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Police Commissioner Of Kolkata
The Commissioner of Police, Kolkata is the chief of the Kolkata Police. The Kolkata Police Commissioner is appointed by the Government of West Bengal and reports independently to the Home Secretary of the State. The headquarter is at 18, Lal Bazar Street, near B.B.D. Bagh area of Central Kolkata. The commissioner is an Indian Police Service officer of the rank of Additional Director General (ADG) of Police. The person heads the almost 35,000 strong metropolitan police force in a jurisdiction consisting of approximately 243 km2 area and is the home to 14,617,992 people (2011 census figures). List of Commissioners of Police, Kolkata See also * Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate * Commissioner of Police, Bangalore City * Commissioner of Police, Delhi The Commissioner of Police, Delhi or Delhi Police Commissioner is the head of the Delhi Police, the Law enforcement agency of the 15 police districts (as of January 2019) of National Capital of India, Delhi. Origins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Police Service
The Indian Police Service ( IPS) is a civil service under the All India Services. It replaced the Indian Imperial Police in 1948, a year after India became independent from the British Raj. Along with the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and the Indian Forest Service (IFS), the IPS is one of the All India Services – its officers are employed by both the Union Government and the individual states. The service commands and provides leadership to State police forces and Union territories' police forces, Central Armed Police Forces ( BSF, SSB, CRPF, CISF, and ITBP), the National Security Guard (NSG), National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Intelligence Bureau (IB), Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), Special Protection Group (SPG), National Investigative Agency (NIA) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). History British India In 1861, the British Parliament introduced the ''Indian Councils Act, 1861''. The act created the foundation of a modern and pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prasun Mukherjee
Prasun Mukherjee (born 1950) the former Commissioner of Police in the city of Kolkata (Kolkata Police), West Bengal, India and a senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officer. In 2006 he was elected President of the Cricket Association of Bengal but lost the next election and was replaced by Jagmohan Dalmiya in 2008. Early life Born in 1950, he earned a degree in mathematics from Patna University and qualified for the Civil Services and was allotted the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1973, with West Bengal Cadre. During his career so far in the IPS, he has held the following posts: *As Supernumerary ASP while under field training in Jalpaigiri *ASP & Sub Divisional Police Officer (SDPO), Arambagh *Additional Superintendent of Police (Addl SP), Birbhum *Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Detective Department (II), Calcutta Police *DCP, 1st Battalion, Calcutta Armed Police *DCP, North Division, Calcutta Police *SP, Howrah *Special Superintendent (SS) of Police, Criminal Investigat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commissioner Of Police, Delhi
The Commissioner of Police, Delhi or Delhi Police Commissioner is the head of the Delhi Police, the Law enforcement agency of the 15 police districts (as of January 2019) of National Capital of India, Delhi. Origins In the year 1966, the Government of India constituted the Delhi Police Commission headed by Justice G.D. Khosla to go into the problems faced by Delhi Police and it was on the basis of the Khosla Commission Report that the Delhi Police was reorganised. Four Police districts, namely, North, Central, South and New Delhi were constituted. The Delhi Police Commission also recommended the introduction of Police Commissioner system which was eventually adopted from 1 July 1978. Following the recommendations of "Khosla Commission", Commissioner of Police system in Delhi, the capital of India was started in 1978, with J.N. Chaturvedi being appointed as the first Police Commissioner of Delhi. It replaced the earlier Inspector General of Police system, where the Inspector Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commissioner Of Police, Bangalore City
The Commissioner of Police, Bangalore City is the head of the Bangalore City Police. Founded in July 1963, the post has been held by 32 officers of the Indian Police Service (IPS), the first of whom was C. Chandy. The average length of tenure is 1 year, 8 months; Bangalore's longest-serving Police Commissioner is P. G. Halarnkar, who held office for 3 years, 9 months in the mid-1980s. The current incumbent is Pratap Reddy, who has held office since May 2022. Past Commissioners See also * Commissioner of Police, Delhi * Police Commissioner of Mumbai * Police Commissioner of Kolkata The Commissioner of Police, Kolkata is the chief of the Kolkata Police. The Kolkata Police Commissioner is appointed by the Government of West Bengal and reports independently to the Home Secretary of the State. The headquarter is at 18, La ... References {{Use dmy dates, date=March 2020 Bangalore Indian police chiefs Karnataka Police ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate
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Rajesh Kumar (IPS)
Rajesh Kumar (born 26 January 1966) is an officer of the Indian Police Service (IPS) and a former Commissioner of Police, Kolkata. He is currently the Member-Secretary of the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB). Early life and education Rajesh was born on 26 January 1966, as the second child of Shyam Sunder Surolia and Draupadi Devi Surolia in the village of Mukundgarh, Jhunjhunu district, Rajasthan, India. He completed his schooling from the local school before moving with his family to Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan, in the 1970s to pursue his further studies. He completed his Masters in Commerce from the University of Rajasthan in the 1980s before writing the examinations to become a Chartered Accountant. Indian Police Service career Rajesh was selected as an officer in the Indian Police Service after passing the Union Public Service Commission’s Civil Services Examinations in 1989. He was a part of the 43rd RR training group at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anuj Sharma (IPS)
Anuj Sharma (born 27 March 1968)) is an officer of the Indian Police Service. He was the 40th and 42nd Commissioner of Police, Kolkata, having served from 19 February to 5 April 2019 and from 26 May 2019 to 7 February 2021. On 26 May 2019, Anuj Sharma was reinstated as the 42nd Commissioner of Police, Kolkata, replacing Dr. Rajesh Kumar. Education Anuj Sharma completed school education at La Martinière College, Lucknow in 1985. Sharma completed his BA and MA in Economics at Lucknow University in 1987 and 1989 respectively. Career Sharma qualified for the 1991 batch of the Indian Police Service. He was part of the 44th regular recruit training group at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy. He served as a Probationary Officer from 1991 to 1992, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police, Burdwan range from 1 June 2006 to 1 July 2008, DIG HQrs from 2 July 2008 to 5 August 2009, and DIG and Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of West Bengal from 6 August 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soumen Mitra
Soumen Mitra (born 16 December 1961) is an Indian police officer, who is serving as 43rd Police Commissioner of Kolkata on 8 February 2021, in the rank of DGP. Being an IPS officer, he was at 1988 cadre of IPS service from West Bengal. Early life and career Born in 1961 in Kolkata, Mitra was educated at St. Xavier's Collegiate School, Kolkata, Presidency College, Kolkata and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, completing his BA, MA and M.Phil. A graduate of History, he qualified for the Civil Services and was allotted the Indian Police Service, belonging to the 1988-batch in the West Bengal cadre. * A probationer in Darjeeling * Asst Commissioner of Police, Operations, Darjeeling * Sub-divisional Police Officer (SDPO), Barrackpore * Additional Superintendent of Police, Murshidabad * Additional Superintendent of Police, Asansol * Deputy Commissioner of Police, (Special), Detective Department, Kolkata Police * Superintendent of Police, Murshidabad * Deputy Commission ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surajit Kar Purkayastha
Surajit Kar Purkayastha ( bn, সুরজিৎ কর পুরকায়স্থ; born 1 January 1957) is a retired senior Indian Police Service officer of 1985 West Bengal cadre who served as the ''State Security Advisor'' of West Bengal from 1 June 2018 to 31 May 2021. Prior to that, he served as Director General of Police of West Bengal and was the 36th Police Commissioner of Kolkata. Education Purkayastha holds a Mechanical engineering degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur also completed PGDIT from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), New Delhi and after completion of his studies he joined Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation. Police career Purkayastha is an officer of 1985 West Bengal cadre, who completed his Indian Police Service training in Burdwan district. His first posting was at Bolpur subdivision as SDPO in Birbhum district. He has also worked as Additional Superintendent of Police in South 24 Parganas district and also as Addl. SP, Asanso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ranjit Kumar Gupta
Ranjit Kumar Gupta (often referred to as Ranjit Gupta) was Police Commissioner of Kolkata in the seventies and played a controversial role in tackling the Naxalite movement. He retired as the police chief of West Bengal. Career Gupta joined the Indian Police Service in 1943. He was trained along with Taslimuddin Ahmed, who remained a lifelong friend, but with whom he had a meeting only after the creation of Bangladesh; Taslimuddin was the IG East Pakistan before Bangladesh, during the military crackdown. Between 1943 and 1967 he served in various capacities, including SDPO in Chittagong District (pre-independence Bengal), responsible for liaison with the Indian Army during the war. It was during this period that he made friends with Col. Cariappa, later the Chief of Army Staff of Independent India, and Captain Osmani, later the Chief of the Bangladesh Army. He was posted as SDPO, Serampore, when the war ended, and moved on to be Superintendent, Wireless, where he supervised t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kolkata Police Force
The Kolkata Police Force (KPF) is one of the two presidency police forces of the Indian state of West Bengal. Kolkata Police has the task of policing the metropolitan area (apart from Bidhannagar and New Town, which are served by the Bidhannagar City Police, the area in Howrah City is managed by Howrah City Police and the area in Hooghly City is managed by Chandannagar Police Commisionerate) of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), India, as defined under the Calcutta Police Act, 1866 and the Calcutta Suburban Police Act, 1866. The primary functions of the forces are maintaining law and order in the city, traffic management, prevention and detection of crime and co-ordinating various citizen-centric services for the people of Kolkata. , Kolkata Police has eight divisions covering 79 police stations. It has a strength of approximately 35,000 and a territorial jurisdiction of . There are eight battalions of armed forces as well as specialised branches. The force also uses various modern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Charles Tegart
Sir Charles Augustus Tegart (5 October 1881 – 6 April 1946) was an Irish-born police officer who served in British India and Palestine. Tegart was the mastermind behind the creation of the Arab Investigation Centres in Palestine during the Great Arab revolt. During his career, Tegart achieved a reputation of being "uncompromising with detainees". Early life Born in Derry on 5 October 1881, Tegart was the son of a Church of Ireland clergyman, Rev. Joseph Poulter Tegart of Dunboyne, County Meath and his wife Georgina Johnston. He was educated at Portora Royal School, Enniskillen and briefly at Trinity College, Dublin. Career in India He joined the Calcutta Police in 1901, becoming head of its Detective Department. He served almost continuously in Calcutta for a period of thirty years until he was appointed a member of the Secretary of State's Indian Council in December 1931. He was the first officer of the Indian Imperial Police (IMP) in the Council and on his report ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
