DUTIES OF MEMBERS OF THE POLICE FORCE

Excerpt from Police Act, Section 12

It shall be the duty of the Force to take lawful measures for:

1. preserving the public peace.
2. preventing and detecting crimes and offences.
3. apprehending, and causing to be apprehended, persons who shall have committed, or shall be charged with or suspected of having committed or having abetted the commission of, or being about to commit, any crime or offence.
4. regulating processions sand assemblies in public places.
5. regulating the traffic upon public thoroughfares and removing obstructions therefrom.
6. preserving order and decorum in public places and assemblies for public amusements, for which purpose each and every member of the Force, when on duty, shall have free admission to all such meetings and assemblies, while open to any of the public.
7. assisting in carrying out the revenue, (excise, quarantine), emigration and immigration laws;
8. assisting in preserving order in the different ports and harbours in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; and in enforcing the port regulations therein.
9. executing summonses, subpoenas, warrants commitments, and other criminal or quasi-criminal process issued by the several magistrates, justices of the peace and coroners, on complaints or proceedings before them.
10. exhibiting information and conducting prosecutions for crimes and offenses.
11. the protection of unclaimed and lost property, and finding the owners thereof.
12. taking charge of and impounding any animals found straying in any public place.
13. assisting in the protection of life and property at fires.
14. protecting public property from loss or injury, attending the High Court and Magistrate’s Courts and keeping order therein.
15. escorting prisoners to and from prisons and places of detention.
16. executing such other duties as may by law be imposed on a member of the Force.