Further the Duties of the SHO include

• Personal leadership and supervision of duties and work of all the staff and men allotted to his charge including their welfare, discipline and morale.

  
  

• Organizing and active participation in crime prevention and detection, maintenance of law and order and anti-terror operations, dispersal of unlawful assemblies and prevention of breach of peace and public order.

  
  

• Organizing beats and patrols and its personal supervision.

  
  

• Designing and implementation of policing schemes suited to such beat areas and securing co-operation of public and maître committees.

  
  

• Obtaining prompt information about activities in the field of Communal, Caste, Political, Student, or other segments of society including subversive elements and identify trouble spots and trouble mongers and to take effective preventive measures like launching security proceedings under Cr.P.C.

  
  

• Maintenance of good public relations in his station limits.

  
  

• Visiting and spending adequate time in the villages, localities of his station limit.

  
  

• Maintenance of effective surveillance over bad characters, anti-social elements, and rowdies of the area under his charge.

  
  

• Constantly endeavor to maintain high professional standard and keep himself updated, well informed and motivated.

  
  

• Pursuit and apprehension of offenders on available clues and information.

  
  

• Collection of information on all important matters relevant to police duties and his functions and communicating the same to his immediate superior police officer and to other concerned superior police officers promptly.