✨ Police Regulations
Numb. 3.
SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1887.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1887.
Police Regulations.
(L.S.)
Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by the eleventh section of an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand intituled The Police Force
Act, 1886, it is enacted that the Governor from time to time may
make, alter, or revoke such regulations respecting the training,
arms and accoutrements, clothing, and equipment of such force,
and respecting all other matters connected therewith as may be
required for promoting the discipline and efficiency thereof; and
also may from time to time direct the employment of such force
as to him shall seem meet :
And whereas by a Proclamation dated the eleventh day of July,
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, certain regulations
were made under The Armed Constabulary Act Amendment Act,
1869, for the purposes aforesaid, and by subsequent Proclamations
dated the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-
four, and the sixteenth day of December, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-five, certain amendments were made in the said
regulations : And whereas it is expedient now to revoke the several
regulations so made by the above-recited Proclamations, and to
make other regulations in lieu thereof :
Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of the said
recited power and authority, do, by this present order, revoke the
aforesaid rules and regulations, and do make the rules and regu-
ulations specified in the Schedule hereinafter written ; such regula-
tions to come into force from the date of the publication thereof in
the New Zealand Gazette.
SCHEDULE.
POLICE REGULATIONS.
DISTRIBUTION.
For police purposes the colony is divided into districts.
2. The police will be distributed at stations through-
out the districts, as authorized.
3. The officer in charge of a police district, as well as
every member of the force appointed to any sub-district
or station, will be held specially responsible for the
peace, good order, and security of such portion thereof
as may be committed to his charge, as well as for the
general performance of other police duties.
4. The dépôt or headquarters of the police will be in
Wellington, under the immediate supervision of the
Commissioner.
5. The police force will be divided into the following
grades—viz. :—
Commissioner;
Inspectors, first, second, and third class;
Sergeants-Major;
Sergeants, first, second, and third class;
Constables, first, second, and third class.
6. The police will also be divided into preventive and
detective branches.
GENERAL RULES.
- Applications for enrolment in the police force
(hereinafter termed the force) are to be made from the
Permanent Militia exclusively. (See Section No. 59.)
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NZ Gazette 1887, No 3
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⚖️ Proclamation: Police Regulations
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement12 January 1887
Police Force, Regulations, Training, Discipline, Efficiency, Distribution, Grades, General Rules
- Wm. F. Drummond Jervois, Governor