372-1. Escorts by road should report their movements to Traffic, Highway and all police stations en-route. If the escort vehicle has a wireless or other communication, the movements may be intimated by wireless or cell phone as the case may be to the police stations. They need not reveal the purpose on wireless.
2. Escorts must return in a body with the officer in charge.
3. Escorts arriving at Hyderabad should report at the City Police Control Room, Saifabad, Hyderabad. The Officer-in-charge of PCR at Hyderabad should make necessary entries in the Control Room General Diary. They may deposit their arms and kits in the Sultan Bazar police station in Hyderabad or the railway police station in Secunderabad or at PCR or as directed by the Officer-in-charge of Police Control Room. The Commissioner of Police will be responsible for necessary arrangements and safety of the Arms and equipment deposited at any of the places indicated above or as directed by PCR.
4. The word treasure used in the following orders means mostly cash or in rare occasions valuables.
5. Police cash escorts should travel by night only on roads where night travel is safe, but should refuse to allow transhipment of cash after dark
Strength of cash escorts by road and rail
373-1-A. The movement of government treasure particularly for facilitating central and state government transactional requirements was initially carried out by government treasuries. However, in course of time, with the establishment of Reserve Bank and its arrangements with the agency banks like State Bank of India and others at several places, most of the treasuries have become non-banking treasuries and movement of treasure is being effected by the Reserve Bank to its agencies.
B. In Andhra Pradesh, currency chests are maintained with public sector/nationalized banks and with non-banking sub-treasuries. In addition there are small coin depots in the state of which 197 are with State Bank of India, 119 with State Bank of Hyderabad and 62 with other public sector banks. These chests and non-banking sub-treasuries have to be supplied with currency and coins by the RBI periodically, apart from supply of coins to other Issue Offices i.e. Chennai, Bangalore and Tiruvananthapuram. Further the RBI also issues diversion orders for supply of funds from one chest to other chests located in Andhra Pradesh which also need escort to accompany such remittances.
C. It may therefore be observed from the statement that at any point of time in case of a note remittance, the maximum value of any single remittance is not more than Rs.62 crores in case of Rs.100/- denomination. Similarly the remittance value of coins also do not exceed more than Rs.100 lakhs. During July 1996 to June 1997, Reserve Bank of India made 241 remittances aggregating Rs.1984 crores. In addition 432 inter chest diversions were made aggregating Rs.3755 crores moving treasure from surplus to deficit currency chests at agency banks.
D. The scale of escorts for cash in the schedule below is given as a general rule, to be increased if local conditions warrant.
Amounts
By Road
By Rail
Over
Not Exceeding
By Bus Or By Other Vehicles
By Day
By Night
In A Cubicle
In A Wagon
(Rs)
(Rs)
HCs'
PCs'
HCs'
PCs'
HCs'
PCs'
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15,00,000/-
1
2
1
4
1
2
1. A strength of 1 HC and 7 PCs for posting sentries,1 on each side of the wagon,at all halting places,each watch being of 3 hours duration.
15,00,000/-
25,00,000/-
1
3
2
6
1
3
25,00,000/-
50,00,000/-
1
4
2
8
1
4
50,00,000/-
1,00,00,000/-
1
5
2
10
1
5
1,00,00,000/-
5,00,00,000/-
1
6
2
12
1
6
5,00,00,000/-
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1
8
2
16
1
8
2. For every addl. wagon, an addl. strength of 6 PCs per wagon.
Where two Head Constables are provided, an ARSI and a Head Constable may be deputed instead of two HCs.
While escorting cash or other valuables exceeding Rs.25 lakhs by rail, two sentries must be posted, one on each side of the compartment, at all important stations and at other stations where the train stops for any length of time.
Where the value of a remittance exceeds Rs.25 lakhs but not 1 crore, a Sub-Inspector or Reserve Sub-Inspector should be in charge of the escort, and where the value exceeds 1 crore, an Inspector or Reserve Inspector should be in charge of the escort.
When the escort has to be sent partly by rail and partly by road, the SP of the district, where the rail journey terminates, should be informed sufficiently in advance so that adequate number of police men as required by the situation may be kept ready.In Hyderabad City, the Commandant,State Reserve Police at CPL, Amberpet,will supplement escorts wherever necessary.
Every member of the escort party should carry a fire arm with at least 10 rounds of ammunition.
