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Functions of District Police Complaints Authority.- The District Police Complaints Authority shall- (i) forward the complaints of criminal misconduct, received directly by it , to the State Police Complaints Authority for further action; (ii) forward the complaints of other misconduct received by it, made against Non-Gazetted Police Officers, to the District Superintendent of Police, Commandant of Battalion or other disciplinary authority, as the case may be; (iii) forward complaints containing allegations of other misconduct against any Gazetted Police Officer to the State Government, for further action, under intimation to the State Police Complaints Authority; (iv) monitor the status of departmental inquiries initiated on the basis of complaints of misconduct received by it against Non- Gazetted Police Officers, and obtain reports from the District Superintendent of Police, Commandant of Battalion, or other disciplinary authority, with such frequency as may be specified. The authority shall also monitor departmental inquiries against Non-Gazetted Police Officers initiated in the District on the orders of the State Police Complaints Authority; (v) issue appropriate advice to the disciplinary authority concerned, in cases where the original complaint was received by the District Police Complaints Authority, for expeditious completion of inquiry in any case, if, in the THE HIMACHAL PRADESH POLICE ACT, 2007 53 opinion of the District Police Complaints Authority, such an inquiry is getting unduly delayed; (vi) call for a report from the disciplinary authority, and issue appropriate advice for further action including, if necessary, a fresh inquiry by another officer, when a complainant, being dissatisfied by an inordinate delay in the process of departmental inquiry into his complaint of misconduct, brings such matter to the notice of the District Police Complaints Authority; and (vii) report to the State Police Complaints Authority cases where departmental inquiry into misconduct in respect of a Non- Gazetted Police Officer is not concluded in time by the Inquiry Officer concerned inspite of the advice of the District Police Complaints Authority to the disciplinary authority: Provided that a District Police Complaints Authority may at any time, for reasons to be recorded in writing, and subject to the directions of the State Police Complaints Authority, decide not to take further action on a complaint of misconduct, if it appears that the complaint is incorrect in material particulars or vexatious or malicious, with the intention of impeding the exercise of lawful authority: Provided further that in case of an intentionally false or vexatious or malicious complaint, the District Police Complaints Authority may recommend to the State Police Complaints Authority, the imposition of a fine not exceeding twenty five thousand rupees as may be deemed appropriate in the circumstances of the case. 97.Report of the District Police Complaints Authority.- Each District Police Complaints Authority shall prepare and submit to the State Police Complaints Authority an annual report at the end of each calendar year, inter alia, containing- (i) the numbers and types of cases of “criminal misconduct” and “other misconduct” forwarded by it to the State Police Complaints Authority and the disciplinary authority respectively, during the year; (ii) the number and types of cases monitored by it during the year; (iii) the number and types of cases of “misconduct” referred to it by the complainants upon being dissatisfied by the departmental inquiry into their complaints; and cases in which advice was issued by it to the disciplinary authority for further action; and (iv) identifiable patterns of misconduct if any on the part of Police Officers in the District and recommendations on measures to enhance police accountability. 54 THE HIMACHAL PRADESH POLICE ACT, 2007