Police Act

Schedule (Sections 29 and 34)

offence

1.inciting , using or join in any mutiny or sedition or conspire with any person to incite or cause any mutiny or seditious conduct .2.Being present at any mutiny or act of sedition and failing to use the utmost endeavour to suppress it or, knowing of any mutiny or sedition, failing to give information thereof to a superior without delay.3.Abandoning or delivering up any station, post, camp or guard which it is his duty to defend, or voluntarily abandoning his arms.4.By discharging any firearm or making any signal or by any means whatsoever, intentionally occasioning a false alarm or disturbance in any station, post, camp or quarters.5.Making or spreading reports calculated to cause alarm or despondency.6.( 1 )Deserting from the Police Force or refusing to serve therein or advising, persuading or assisting any other member to desert or refuse to serve, or knowingly receiving or entertaining any deserter, or, on discov-ery of a deserter, failing to give information thereof to a superior, or failing to arrest or take every means to cause such deserter to be apprehended.( 2 )If on the trial on any charge for contravening subparagraph ( 1 ) it appears upon the evidence that the accused was not guilty of contravening that subparagraph but was guilty of contravening paragraph 12 or 13, he may be found guilty of contravening the provisions of that paragraph.7.Being insubordinate by word , act or demeanour .8.Being oppressive or tyrannical towards a junior in rank .9.Assaulting any other member.10 .Without good and sufficient cause, uttering or making in any way any threat against any other member.11.Without good and sufficient cause , disobey or refuse or omit or neglect to carry out any lawful order , write or otherwise .12.Leaving his guard, post, beat, patrol or other place of duty without permission or reasonable excuse or, on being required to remain at a station or in camp, quarters or a district, absenting himself therefrom without leave or reasonable excuse.13.( 1 )Being absent without leave.( 2 )Without permission or reasonable excuse , fail to attend or being late for any parade or duty .(3)Leaving any parade or duty without permission.14.Escaping from lawful custody.15.interfere with any guard , post or sentry or rescue any person in custody .16 .Sleeping, loitering or committing any irregularity when on duty.17 .Being drunk on or off duty or rend himself unfit for duty by indulge in liquor or drug .18.When require on reasonable ground by an officer of or above the rank of superintendent to do so , fail to furnish a true and detailed statement of his liability and of his ability to meet them .19 .Unnecessarily detaining any person in custody.20.release any person in custody without proper authority , or by any wilful act or negligence suffer a person in custody to escape .21.Using unnecessary violence towards , or neglect or in any way ill – treat any person in custody or other person with whom he may be bring into contact in the execution of his duty .22.Malingering or feigning disease or illness, or obtaining relief from duty on a false or exaggerated plea of injury, illness, pain or sickness.23 .Wilfully producing disease or infirmity or wilfully maiming or injuring himself or any other member, whether at the instance of such a member or not, or wilfully causing himself to be maimed or injured by any other person, with intent thereby to render himself or such other member unfit for duty.24 .wilfully or negligently disclose or communicate any secret or confidential information to any person or member other than the person or member for whom such information is officially intend , or divulge any matter or reveal any document which it is his duty as a member to keep secret .25.Without authority, communicating, directly or indirectly, to the press or to the public any matter or thing concerning the Police Force, the communication whereof results in or is reasonably likely to result in any prejudice to the administration, discipline or efficiency of the Police Force.26.Causing any person to interfere, through solicitation by undue means, in his own interests or in the interests of any applicant for promotion, transfer or preferment of any kind.27.Soliciting or accepting any bribe or soliciting any present, reward or consideration whatsoever in connection with his position or duties as al member, or accepting such a present, reward or consideration without the authority of the Commissioner-General.28 .( 1 )Wilfully or negligently losing, destroying, injuring or damaging any property, of the State or property in the possession of the State, or for which the State is responsible, or of the Police Force, or of any member, or any mess, canteen, club, fund or other institution of the Police Force, or of any person in custody, or any exhibit in a criminal case or property, lost, found, taken for safe keeping or unclaimed.( 2 )For the purposes of subparagraph ( 1 )—“property” means any movable or immovable property, including—( a )money, foreign currency and negotiable instruments;( b )vehicles and aircraft.29 .Improperly obtaining, appropriating, withholding, applying, disposing of or using any property referred to in paragraph 28 .30.unnecessarily or negligently discharge any firearm .31.Knowingly making a false entry in any official book, diary, form or document or wilfully omitting to make any entry therein which it is his duty to have entered.32 .Knowingly making a false return, report or statement or being privy thereto, or neglecting to make or send any report which it is his duty to have made or sent.33.Wilfully defacing or refusing to sign any official book, record, voucher or pay-list without just and reasonable grounds or with intent to deceive or prejudice the course of any investigation or any person, suppressing, concealing, withholding, defacing, obliterating, erasing, altering, destroying or doing away with any report, return, register, book, page, record, form, claim, letter or any other document or any part thereof relative to his functions or duties.34.Omitting or neglecting to perform any duty, or performing any duty in any improper manner.35 .Acting in an unbecoming or disorderly manner or in any manner prejudicial to good order or discipline or reasonably likely to bring discredit to the Police Force.36.Entering, while on duty, any place licensed for the sale of intoxicating liquor, except in the immediate exercise of his duty or when necessarily requiring a meal or accommodation.37 .Without the approval of the Commissioner – General , carry on any trade , occupation or business , either directly or through the agency of any other person .38.Falsely imputing improper conduct on the part of any member or making frivolous or vexatious complaints.39 .Improperly using his position as a member for his private advantage.40.Failing to account for or make a prompt and true return of any money or property received by him in his official capacity.41.make any anonymous communication to the Minister , the Commissioner – General , a superior or a person in authority .42.Signing or circulating any petition with regard to the efficient running of the Police Force except in accordance with the provisions of this Act or any other enactment.43.Without the consent of the Commissioner – General , convene or attend any meeting to discuss condition of service of the Police Force or individual member except in accordance with the provision of the Act .44.Attempting to commit, aiding the commission of, conspiring with another to aid or procure the commission of or to commit, inciting another to commit or being an accessory after the fact to the commission of any offence specified in this Schedule.45.knowingly give false information in any application for a loan or other financial assistance from fund at the disposal the State or the Police Force or , having been grant such loan or financial assistance for a specific purpose , fail without good cause to use it for the purpose specify or , without authority , using it for some other purpose .46 .In this capacity as a member , writing , sign or give any testimonial of character or other recommendation with the object of obtain employment for any person or support an application for a grant of a licence of any kind :Provided that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to the writing, signing or giving of any such testimonial or other recommendation which is authorized by the Commissioner-General or which is required by the State or under the provisions of any enactment.47.( 1 )While off duty in uniform in a public place or while on duty at any place , being , through wilfulness or neglect , improperly dress or dirty or untidy in his person , uniform or accoutrement .( 2 )For the purpose of subparagraph ( 1 ), a member shall be deemed to be in uniform and improperly dressed if he wears any article of uniform mentioned in dress orders at the same time that he wears, in such manner as to be visible, any article of civilian clothing.48.( 1 )Actively participating in politics.( 2 )Without derogation from the generality of subparagraph ( 1 ), a Regular Force member shall be deemed to be actively participating in politics if he—( a )joins or associates himself with an organization or movement of a political character; or( b )canvass any person in support of , or otherwise actively assist , an organization or movement of a political character ; or( c )displays or wears rosettes, favours, clothing, symbols, posters, placards or like articles having a political significance; or( d )attends a political meeting or assembly when wearing the uniform of the Police Force or any part of such uniform likely to identify him as a Regular Force member:Provided that the provisions of this subparagraph shall not apply to a Regular Force member who attends such meeting or assembly in uniform in the course of his duties; or( e )asks questions from the floor at a political meeting; or(f)publishes views of a political character or causes them to be published in speeches, broadcasts, letters to the press, articles, leaflets, posters, placards, books or otherwise; or(g)does any other act whereby the public or any member thereof might reasonably be induce to identify him with an organization or movement of any political character .(3)Nothing in this paragraph contained shall be construed as precluding a Regular Force member from—( a )asking questions from the floor at a political meeting held with the permission of the Minister at which the audience consists only of persons in the employment of the State; or( b )explain Government policy in the course of his duty as a Regular Force member ; or( c )performing the duties of a returning officer, polling officer or like officer at a Parliamentary or local election or at a referendum; or( d )vote at a parliamentary or local election or at a referendum .( 4 )For the purpose of subparagraphs ( a ) and ( b ) or paragraph ( 2 ), a trade union or employees organization shall be deemed to be an organization or movement of a political character:provide that this subparagraph does not apply to membership of the Zimbabwe Republic Police Association establish under this Act