Functions and duties of Police Force
4.—(1)  Subject to this Act, the Police Force has the following functions throughout Singapore:
(a)to maintain law and order;
(b)to preserve public peace;
(c)to prevent and detect crimes;
(d)to apprehend offenders;
(e)to exercise any other function conferred on it by or under this Act or any other written law.
(2)  The duties of the Police Force are to take lawful measures for —
(a)preserving the public peace;
(b)preventing and detecting crimes and offences;
(c)apprehending all persons whom police officers are legally authorised to apprehend;
(d)regulating processions and assemblies in public roads, public places or places of public resort;
(e)regulating the traffic upon public thoroughfares, and removing obstructions therefrom;
(f)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 must have free admission to all such places and meetings and assemblies while open to any member of the public;
(g)assisting in carrying out the revenue, excise, sanitary, conservancy, quarantine and immigration laws;
(h)assisting in preserving order in any port, harbour, train station and airport in Singapore;
(i)executing summonses, subpoenas, warrants, commitments and other process issued by courts and Justices of the Peace;
(j)disseminating information to and advising the public and conducting prosecutions;
(k)taking action for the safe custody of lost property and for the disposal of unclaimed property;
(l)assisting in the protection of life and property at fires;
(m)protecting persons from injury or death, and public property from damage or loss, whether arising from criminal acts or in any other way;
(n)attending the criminal courts and, if specially ordered, the civil courts, and keeping order in those courts;
(o)escorting and guarding prisoners (including those in remand); and
(p)executing such other duties as may by any written law be imposed on a police officer.
[10/2015]