''Patna Police'' (

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: पटना पुलिस) is the police service responsible for law enforcement within

Patna district Patna district is one of the thirty-eight districts of Bihar state in eastern India. Patna, the capital of Bihar, is the district headquarters. The Patna district is a part of Patna division. The Patna district is divided into 6 Sub-divisions ( ...

, including the capital city of

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in an Indian state of

Bihar Bihar (; ) is a state in eastern India. It is the 2nd largest state by population in 2019, 12th largest by area of , and 14th largest by GDP in 2021. Bihar borders Uttar Pradesh to its west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West ...

. Patna Police is the largest police service in the state. Its headquarters are at

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. The present SSP of Patna Police is manavjit singh Dhillon since January 1, 2020.

History

Patna is one of the

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, and policing in

is more than 3000 years old.

Today

Patna police is broadly divided into four regions namely Central, East, West and Rural, each headed by a

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. For administrative purposes, each region is subdivided into Neighbourhood Policing Teams, each led by an Inspector. The Neighbourhood Policing Team's are responsible for the bulk of the community work undertaken in an area, and look to deal with long term local issues including Anti-Social Behaviour. The Traffic Police is a semi-autonomous body under the Patna Police. Services provided by the Patna Police include: * Preventing, detecting and investigating crime; * Monitoring and promoting road safety; * Maintaining social order; * Performing and coordinating search and rescue operations; and * Emergency management * Stopping illegal constructions and frauds * They have also started special investigation against liquors and old currency notes of 500 and 1000 INR after the ban. Further policing duties performed are traffic control, intelligence analysis and anti-terrorism investigation. The overall mission of the Patna Police is to protect life and property and to detect and prevent crime.

Rank structure

The rank structure of Patna Police officers is as follows (in descending order of seniority): Zonal level * Inspector General of Police - Patna Zone (Sunil Kumar) Range level *Deputy Inspector General of Police - Patna Range (Rajesh Kumar) District level *Senior Superintendent of Police (Upendra Kumar Sharma) *(five) Superintendent of Police (SP) **City Central (Vinay Tiwari) **City East ( Jitender Kumar) **City West (Abhinav Kumar) **Rural (Kantesh Kuar Mishra) **Traffic (D Amrakesh) *Additional Superintendent of Police *Assistant Superintendent of Police Circle level *(Fifteen) Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Station level *Inspector of Police/ Station House Officers *Sub-Inspector of Police *Assistant Sub-Inspector of Police Constabulary *Head Constable *Senior Constable *Constable Recently, a proposal for creating police commissioner system for the state capital has been sent to the state government by Bihar Police, the parent agency.

Equipment

All the equipment of the Patna Police are manufactured indigenously by the

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controlled by the Ordnance Factories Board, Ministry of Defence, Government of India. * Wooden Baton * Revolver 0.32 * Pistol Auto 9mm 1A * 9mm SAF Carbine 1A1 * 7.62 mm Ishapore 2A1 Rifle * RFI L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle * AK 47/

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* INSAS Rifle

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* Hero MotoCorp Glamour *

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References

External links

Official website

Official website of Traffic police

Important Numbers for Patna District Police

{{Patna Law enforcement agencies of India Metropolitan law enforcement agencies of India Government of Patna 1862 establishments in India Bihar Police