Section 38

preserving the public peace;

preventing and detecting crimes and offences;

apprehending all persons whom police officers are legally authorised to apprehend;

regulating processions and assemblies in public roads, public places or places of public resort;

regulating the traffic upon public thoroughfares, and removing obstructions therefrom;

preserving order in public places and places of public resort, at public meetings and in assemblies for public amusements, for which purpose any police officer on duty shall have free admission to all such places and meetings and assemblies while open to any member of the public;

assisting in carrying out the revenue, excise, sanitary, conservancy, quarantine and immigration laws;

assisting in preserving order in the ports and harbours and airports of Singapore, and in enforcing port regulations;

executing summonses, subpoenas, warrants, commitments and other process issued by courts and Justices of the Peace;

exhibiting informations and conducting prosecutions;

protecting unclaimed and lost property, and finding the owners thereof;

taking charge of and impounding stray animals;

assisting in the protection of life and property at fires;

protecting public property from loss or injury;

attending the criminal courts and, if specially ordered the civil courts, and keeping order therein;

escorting and guarding prisoners;

executing such other duties as may by any written law be imposed on a police officer. [37