Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(a) The State Government may appoint a Police officer to be the Commissioner of Police for 1 [any] area specified in a notification issued by the State Government in this behalf and published in the Official Gazette. I. These words were substituted for the words "Greater Bombay or any other" by the Gujarat Adaptation of Laws (State and Concurrent Subjets) Order, 1960. 1951: Born. XXII] Gujarat Police Act, 1951 (b) The State Govenment may also appoint an Additional Commissioner of Police for the areas specified in clause (a). ( c) The Commissioner shall exercise such powers, perfom1 such functions and duties and shall have such responsibilities and authority as are provided by or under this Act or as may otherwise be directed by the state Government by a general or special order : Provided that the State Government may direct that any of the powers, functions, duties, responsibilities or authority exercisable or to be performed or discharged by the Commissioner shall be exercised, performed or discharged subject to the control of the Inspector General : Provided further that the area for which a Commissioner has been appointed under this section shall not, unless otherwise provided by or under this Act, be under the charge of the District Magistrate or the District Superintendent for any of the purposes of this Act, notwithstanding the fact that such area forms part of a district within the territorial jurisdiction for which a District Magistrate or a District Superintendent may have been appointed. 1[7 A. (I) The State Government may, having regard to the population in an area or the circumstances prevailing in such area, by an order, separate the investigating police from the law and order police wing in such area to ensure the speedier investigation, better expertise and improved rapport with the people. (2) Such investigating police wing shall investigate the serious crimes such as offence punishable under Chapter XII, XVI, XVII of the Indian Penal Code, Offences of Terrorist Activities, Cyber Offences, Inter State Offences and such other offences as the State Government may, by an order, direct. (3) The Director General and Inspector General of Police or an officer authorized by him shall co-ordinate between the Law and Order Police and the Investigating Police wings.] 7 Separation of investigating wing and law and order n·ing.