71. Right to prosecute police cases
Where any police officer lays an information or makes a complaint against any person, any police officer not below the rank of corporal may appear before the magistrate or justice of the peace who is trying or enquiring into the matter of the said information or complaint, and shall have the same privileges as to addressing the said magistrate or justice of the peace, and as to examining the witnesses adduced in the said matter, as the police officer who laid the information or made the complaint would have had.