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Art. 7.
Van alle des nachts uit te zenden patrouilles of te leggen hinderlagen
geeft hij tijdig kennis aan den Chef van den Staf. Rukken des nachts
patrouilles uit van de posten of van andere korpsen, dan zullen de comman
danten bij tijds den commandant der Maréchaussee daarvan mededeeling doen,
die daarop met den Chef van den Staf de vereischte maatregelen vaststelt
om botsingen te voorkomen.
In eiken goed bestuurden staat wordt er streng tegen gewaakt,
dat het leger niet het domein der politie en deze niet het domein
van het leger betreedt. Tegen dit beginsel werd in Atjeh gezondigd.
Welke diensten men in het Britsch-Indische leger aan den soldaat
mag opdragen, leest men in de „Regulations and Orders for the army
of the Bengal Presidency":
„Soldiers of the regular army are only to be employed for purely military
duties, and for which not mere watchmen but disciplined military sentries
are considered necessary on essentially military grounds. Where guards
are required to keep watch over stores, godowns (1), buildings, etc., the
department requiring them, wether commissariat, public works, or other,
is to arrange with the civil authorities for the provision of police-guards
or watchmen (the cost of which is debitable to the department concerned),
unless, as above stated, military considerations require the employment
of a military guard."
„Soldiers of the regular army are not to be employed for the purpose
of escorting jail prisoners, nor in the custody of convicts, nor on other
duties ordinarily of a civil nature and of an unmilitary character, unless,
with regard to the rules contained in the two preceding paragraphs, their
employment is on military grounds considered absolutely necessary."
De in de voorgaande alinea bedoelde paragraphen luiden
„Whenever, in consequence of police not being available for the duty,
military authorities are called upon to furnish escorts from the troops
under their command, an immediate report is to be made by the mili
tary officer detailing the escort to the local government, in view to its
being at once ascertained wether there really existed necessity for not
employing or for denying the services of the police."
„Whenever military escorts are applied for by the civil powers, a writ
ten declaration is to be made by the proper police officer as to the state
of the country through which the escort will have to pass, giving the
reasons why the police is not sufficient in strength to afford the requi-
red protection. This report is to be delivered to the senior military
(I) Goedangs.
