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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 9

Offence Return.

357. The annual offence return shall include all offences shown on the printed forms supplied from the Commissioner’s office each year, and, should there be any offences other than those mentioned therein for which offenders could be arrested, they shall be returned under headings to be made at end of return.

358. By-law and other petty offences for which proceedings can be taken only by summons should be omitted, and also references to mental defectives.

359. Particular care must be observed in preparing this return, and the figures should be checked in every way possible.

Offences and Punishments.

360. Any member of the Force who shall be found guilty of any of the offences enumerated in the following regulation shall, according to the gravity of the offence, be liable to the following disciplinary punishments, irrespective of any punishment that he may be liable to by law:—

(1.) Dismissal or discharge from the service under the authority of the Minister or the Commissioner.

(2.) Reduction in rank.

(3.) Such other punishment as the Commissioner shall award, including, in the case of a Senior or other Sergeant, or a Constable, a fine not exceeding £1.

(4.) Such punishments as the Superintendents and Inspectors are authorized by the Police Force Act, 1908, to award.

361. List of disciplinary offences with which a member of the Force is liable to be charged:—

(1.) Disobedience of the lawful orders of a superior.

(2.) Striking a superior.

(3.) Behaving with contempt towards a superior.

(4.) Mutinous or insubordinate conduct or making use of mutinous words.

(5.) Overholding any complaint.

(6.) Assault on a comrade.

(7.) Oppressive or tyrannical conduct towards an inferior.

(8.) Intoxication, however slight.

(9.) Tippling.

(10.) Knowingly making false return or statement, or signing any false certificate, or being privy thereto.

(11.) Making an alteration or erasure in any public document, or in any official book or record, for the purpose of fraud or deceit.

(12.) Wilfully making any false entry in any official book or diary.

(13.) Wilfully omitting to make an entry in any official book or diary as to the performance of any duty, matter, or thing which ought to be so entered.

(14.) Soliciting a gratuity.

(15.) Directly or indirectly receiving any gratuity without the Commissioner’s sanction.

(16.) Refusing or omitting to make a true and faithful return of all moneys received by him, or to which he may be entitled upon any conviction in which he shall have been a prosecutor or witness.

(17.) Unduly overholding any fines, or allowances, or any other public money.

(18.) Divulging any matter or thing which it may be his duty to keep secret.

(19.) Knowing where any offender shall be residing or concealed, and failing to inform a superior immediately of the same.

(20.) Failing to take due and prompt measures for the arrest of any offender.

(21.) Wilfully or through negligence allowing any prisoner to escape.

(22.) Treating any prisoner or other person cruelly, harshly, or with unnecessary violence.

(23.) Wearing any party emblem, or otherwise manifesting political partisanship.

(24.) Wearing any medal or any badge whatever, without authority from the Commissioner.

(25.) Being convicted of any offence by a Court of Justice.

(26.) Incurring and refusing or neglecting to pay any lawful debt, or being found to have been in debt when entering the Force, or becoming a bankrupt.

(27.) Borrowing money directly or indirectly from or through any other member of the Force of inferior rank.

(28.) Borrowing money from, or being under any pecuniary or other obligation to, any person interested in the liquor trade.

(29.) Betting with a bookmaker, whether directly or indirectly through the medium of agents or friends, and sharing in any way in a bet or the proceeds of a bet with a bookmaker.

(30.) Forming an intimacy with a bookmaker or with a racehorse-owner, trainer, or jockey to whom he is not nearly related, or corresponding with or having, without the permission of the Superintendent or other officer in charge, dealings of any kind with such persons.

(31.) Owning or having any interest in a racehorse or any horse intended to be used for racing. A member will be deemed to be so interested if his wife is so interested.

(32.) When ordered on transfer to another district or station, failing to report without delay to his Superintendent or other officer in charge whether he or his wife has any relatives among persons known to him to be acting as bookmakers or holders of publicans’ licenses in the district or station to which it is proposed to transfer him.

(33.) Gambling.

(34.) Making any anonymous complaint to the Government or to the Commissioner.

(35.) Communicating, without the Commissioner’s authority, either directly or indirectly, to the public Press any matter or thing touching the Force.

(36.) Leaving any post when placed there on duty.

(37.) Absence from district or station without leave.

(38.) Prevarication before any Court or any inquiry.

(39.) Behaving in a scandalous or infamous manner, or being guilty of profane, immoral, or disgraceful conduct.

(40.) Entering a publichouse while on duty, not being required there by any duty.

(41.) Marrying without leave.

(42.) Violating any standing order or regulation, or any order or regulation hereafter to be made.

(43.) By any concealment, or wilful omission, or otherwise attempting to evade the true spirit and meaning of the orders and regulations of the Force.

(44.) Any act, conduct, disorder, or neglect to the prejudice of good order, morality, or discipline, though not specified in these regulations,