Every police-officer who shall be guilty of any violation
of duty or wilful breach or neglect of any rule or regulation or lawful order made by competent
authority, or who shall withdraw from the duties of his office without permission, 1
[or without having
given previous notice for the period of two months,] 2
[or who, being absent on leave, shall fail, without
reasonable cause, to report himself for duty on the expiration of such leave,] or who shall engage
without authority in any employment other than his police-duty, or who shall be guilty
of cowardice, or who shall offer any unwarrantable personal violence to any person in his custody,
shall be liable, on conviction before a Magistrate, to a penalty not exceeding three months pay, or to
imprisonment with or without hard labour, for a period not exceeding three months, or to both.
1. These words shall be deemed to have been rep. so long as the Police (Resignation of Office) Ordinance, 1942 (11 of 1942), remains in force: see s. 2 and the Schedule of that Ordinance.
2. Ins. by Act 8 of 1895, s. 9.