PART 7
POLICE REWARD FUND
39. Reward Fund
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(1) All fines and penalties imposed on any inspector, subordinate officer, or constable or any other person under the authority of this Act, and all penalties and proportions of penalties awarded to any police officer on any summary conviction as the prosecutor of any information, shall be received by the Commissioner of Police or by the senior officer of the Force in Saint Lucia and shall be placed on deposit in the Treasury to a separate account to be called “The Police Reward Fund”.
However, where in any statute in force in Saint Lucia it is enacted that any part or share of any seizure or forfeiture, or proceeds thereof, is or may be awarded to any person as prosecutor, informer, or otherwise, or any such police officer under any such enactment as aforesaid, such police officer shall have for his or her own personal use and benefit the share or portion so awarded to him or her as aforesaid.
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(2) Payment shall not be made from the Police Reward Fund except upon the authority of the Commissioner of Police.
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(3) The Commissioner of Police may, in his or her discretion, sanction payments from the Police Reward Fund for any of the following purposes—
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(a) payments to subordinate officers or constables as rewards for meritorious acts or service in the execution of duty, if such payments are not authorised to be met from any other fund;
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(b) assistance to the wives or families of deceased police officers below the rank of Assistant Superintendent or to any such police officers declared from the Force as medically unfit for further service;
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(c) expenditure for the benefit and advancement of authorised recreation and sport and other branches of police activity organised within the Force;
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(d) the purchase of ammunition for the encouragement of range practice among police officers; and
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(e) expenditure for the benefit and advancement of education organised within the Force.
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(4) Any police officer who is dismissed from the Force shall forfeit all claims on the Police Reward Fund.
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(5) An account shall be kept by the Commissioner of Police, in such form as the senior auditor of Saint Lucia may approve, of all sums paid and of all disbursements made in relation to the Police Reward Fund and such account shall be duly audited by the auditor.