Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, create one or more special police districts embracing such railway areas in the State as it may specify, and appoint a Superintendent of Police, one or more Assistant and Deputy Superintendent and such other police officers for each such special district as it may deem fit. The State Government may also appoint for the whole State an officer not below the rank of Deputy Inspector General of Police to supervise the functions of the Railway Police. (2) Subject to the control of the Director General of Police, such police officers shall discharge police functions connected with the administration of railways situated within their respective charges, and such other functions as the State Government may from time to time assign to 12 them. (3) Any police officer whom the State Government may by general or special order empower to act under this sub- section, may, subject to any orders which the government may make in this behalf, exercise within the special district or any part thereof any of the powers of an Officer-in- Charge of a Police Station in that district. While exercising such powers he shall, subject to any such order as aforesaid, be deemed to be an Officer-in-Charge of the Police Station discharging the functions of such officer within the limits of his Station. (4) Subject to any general or special orders which the State Government may make in this behalf, such police officers shall, in the discharge of their functions, be vested within every part of the State, with the powers and privileges and be subject to the liabilities of police officers under this Act or any other law for the time being in force. State intelligence and Criminal Investigation Department