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(1) The Superintendent of Police, Additional Superintendent of Police or any Assistant Superintendent of Police may for the discharge of his duty as such police officer, be permitted to enter the prison only during the working hours before the prison lockup. Only in very special and emergent situations, they may be permitted to enter the prison after working hours by the Director General. (2) Police officers of rank subordinate to those specified in clause (1), may be permitted to enter the prison during working hours, for the following purposes, namely ;– (a) to recognize old offenders; (b) for identification of prisoners. (3) A police officer investigating a criminal offence may be permitted to record the statement of a prisoner in the presence of a prison officer designated by the Superintendent, during working hours. (4) No police officer shall, at any time, upon any pretext whatsoever be allowed to enter any female ward or any cell or compartment in which any female is for the time being confined or present without the permission in writing of the Superintendent. Police Officer to be in uniform.