(1) It is the duty of the Force to take lawful measures for—
(a) preserving the public peace;
(b) preventing and detecting crimes and other infractions of the law;
(c) apprehending and causing to be apprehended persons who shall have committed, or shall be charged with or suspected of having committed or having abetted the commission of, or being about to commit any crime, or offence;
(d) control of procession and assemblies in public places;
(e) controlling the traffic upon public thoroughfares and removing obstructions therefrom;
(f) preserving order and decorum in public places and places of public resort, at public meetings and in assemblies for public amusements;
(g) assisting in carrying out the revenue, excise, quarantine, emigration and immigration laws;
(h) assisting in preserving order in the different ports and harbours in Saint Lucia, and in enforcing the port regulations therein;
(i) executing summonses, subpoenas, warrants, commitments and other criminal or quasi-criminal process issued by the several magistrates, justices of the peace and coroners on complaints or proceedings before them;
(j) exhibiting information and conducting prosecutions for crimes and offences;
(k) protecting unclaimed and lost property and finding the owners thereof;
(l) taking charge of and impounding any animal found straying in any public place;
(m) assisting in the protection of life and property in cases of fire, hurricane, earthquake, flood and other disasters;
(n) protecting public property from loss or injury;
(o) attending the High Court and the Magistrates' Courts and keeping order in and within the precincts and in the vicinity of the said Courts;
(p) escorting prisoners to and from prisons and places of detention;
(q) doing and performing generally the duties appertaining to the office of a police officer.
(2) Every police officer is liable for service in defence of Saint Lucia under the authority of section 6 and during the continuance of such service the Cabinet may make any regulations in that behalf, or may suspend for the like period the provisions of any section of this Act.