Gujarat Police
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Gujarat Police department ગુજરાત પોલીસ |
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| Agency overview | |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction* | State of Gujarat, IN |
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| Map of Gujarat Police Department's jurisdiction | |
| Legal jurisdiction | State of Gujarat |
| Governing body | Government of Gujarat |
| General nature | |
| Operational structure | |
| Agency executive | P.P. Pandey IPS, Director General of Police, Gujarat State |
| Website | |
| www.police.gujarat.gov.in | |
| Footnotes | |
| * Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. | |
The Gujarat Police is the law enforcement agency for the state of Gujarat in India. The Gujarat Police has its headquarters in Gandhinagar, the state capital.
The Gujarat Police came into existence after Gujarat's separation from the Greater Mumbai state on 1 May 1960.
The Gujarat Police is headed by Director General of Police (DGP). There are four Commissioners' offices are now: Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Rajkot and Surat. There are seven ranges in the Gujarat Police: Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Vadodara, Rajkot, Junagadh, Surat and Boarder Range. For police administration the state is further divided into 26 police districts and Western Railway Police.
Gujarat Police has some branches for special tasks: Crime, anti-terrorist squad (ATS) and the Intelligence wing. The Gujarat Police was the first state police to crack the serial bomb blast mystery during 2007-08 in many Indian cities including 2008 Ahmedabad bombings
In the years following the 2002 Godhra Riots, the Gujarat police is widely perceived as having become "extraordinarily politicized" Up to 2013, there were an unprecedented total of 32 police officers, including six IPS officers who were in jail for the cold-blooded killing of a dozen people in staged "encounters".
On April 24, 2007, DIG Rajnish Rai of Gujarat Police, who was investigating the Sohrabuddin Sheikh murder case, arrested three senior police officers: D G Vanzara, S Pandian Rajkumar and Dinesh MN (Rajasthan cadre). Vanzara was charged as the key executor of the extrajudicial killings. As a DIG, he had been promoted as head of the Anti-Terrorism Squad, normally an IG post.
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