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REPORT OF U. S. INDIAN INSPECTOR FOR INDIAN TERRITORY
1897 Department of Interior Report
Early in the year the following instructions were issued for the guidance of Indian police at this agency, and the force has been held to strict account for the pro observance of the same:
General rules and regulations far the guidance of Indian policemen.
1. Every member of the police force of this agency must render prompt obedience to superiors, conform strictly to the prescribed rules and regulations, be orderly a; respectful in deportment, and refrain from profane, insolent, or vulgar language.
2. Must not only perform regular duty assigned, but be ready for special service all times.
3. Indian police have no authority to deputize any person as their proxy assistant.
4. No member shall be allowed to be concerned, directly or indirectly, in as compromise or arrangement between a party suspected of crime and the party allege to have been injured.
5. No member shall drink intoxicating liquor under any circumstances.
6. No member shall maltreat or use unnecessary violence toward a prisoner or other person.
7. Charges against a member of the police force must be made to the agent by th injured parties.
8. No member of the force shall sell, barter, exchange or loan, or give away any clothes, arms, etc., that may be furnished by this agency, or that may be captures by him in the exercise of his duties.
9. All weapons captured by Indian policemen- must be turned over to this office with a statement showing the circumstances and reasons for the capture.
10. Any member may be removed from office for intoxication; for willful noncompliance with rules or disobedience of orders; for violent, insolent, or vulgar language or behavior; for willfully maltreating prisoners or using unnecessary violence, or for committing a crime or misdemeanor or neglect of duty.
11. On the resignation, death, or discharge of a member of the police force, all Government property, except the uniform, mast be returned to this office.
12. In all cases members of the police force must act in concert, and with coolness and firmness.
13. Indian police must keep this office at all times fully informed of persons introducing cattle, cutting or removing timber or prairie hay from the public domain, or committing any other unlawful acts.
14. Policemen will be especially vigilant in detecting and arresting perpetrators for stealing timber from the reservation, setting fire to prairies, selling intoxicating liquors or having them in possession, herding or driving cattle on or through any of the nations of the Five Tribes by non-citizens without permission.
15. The members of the police force should cooperate as far as possible with the local and Federal officers consistent with Federal and local law.
16. It has been ascertained that 5 per cent of the crime in the Indian Territory is directly traceable to intoxicating liquors. Indian policemen are instructed to keep vigilant watch against the introduction of intoxicating liquors. At express or freight offices you will, on having reasonable grounds of suspicion that certain particular packages contain intoxicating liquors, open and examine such suspicious packages, and if intoxicants are found you will immediately destroy the same and make full report thereof to this agency. In making these seizures of intoxicating liquors, you must make every search in the presence of the railroad or express agent, must not permit outside persons to be present under any pretext, must examine or search only such p as there are reasonable grounds for suspecting contain intoxicants, and must handle a all packages with proper care, remembering that Indian policemen are responsible for damage committed.
17. Indian police are furnished with commissions, which must be exhibited when authority is questioned.
18. While it is not expected nor desirable that Indian police should ask permission to absent themselves from their usual post-office addresses, it is expected that you will be required to report such absence to this agency for its information.
19. It is the duty of the Indian policemen to sustain the honor and good reputation of the force, and they must report any member of the force acting in such a way as to lower and degrade their credit and good standing.
20. Report also, immediately upon the receipt of this notice, what property you have belonging to the Government, as United States police shield or badge, arms, uniform, etc.
21. Acknowledge receipt of these instructions and carefully preserve them. Special instructions will be issued from time to time as occasion may require, copies of which will be furnished you.