POLICE FORCE
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PART II
CONSTITUTION AND ADMINISTRATION OF POLICE FORCE
Constitution of Police Force
3.—(1) As from the appointed day, the Singapore Police Force established and maintained under the repealed Act shall continue and be deemed to be established and maintained under this Act.
(2) The Police Force shall consist of such number of—
- (a) senior police officers; and
- (b) other police officers below the rank of inspector,
as are from time to time approved by the Minister.
(3) The Police Force shall also be known as the Polis Repablik Singapura.
Functions and duties of Police Force
4.—(1) Subject to this Act, the Police Force shall have the following functions throughout Singapore:
- (a) to maintain law and order;
- (b) to preserve public peace;
- (c) to prevent and detect crimes;
- (d) to apprehend offenders; and
- (e) to exercise any other function conferred on it by or under this Act or any other written law.
(2) The duties of the Police Force shall be to take lawful measures for—
- (a) preserving the public peace;
- (b) preventing and detecting crimes and offences;
- (c) apprehending all persons whom police officers are legally authorised to apprehend;
- (d) regulating processions and assemblies in public roads, public places or places of public resort;
