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Para 40 to 42 (Chapter IV Circle Inspectors) Uttar Pradesh Police Regulations
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40. Principal duties of Circle Inspectors.—
The principal duty of the Circle Inspector is to supervise the investigation and prevention of crime, to coordinate preventive and detective work in police circles, co-operating with other circle inspectors for this purpose and to see that the police, and more particularly the station officers subordinate to him, perform their duties honestly and efficiently. His energies must not be dissipated in unnecessary clerical work in connetion with his office or with the inspection of police stations.
He will maintain a crime register for his circle and will receive copies of all first information reports of cognizable crime direct from police stations, but his notes in the register should be an index of action taken for the detection and prevention of organized and serious crime, and the register should not be swamped with details regarding petty offences. He will inspect each police station in his circle once a year, following the instructions given in the memorandum on the inspection of police stations by Circle Inspectors, paying attention chiefly to matters connected with the prevention and detection of crime. He should visit the scene of occurrence and. guide investigation in all important cases, and may be deputed by the Superintendent to conduct investigations himself. Whenever he attends an investigation he will not only sign the case diary for the time of its attendance, but must also record therein in detail all instructions which he may findit necessary to give to the investigating officer regarding the future conduct of the case.
The Circle Inspector will also draw up monthly survey of crime in his circle in which he will show wKat measures he has initiated during the month for the prevention and detection of crime and any further action still required. This survey should be police station-wise and should go through the circle officer to the Superintendent of Police. v
Details of his duties in regard to surveillance, to Which he should devote particular attention, are given in paragraph 251. He must make himself acquainted with the people and acquire local knowledge of every part of his circle.
1. G. O. No. 302 / Eight-2-10(10)-78 Home (Police) dtd. 27-3-74.
41. Other duties of Circle Inspector.—
It will also be the duty of the Circle Inspector:
I. To keep the Superintendent informed of every occurrence in the circle which the Superintendent or the District Magistrate ought to know of, in the interest of the administration. It is especially his duty to report any feeling of disaffection towards the measures of Government, and the spreading of any movement, scare or rumour which may cause trouble, if not checked.
II. To take command of a police force employed in suppressing a riot or otherwise actively maintaining order, when he is the senior police officer present.
III. To keep a diary in Form No. 3, recording his movements; also a confidential note-book recording notes on all matters which he has to bring to the notice of the Superintendent, but cannot suitably mention in his inspection reports.
IV. To inspect shops licensed under the Arms and Explosives Act [see pages 61-62 of the Explosive Manual (1908) and paragraph 28 (4), Indian Arms Rules, (1924)].
V. To keep the Superintendent informed of the conduct of the subordinate police of his circle and of the manner in which they perform their duties and to make such preliminary inquiries in departmental cases as the Superintendent may direct.
1. Now see Arms Rules, 1962.
42. Responsibilities given to Circle Inspector by the Inspector General—
In districts where the number of police stations is in die opinion of the Inspector- General too great in proportion to the number of Circle Inspectors for the latter to exercise the full control required by paragraphs 40 and 41, the Circle Inspector will be relieved of certain responsibilities, as follows :
(1) He will receive first information reports of offences only of the classes enumerated in paragraph 101 and of such others as the Superintendent of Police may direct and his crime register will be maintained for offences of these classes only;
(2) The orders requiring every Circle Inspector to make a complete inspection of each police station in his circle annually will not apply to him,
(3) His responsibility for supervillance for preventive action for keeping his superior officers informed of important occurrences and movements [paragraph 41 (1)] and for the co-ordination of measures for the suppression of crime of the classes for which he has been made responsible under clause (1) above, will be maintained. For these purposes he will tour and visit villages and police stations. He will also continue to be bound by para 41 (II, III and IV). Otherwise his principal duties will be to make or supervise such investigation and enquiries in criminal and departmental cases and to inspect such police stations as his Superintendent of Police may from time to time direct.