(1) For day work the whole of the Head Warders and Warders on the establishment, excluding the reserve guard and gate warders shall ordinarily be divided in three squads.
(2) The wards shall be unlocked at dawn and immediately before the opening of the wards, the Jailor, Deputy Jailor, and Head Warder with the warders who are to be on duty in the morning shall enter the jail together.
(3) The Jailor shall then let out of their wards the convict overseers and the gang of convict watchmen who are to watch the jail walls during the first turn of duty, these watchmen shall be locked up in one ward and not scattered over several wards.
(4) One of the Head Warders shall take these convict watchmen to the latrine and then shall post them round the jail walls.
(5) When the Head Warder reports that the wall guards are posted, the wards shall be opened and the prisoners counted out in pairs in the presence of the warders and convict watchmen of the last watch and of the relieving day warders and day convict overseers.
(6) After the numbers locked up in the previous evening have been found correct, the prisoners shall be made over to the warders and convict overseers of the day-gang in which they shall remain through the day.
(7) When this is done, the relieved warders of the 3rd shift or last watch shall be marched out of the Jail.
(8) The usual morning latrine, bathing and feeding parades shall then be carried out for the gangs remaining in charge of the same warder or convict overseer who received them on leaving the sleeping wards at the opening of the Jail.
(9) When the morning parades are completed the Head Warder or Warders shall, under the supervision of the Jailor or Deputy Jailor, send the several gangs to their respective places of work, after calling out the names of the prisoners from the roll-call, in pairs in order to make sure that all prisoners who should be present in each gang are actually present and the convict overseers placed in charge of, or attached to, the gangs at the opening of the Jail continuing responsible for the whole day.
(10) Each gang shall be counted in the presence of the warder or convict officer receiving charge of it, whose names shall then be recorded in the gang-book.
(11) At each subsequent change of the guard during the day, the same procedure shall be followed, whether the change is made in the ordinary course or on account of sickness or other cause.
(12) The rolls of gangs made over to the independent charge of convict overseers need not be called at noon, if these officers are not changed during the day, but these gangs shall be counted and verified at the time the warder guard is changed.
(13) In jails in the cold season when only one hour is allowed for the mid-day stoppage of work and parades, there is not sufficient time to call the roll at the mid-day change of guard and the gangs, therefore, shall then only be counted.
(14) The first squad of warders shall be relieved at noon by the second squad, which shall be brought in by the Head Warders for the second turn of day duty, and shall remain in charge until all prisoners are counted into the wards and locked up for the night and the night patrol has come on duty.
(15) The convict watchmen who watch the walls shall not be changed at noon arrangements shall, accordingly, be made to temporarily relieve them in turn to allow them to have their meals at proper intervals and for bathing, etc., and this can 601 राजस्ााू राज-पत्र दिसम् बर 12 2022 भाग 4 (ग) conveniently be done by placing convict officers patrolling inside the jail, on duty in place of the watchmen to be relieved.
(16) In the evening, when the bell is sounded to stop work each gang in charge of its warder or convict overseer shall, after being checked, proceed to the spot where the usual bathing, feeding and latrine parades are carried out and the officer in charge shall remain in charge till all prisoners have been locked up in their respective wards.
(17) At the conclusion of the parades the gangs shall be marched to and filed in front of their sleeping wards by their respective warders or convict officers.
(18) The prisoners shall then be locked up (their names being recorded in, and called from the gang-book) and placed in charge of the first night watchman of the watch inside the ward and subsequently made over to each succeeding night watchman, the numbers in the ward being carefully verified by counting at each change of night watchmen.
(19) After completion of the afternoon parades, the first night patrol shall be brought in by the Head Warder, and the Jailor, Assistant Jailor and the shall count the prisoners into their wards, respectively, in presence of the warder or convict officer who is to take charge of each ward for the first watch.
(20) When all are locked up except the convict watchman at the walls, the total number of prisoners shall be verified and if it is found correct, a Head Warder, shall then collect the convict watchmen from the wall and count and lock them up seeing that the number is correct.
(21) After locking up, the keys of all wards shall remain with the Head Warder and that keys of cells shall be kept with the warder on duty and the keys of Female Ward shall be kept with the Jailor.
(22) The number of prisoners and of keys shall be noted in the lock up report in Form as specified, so that the officer in-charge of each watch or shift may satisfy himself that he receives the correct number of keys.
(23) After the wards are locked up, the total number of prisoners confined in each separate place shall be recorded in the lock up register in Form as specified.
(24) This register is intended to show whether the wards are overcrowded or not.
(25) The Head Warder or other officer shall take a note of the number in each ward at lock up time, and Deputy Jailor shall afterwards enter the number in the book.
(26) For the purpose of guarding, the duty shall be divided as decided by the Director General of Prisons.
(27) The duty post and shift duty may be varied by the Superintendent according to actual requirements depending on the staff position.
(28) During change of each shift, all guarding staff are required to be searched by the duty Head Warder under supervision of an officer.
(29) The Superintendent or Jailor shall also search all executive officers, Ministerial staff below his rank randomly.