(1) For the purpose of efficiency in the general administration of the district, it shall be lawful for the District Magistrate, in addition to the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 and other relevant Acts, to coordinate and direct the functioning of the police, with other agencies of district administration in respect of matters relating to the following:-
(a) the promotion of land reforms and the settlement of land disputes;
(b) extensive disturbance of the public peace and tranquility in the district;
(c) the conduct of elections to any public body;
(d) the handling of natural calamities and rehabilitation of the persons affected thereby;
(e) situations arising out of any external aggression or internal disturbances;
(f) any similar matter, not within the purview of any one department and affecting the general welfare of the public of the district; and
(g) removal of any persistent public grievance.
(2) For the purpose of such coordination, the District Magistrate may call for information of a general or special nature, as and when required, from the Superintendent of Police and heads of other departments of the district.
Where the situation so demands, the District. Magistrate shall pass appropriate orders and issue directions in writing, to achieve the objective of coordination.
Central Act 2 of 1974 Railway Police 16. (1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, create one or more special police districts embracing such railway areas in the State as it may specify, and appoint a Superintendent of Police, one or more Assistant and Deputy Superintendent and such other police officers for each such special district as it may deem fit. The State Government may also appoint for the whole State an officer not below the rank of Deputy Inspector General of Police to supervise the functions of the Railway Police.
(2) Subject to the control of the Director General of Police, such police officers shall discharge police functions connected with the administration of railways situated within their respective charges, and such other functions as the State Government may from time to time assign to 12 them.
(3) Any police officer whom the State Government may by general or special order empower to act under this subsection, may, subject to any orders which the government may make in this behalf, exercise within the special district or any part thereof any of the powers of an Officer-in- Charge of a Police Station in that district. While exercising such powers he shall, subject to any such order as aforesaid, be deemed to be an Officer-in-Charge of the Police Station discharging the functions of such officer within the limits of his Station.
(4) Subject to any general or special orders which the State Government may make in this behalf, such police officers shall, in the discharge of their functions, be vested within every part of the State, with the powers and privileges and be subject to the liabilities of police officers under this Act or any other law for the time being in force.
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