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Punjab Police Rules

Section : Chapter XIV Discipline

Salutes

14.2 ਸਲੂਟ

Saluting by police officers shall be in accordance with the instructions contained in Chapter IV, Police Drill Manual, Punjab, 1929, and the following special instructions :- (a) All police officers above the rank of head constable are entitled to be saluted by other police officers junior to them in rank. (b) Police officers of all ranks, when in uniform, shall salute His Excellency the Viceroy; His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief; his Excellency the Governor of the Punjab; and Ministers of the Punjab Government, on all occasions save as expected in sub-rules (c) and (d) below. The Presidents and Deputy Presidents of Legislative bodies shall receive the same compliments when such Legislative bodies are in session and upon official occasions. Gazetted police officers in uniform shall salute high civil officials and officers of the Navy, Army and Air Force who are superior to them in rank when addressing or addressed by them. Non- gazetted police officers in uniform shall salute as ordered above and shall also salute all officers in uniform of the Navy, Army or Air Force superior to them in rank, and all civil officials of and above the rank of Extra Assistant Commissioner, or equivalent rank, when addressing or addressed by them. Head Constables and Constables shall salute as above and shall also salute all civil officials of gazetted rank when addressing or addressed by them. Every police officer entering a Court of law in uniform, while such Court is in session, shall salute the Court, irrespective of the rank or status of the judicial officer presiding in such a Court for the time being. Magistrates incharge of ilaqas shall be entitled to be saluted within the boundaries of their ilaqa, as well as in their Courts, by non-gazetted police officers addressing or addressed by them. (c) Police of all ranks when on parade, or posted in line on public occasions, shall stand to attention only, and shall not salute when persons entitled to a salute pass them; provided that a police officer on duty shall salute when addressing or addressed individually by a person entitled to a salute from him. (d) Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing instructions, police officers of whatever rank employed on traffic and other duties requiring their concentrated attention shall give no salutes unless actually addressed by, or called upon to address in the course of such duty, a person entitled to a salute.



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