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(4) Any inspector convicted before a magistrate under this section may, as a result of such conviction, be reduced in rank or dismissed from the police force by the Commissioner unless the conviction is reversed on appeal.

33. 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.

34. (1) Any non-commissioned officer or constable convicted under the provisions of section 29, sub-section (4) of section 31 or section 33 or convicted under the provisions of any other law of an offence punishable with imprisonment may, unless the conviction is reversed on appeal, be reduced in rank or dismissed from the police force and in case of dismissal any arrears of pay due to him may be forfeited by order of the Commissioner.

(2) Any non-commissioned officer dismissed from the police force in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (1) of this section shall be reduced to the ranks before dismissal.

35. (1) Nothing in this Ordinance shall be construed to exempt any police officer from being proceeded against by the ordinary course of law when accused of any offence punishable under any other ordinance or law.

(2) No police officer who has been acquitted by a magistrate or the Court of any crime or offence shall be tried departmentally on the same charge.

(3) Any sentence of imprisonment passed upon any constable for any offence under this Ordinance may be carried out in a police cell or in a place set aside as a prison under section 2 of the Prisons Ordinance, 1932. A sentence passed upon any person subject to this Ordinance shall be in no respect affected by such person ceasing to be subject to this Ordinanceby discharge or otherwise.

(4) 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,