Punjab Police Rules Volume 1 - Sangrur Police

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If the Superintendent does not himself preside, decisions and findings of the committee
shall require his countersignature.
(2) Proceedings of the chanda committee shall be recorded in Form 7.16(2). Proceedings
under rule 7.12 (a) and (b) shall be conducted in the presence of the subscriber
concerned; a summary of the evidence and of the explanation of the subscriber shall be
recorded, and a considered finding shall be prepared and signed by all the members of the
committee.
Rule 7.17
7.17. Remounts. - (1) Horses or camels borne on the Chanda Fund and considered by
a Chanda Committee after reference to a Veterinary Officer to be unfit for service due to
old age, accident or disease shall, with the approval of the Inspector-General of Police, be
cast. In cases of accident where the Veterinary Officer considers immediate destruction
necessary, destruction should be carried out at once without awaiting the Assembly of a
Committee and the orders of the Inspector-General of Police. The Committee shall in
such cases report all the circumstances subsequently.
(2) Remounts shall be purchased in such a manner and by such officers as the Inspector-General
may from time to time direct. Superintendents requiring remounts to replace
horses or camels which have died or been cast shall notify their requirements to one of the
officers so designated.
(3) Horses selected as remounts shall be between four and six years of age, not less than
14 hands one inch in height, capable of carrying 13 stone, and suitable for police work.
No purchase shall be concluded until the horse has been certified as sound and of the prescribed
age by a qualified veterinary officer. Camels shall be between six and seven years
of age and shall be carefully tested as to their trotting powers and passed sound and of correct
age by a qualified veterinary officer before being purchased or accepted on the
establishment.
(4) European inspectors and sergeants and upper subordinates employed on duties
which do not ordinarily necessitate their riding long distances may be permitted by their
Superintendents to mount themselves on suitable horses about to be cast from mounted
units of the regular army, but officers so mounted shall not be eligible to join the Chanda
Fund.
Rule 7.18
7.18. Purchase of remounts. - (1) Purchasing Officers are authorized to pay Rs. 300
for horses and Rs. 250 for camels as an average price for all purchases made during any
one year. Subject to the required veterinary certificate in each case and to their satisfying
themselves that the animals purchased are in every way suitable for police work, they may
pay any price provided this average for the year is not exceeded. To enable them to make
prompt payments, purchasing officers may be granted advances from the Chanda Fund by
the Inspector-General, which they will recoup by bills in Form 10.59.
(2) Superintendents on whose behalf remounts are purchased are not authorized to reject
them, but, if they have reasons to consider any remount seriously below the required
standard, they may report the case to the Deputy Inspector-General. Superintendent
should give notice to purchasing officers as long in advance as possible of their intention
to cast any animal borne on the fund, so that suitable arrangements for its replacement
may be made. When notice cannot be given in anticipation of the vacancy, purchasing officers
shall endeavour to supply a remount within one month.
Rule 7.19
7.19. Assistance to be rendered by Veterinary Department. - Superintendents of the
Civil Veterinary Department have been directed to afford assistance to police officers free
of charge when purchasing remounts at fairs.
Veterinary officers of the Army Remount Department have also been instructed to ren-