register, issues for whatever purpose from the magazine shall ordinarily be
made to the expense stock, and the detailed expenditure shall be recorded only in the accounts
of the latter. Similarly, empty cases and damaged rounds shall be collected in the
expense stock and deposited in the magazine in bulk in exchange for fresh ammunition.
Rule 6.17
6.17. Control and inspection of magazines and storage of ammunition therein. -
Rules for the control and inspection of magazines are published as Appendix 6.17(A).
Each class of ammunition shall be kept together and separate from other classes. In each
class service shall be separated from practice stock, and within each such stock, spaces
shall be left between groups of boxes received at different times from the arsenal. Each
such group shall be marked with a card showing the date of receipt, date of entry in service
or practice stock as the case may be, and the ordnance mark and date of manufacture.
When miss-fires and other defects occur tests shall be carried out according to the rules
in the Appendix 6.17(B).
Rule 6.18
6.18. Disposal of empty cases and defective rounds. - Empty cases and defective
rounds may be returned to the arsenal at any time and should be so returned periodically
as they accumulate, the return being supported by a voucher in each case in I.A.F. Z.-2096
in duplicate. Pending return to the arsenal, empty cases of each class of ammunition and
defective rounds shall be kept separately in boxes in the magazine. Before being packed
for despatch they shall be counted and checked with the magazine register. Each class
shall be packed separately for despatch and defective rounds shall not be packed with
empty cases. Paper cases of blank 476 shall be burnt and the brass of the bases collected
after burning shall be returned to the arsenal, accompanied by a certificate signed by a gazetted
officer and showing the number of cases burnt. Defective rounds, or condemned
ammunition, shall on no account be broken up locally.
Rule 6.19
6.19. Check of ammunition. - (1) The keys of the magazine shall be kept by the Lines
Officer, who shall keep up the magazine register personally. The Lines Officer shall, further,
personally count the practice stock, including the expense stock, once a quarter, and
shall record the fact in the lines diary and by a note in all registers concerned. In districts
where there is a reserve inspector, he shall personally check the stocks and registers once