(a) Advice on physical training sailors.
(b) Supervision of physical training sailors.
(c) Supervision of swimming instructions.
(d) Assistance in the provision of games and sports facilities for officers and sailors.
(e) Promulgation of information on welfare facilities generally.
(f) Advice on the provision and conditions of canteens, recreation rooms, clubs and hostels to meet Naval requirements.
(g) Assistance in the provision of social entertainments.
(h) Assistance in the provision of welfare amenities and recreational gear.
(j)Maintenance of close co-operation with the welfare authorities of the Army, Air Force, Merchant Navy, and with voluntary organisations and local authorities.
(k)Provision of information about welfare and benevolent organisations who work benefits members of the Naval service.
1803. P.T. Officer. (1) When an officer is detailed to carry out the duties of the P.T.
officer, he shall conduct physical training in accordance with Handbooks of Physical Training in force and shall assist in the provision of games and sports for officers and sailors. He shall advise the Captain and Divisional officers on the physical well-being of the sailors, and on welfare matters.
(2) He shall supervise the swimming instructions and shall constantly examine the record of instructions in swimming.
1804. Medical Officers. Medical officers appointed for physical training duties shall carry out such advisory and other duties as may be required by the officers to whose Commands they are attached.
CHAPTER 19 INSTRUCTIONS TO THE PROVOST STAFF
1901. Responsibility and Authority. (1) The Executive officer, and the officer of the Watch when appropriate, are responsible that the Master-at-Arms and regulating sailors carry out the instructions contained in this chapter.
(2) The provost staff includes At-Arms officers, Special Duties (Regulating) (SDREG) officers and Master Chief-at-Arms (MC-at Arms), Master-at-Arms (MAA), Regulating Petty officers (RPO) and Leading Patrolmen (LPM), Provost sailors include sailors of the regulating branch and other sailors performing or assisting in the performance of Provost and regulating duties.
(3) MCPOs, CPOs, Pos, of the Executive Branch of the watch onboard shall assist the MC-at-Arms MAA, RPO and other provost sailors out of working hours.
Other sailors shall be detailed for this duty in turn as part of their normal duties, depending upon the requirements of the service.
(4)In the absence of MC-at-Arms/MAA his duties shall be performed by a senior RPO/LPM. Where non-is borne by such other MCPO/CPO/PO as the Captain may appoint.
(5)Sailors employed on regulating, patrol or sentry duties are authorised in the execution of these duties, to give lawful orders to other sailors including those superior to them in rank.
(6) Provost and regulating duties are mainly those connected with the maintenance of law and order, prevention of irregularities and offences, breach of security and discipline, custody of offenders etc. and not with detailing of individual sailors for work in be performed on board or ashore.
1902. Patrols and Escorts. (1) Leading patrolmen both afloat and ashore when more than one is borne shall be employed primarily on provost duties. They are to exercise special care when the ship is on a foreign cruise or in a port. They may be ordered ashore by the Senior Officer to augment standing patrols.
(2) Patrols and escorts, when formed of sailors other than Leading Patrolmen, shall always include sailors below the rank of Petty officer, so that no opportunity may be given to a drunken sailor to his superior officer.
(3) A Petty officer, or the person in charge of a patrol or escort, should not himself arrest a refractory man, except when his assistance has actually become necessary.
(4) Naval Police badge shall be worn on the right upper arm when on board or ashore by sailor employed on provost/regulating duties while actually on duty.