Section 96Part 6 — Discipline
Serious offences by police officers
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A police officer who —
begins, excites, causes or joins in any mutiny or sedition amongst the Service, or does not use that police officer's utmost endeavours to suppress such mutiny or sedition coming to that police officer's knowledge, or conspires with any other person to cause any mutiny or sedition, or being cognisant of any mutiny or sedition, or intended mutiny or sedition, does not without delay give that information to a senior officer; or
strikes or offers violence to a senior officer,
commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for three years.
A police officer present at any assemblage tending to riot, who does not use that police officer's utmost endeavours to suppress such assemblage, commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of three thousand dollars or to imprisonment for one year, or to both.
A police officer who, absents themselves from duty without leave or reasonable cause for a period exceeding twenty-eight days, shall, unless the contrary is proved, be considered to have had the intention not to return to the Service and shall be struck off the strength.