The Greater Chennai Police, a division of the

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, is the law enforcement agency for the city of

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and the surrounding area. The city police force is headed by a Commissioner of Police and the administrative control vests with the

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Home Department. There are four sub-divisions of the Greater Chennai Police, and 104 police stations. The city's traffic is managed by the Greater Chennai Traffic Police. Chennai is the first city in India to introduce e-Beat system used to measure the daily routine and performance of the police personnel.

History

In 1659 when Chennai (then called as Madraspatanam) was just a group of fishing villages. Pedda Naik formed a group of

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s to guard the town. By 1780 the post of Superintendent of Police was created to manage the markets. After the

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, the

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in India formed the modern Madras Police as part of its reforms. The Chennai City Traffic Police is a branch of the Greater Chennai Police, with the mission of regulating traffic in the city of

. It was established in 1929 when the Police department was split into 3, namely, Law & Order, Crime and Traffic. As of 2011, the government merged Chennai Suburban Police with Chennai city police to form The Greater Chennai Police Commissionerate.

Achievements

Additional Yellow Brigades & Blue Brigades motorcycles and patrol vehicles have been introduced in Greater Chennai. Each Yellow Brigade covers a distance of 2 km² approximately during daytime from 6 am to 9 pm. The Blue Brigade covers the same distance of 2 km² during nighttime from 11 pm to 6.30 am. The patrol vehicles covers an approximate distance of 3.2 km² each day. For patrol duty, 40 Jeeps have been provided equipped with police sirens, revolving lights, public address system, fire extinguisher, top search light, police display light and wireless communication system. The response time to control room calls has been brought down to 3–4 minutes. The

Tamil Nadu Police Tamil Nadu Police is the primary law enforcement agency of the state of Tamil Nadu, India. It is over 150 years old and is the fifth largest state police force in India.

claims that the crime rate in the Greater

City has come down considerably after these initiatives. The police force include 100

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patrol cars that was donated by the

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, whose factory is located in

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, on the outskirts of the city. The cars are fitted with

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s, wireless communication devices and loudspeakers, making this the only police force in the country to use sedan patrol cars. Patrol cars have been provided to Greater Chennai Police.

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donated Accent cars to Chennai Police, of which 75 were given to Law & Order, 21 to traffic department. The remaining 4 cars were incorporated into the Chief Minister's convoy.

Ranks of law enforcement in Chennai Police

The ranks, posts and designations of all police officers vary from state to state as law and order is a state matter. But, generally the following pattern is observed: ;Gazetted Officers . ;Non-gazetted officers

List of police stations

Following are the new list of delimitation police stations within the jurisdiction of Chennai Metropolitan Police.

Footnotes

References

External links

Official website
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