Punjab Police Rules Volume 1 - Sangrur Police

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PART III
GAZETTES, PUBLICATIONS AND CONTRACTS
Rule 11.51
11.51. The Police Gazette. - The Gazette is published in two parts in both English and
vernacular -
Part I. - Departmental Orders.
Part II. - Notifications regarding additional police, police station boundaries,
plague, appointments, promotions, reductions, dismissals, transfers, rewards (in
cases of exceptional interest or importance only), examinations, leave, pensions,
etc.
Rule 11.52
11.52. The Criminal Intelligence Gazette. - (1) The Criminal Intelligence Gazette is
published by the Criminal Investigation Department. As much publicity as possible
within the department shall be given to its contents, and information published in it regarding
arrests and identifications wanted, warning, etc., shall be freely disseminated to
public; the gazette as a whole, however, may not be shown to non-officials.
(2) Information on the following matters may be published in the Criminal Intelligence
Gazette and should be submitted in the forms noted :-
(a) Valuable property lost or stolen or found and awaiting identification [Form
22.79(1)(d)]. Notices shall be sent only when the circumstances, nature of the
case and the description available of the property are such as to render publicity
valuable.
(b) Proclaimed offenders and absconders [Form 23.22(1)]. Notice shall be sent
only when wide publicity is necessary as a warning against the offender and as
an aid to his arrest, and when full particulars of likely haunts, associates and description
are available.
Note :- When notices are sent for or publication regarding absconding suspects wanted by the police,
but against whom a warrant has not been issued, the officer submitting the notice will
be held personally responsible in any legal proceeding for defamation or the like, which may
arise from the publication.
(c) Arrests of proclaimed offenders and absconders will be published in important
cases only, or when "wanted" notices under clause (b) above previously been
published.
(d) Persons lost or missing [Form 22.79(1)(b)]. In important cases only and provided
a complete description of the person lost or missing is forthcoming.
(e) Unidentified persons found dead [Form 22.79(1)(a)]. In important cases in
which a complete description of the dead body is forthcoming.
(f) Lists of bad characters entered in police station Register No. X, who have left
their homes and cannot be traced [Form 23.4(1)]. These will only be published
in the circumstances indicated in clause (b) above.
(g) Descriptive notes regarding offences of a novel or professional type, including
cases of coining, note forging, fraudulent conspiracy, professional poisoning
and cheating, and memoranda embodying the shifts and artifices of criminals,
and special measures employed in countering them.
(h) Reports regarding suspicious vagrants, strangers, loafers, etc.
(i) Loss of passports, etc.
(j) Notices regarding loss and recovery of arms according to the instructions contained
in Criminal Investigation Department Circular No. 4986, dated 14th December,
1923.