Section 17Part 3 — Appointments, Enlistments, Service and Discharge
Police officer ceasing to belong to the Service to hand over public property in that person's charge
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17. (1) A police officer ceasing to be a member of the Service shall forthwith deliver up to a person appointed by the Commissioner for that purpose or to the police officer in charge at the place at which that police officer was last stationed, the identity card issued to that police officer under section 11 and all arms, equipment, uniforms and other appointments which have been supplied to that police officer which are the property of the Government.
An ex-police officer who, having ceased to belong to the Service, fails without good cause to comply with subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of three thousand dollars or to imprisonment for one year, and to pay the value of the property not delivered up, which value may be ascertained by a summary court and recovered in the same manner as a fine or deducted in whole or in part from any credit due to the ex-police officer.