Legislative Council of Hong Kong

“ Any police officer who threatens or insults another officer of senior or equal rank when such other officer is on duty or when such threat or insult relates to or is consequent on the discharge of duty by the officer so threatened or insulted, shall be liable on conviction before a magistrate to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year. ”

“ It shall be lawful for any police officer to stop and search and if necessary to arrest and detain for further inquiries any person whom he may find in any street or other public place, or on board any vessel, or in any conveyance, at any hour of the day or night, who acts in a suspicious manner or whom he may suspect of having committed or of being about to commit or of intending to commit, any offence. ”

“ Every police officer who by resignation, dismissal, discharge or otherwise leaves the police force, shall before leaving deliver up each and every article of uniform, clothing, arms, accoutrement and other Government property which may be in his possession. ”

“ Any warrant lawfully issued for any purpose may be executed by any police officer at any time notwithstanding that the warrant is not in his possession at the time, but the warrant shall, on the demand of the person affected, be shown to him as soon as practicable after its execution. ”

“ In case any action is brought against any police officer for any act done in obedience to the warrant of any execution of magistrate, such officer shall not be responsible for any irregularity in the issuing of the warrant or for any want of jurisdiction in the magistrate issuing the same and he may plead the general issue and give such warrant in evidence ”

“ Every officer in charge of a prison shall receive into his custody and carry out any sentence of imprisonment passed upon any constable for any offence under this Ordinance upon an order in writing being delivered to him under the hand of a magistrate or a gazetted police officer, which order shall specify the offence and period of imprisonment.
(5) Every person whilst undergoing any such sentence of imprisonment shall be deemed to be and be dealt with as a criminal prisoner. ”

“ If any person shall establish his title to such property to the satisfaction of the Commissioner within three months after the property comes into the custody or possession of the police, the same shall be delivered to him on payment of all expenses reasonably incurred and of such sum, not exceeding one-fifth of the value of the property, as may be awarded by the Commissioner by way of reward to the finder (if any) of the property. ”

“ The Governor may, by notification in the Gazette, impose upon any village representative, deputy village representative or assistant village representative the duties of a police officer and may invest any such person with the powers conferred by law upon a police officer not above the rank of sergeant. Every such person so invested will take the same oath or make the same declaration as a police officer. ”

“ A gazetted police officer shall be appointed, interdicted, suspended or dismissed according to the terms of the Regulations for His Majesty’s Colonial Service and the General Orders of the Hong Kong Government for the time being in force but subject nevertheless to any special conditions of his appointment. ”

“ On the application of any person the Commissioner may, if he thinks fit, detail any police officer or police officers to do special police duty in upon or about any premises business or vessel specified by the applicant. ”

“ Any police officer or other person authorised to make an arrest may break open any place in order to liberate himself or any other person who having lawfully entered for the purpose of making an arrest is detained therein. ”

“ The respective names residences and occupations of the person so apprehended and of his surety or sureties, if any, entering into such recognizance, together with the condition thereof and the sums respectively acknowledged, shall be entered in a book to be kept for that purpose which shall be laid before the magistrate before whom the person apprehended is to appear or in the case of a person bound by recognizance to surrender for service of a warrant of arrest and detention or for discharge, before any magistrate ”

“ The fund shall be controlled by the Commissioner subject to police regulations and applied to the purpose of—
(a) recompensing inspectors, non-commissioned officers and constables for extra services rendered by them; (b) procuring for inspectors, non-commissioned officers and constables who are serving or who have been retired on pension or gratuity, comforts, convenience or other advantages not chargeable to the public revenue; and (c) granting loans to police officers who are serving or who have been retired on pension or gratuity or rates and terms in accordance with police regulations. ”

“ If goods and chattels of the nature specified in sections 38, 39 and 40 are of no appreciable value or of value so small in the opinion of the Commissioner as to render impracticable the sale of such property, the Commissioner may order such property to be destroyed or otherwise disposed of as he thinks fit. ”

“ Provided that if the person apprehended appears and makes application for postponement of the hearing of the charge against him, the magistrate may enlarge the recognizance to such further time as he may think proper, and when the matter has been heard and determined such recognizance shall be discharged without fee or reward. ”

“ Every police officer shall, before entering on the duties of his office, take before a magistrate or justice of the peace an oath or declaration of office in the form specified in the Schedule.Schedule to this Ordinance. ”

“ AND I further declare that I will at all times obey without question the lawful orders of those set in authority over me.
Declared before me this . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .day of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ”