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6. All powers granted to and duties imposed by law on police officer shall be exercised or performed in accordance with police regulations and police orders made under this with Ordinance.

7. All police officers shall be bound to serve at any place in the Colony or on board any vessel in the service of the Government of the Colony.

8. 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) preventing injury to life and property;
 * (d) apprehending all persons whom it is lawful to apprehend and for whose apprehension sufficient grounds exist;
 * (e) regulating processions and assemblies in public places or places of public resort;
 * (f) controlling traffic upon public thoroughfares and removing obstructions therefrom;
 * (g) preserving order in public places and places of public resort, at public meetings and in assemblies for public amusements, for which purpose any police officer on duty shall have free admission to all such places and meetings and assemblies while open to any of the public;
 * (h) assisting in carrying out any revenue, excise, sanitary, conservancy, quarantine, immigration and alien registration laws;
 * (i) assisting in preserving order in the waters of the Colony and in enforcing port and maritime regulation therein;
 * (j) executing summonses, subpoenas, warrants, commitments and other process issued by the courts;
 * (k) exhibiting informations and conducting prosecutions;
 * (l) protecting unclaimed and lost property and finding the owners thereof;
 * (m) taking charge of and impounding stray animals;