[POL 10,060] Offences against discipline12 

Any officer who commits any of the following offences—

(1) uses traitorous or disloyal words regarding the State;

(2) is disrespectful in word, act or demeanour to any of his or her superior officers;

(3) wilfully disobeys any lawful order;

(4) is guilty of drunkenness;

(5) drinks intoxicating liquor whilst on duty for which he or she has been detailed;

(6) parades for duty for which he or she has been detailed, under the influence of liquor;

(7) absents himself or herself without leave;

(8) sleeps at his or her post or leaves it without authority before being regularly relieved, except in fresh pursuit of any person whom it is his or her duty to apprehend;

(9) being under arrest or confinement, leaves or escapes from arrest or confinement before he or she is set at liberty by proper authority;

(10) neglects or without reasonable excuse refuses to assist in the apprehension of any person whom it is his or her duty to apprehend, when lawfully ordered to assist;

(11) negligently allows any prisoner who is committed to his or her charge or whom it is his or her duty to keep or guard, to escape;

(12) offers or uses unwarranted violence to or ill treats any person in his or her custody;

(13) is guilty of cowardice;

(14) discharges any arms without just cause or orders;

(15) without reasonable cause fails to present himself or herself at any parade or for any duty at the time appointed by his or her superior officer;

(16) pawns, sells, loses by neglect, makes away with, wilfully or by neglect damages, or fails to report any damage to, any arms, ammunition, equipment, clothing or other appointment supplied to him or her or any other public property committed to his or her charge;

(17) without due authority parades for or attends any duty out of uniform or dirty or untidy in his or her person, arms, clothing or equipment;

(18) is slovenly, inattentive, uncivil or quarrelsome;

(19) without due authority discloses or conveys any information concerning any investigation or other police matter;

(20) malingers, feigns or wilfully produces any disease or infirmity;

(21) is guilty of wilful misconduct or wilfully disobeys, whether in hospital or otherwise, any orders, by means of which misconduct or disobedience he or she produces or aggravates any disease or infirmity or delays its cure;

(22) incurs debt beyond his or her means;

(23) resists or escapes from an escort whose duty it is to bring him or her or have him or her in charge;

(24) makes any false statement upon joining the Force;

(25) refuses or, by culpable neglect, omits to make, sign or send any report or return which it is his or her duty to make, sign or send;

(26) knowingly makes any false accusation against any other police officer or any other person;

(27) in making any complaint against any other police officer or any other person, makes a false statement affecting the character of such police officer or other person, knowing such statement to be false, or knowingly and wilfully suppresses any material facts;

(28) omits to make any entry in any official document, book or paper which he or she is required to make in the execution of his or her duty;

(29) makes or signs any false report or statement in any official record or document knowing or having reasonable grounds to believe that the same is false;

(30) engages in any employment or office other than in accordance with his or her duties as a police officer;

(31) takes any active part in any political organisation or electoral campaign or engages in any other activity which is likely to interfere with the impartial discharge of his or her duties as a police officer;

(32) takes part in any professional sport;

(33) becomes security for any person, or engages in any loan transaction with any person, without the permission in writing of the Commissioner;

(34) if called upon by any gazetted officer to furnish a full and true statement of his or her financial position, fails to do so;

(35) in any way obstructs the duties of any other police officer;

(36) is disobedient of, or negligent in carrying out, any other of the provisions of the Act or of these Regulations, not herein expressly mentioned, or any lawful order of any superior officer in the Force; or

(37) is guilty of any other act, conduct, disorder or neglect to the prejudice of good order or discipline,

shall be guilty of an offence against discipline for the purposes of section 30 of the Act.

[reg 12 am LN 99 of 2016 reg 205, effective 1 December 2016]