Pune Police
| Pune City Police | |
|---|---|
| Motto | Safety,Security, Satisfaction (SSS) |
| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 1764 |
| Employees | 9,000 (approx.) |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Size | 790 km² |
| Population | 7,358,008 |
| Legal jurisdiction | Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad |
| General nature |
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| Operational structure | |
| Headquarters | 2, Sadhu Vaswani Road, Camp |
| Elected officer responsible | Devendra Fadnavis (Home Minister) |
| Agency executive | Rashmi Shukla IPS, Commissioner |
| Parent agency | Maharashtra Police |
| Facilities | |
| Stations | 33 |
| Lockups | 2 |
| Website | |
| Official website | |
Pune City police department is the law enforcement agency with jurisdiction over 790 km2 comprising Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad cities in Maharashtra. The city police is division of Maharashtra Police, i.e state police department of Maharashtra. The current Pune commissionerate came into existence on 1 July 1965. Pune Police Department operates from 31 police stations. It also has the responsibility of traffic policing the city roads.
Though policing existed in ancient and medieval period also but it was known by different names. In 1764, the Peshwa Madhav Rao I created for the first time a regular office of Kotwal or the Head of Police, and appointed Balaji Narayan Ketkar, the first Kotwal (City Police Superintendent) of Pune. The city was divided into 4 police stations, known as Kotwal Chawdi, viz. Somwar Peth, Vetal Peth, Raviwar Peth and Budhwar Peth. The next Kotwal Ghasiram added Narayan Peth and Shaniwar Peth.
The British created the police department as we know it today. After conquering Sindh, as Governor of Bombay Presidency, Sir Charles Napier introduced a new force in 1843 exclusively for police work and having no links with the military. Later on, the British government passed the Police Act,1861, to re-organise the police department.
In 1882 the strength of the district or regular police was 1096. Of these under the District Superintendent two were subordinate officers, 177 were inferior subordinate officers, and twenty-five were mounted and 891 foot constables. The cost of maintaining this force was for the Superintendent a yearly salary of £920 (Rs. 9200); for the subordinate officers en yearly salaries of not less than £120 (Rs. 1200) and the inferior subordinate officers on yearly salaries of less than £120 (Rs. 1200), a yearly cost of £4686 (Rs. 46,860); and for the foot and mounted constables a cost of £10,171 (Rs. 1,01,710). Besides their pay a sum of £240 (Rs. 2400) was yearly allowed for the horse and travelling allowances of the Superintendent; £696 (Rs. 6960) for the pay and travelling allowances of his establishment.; £223 (Rs. 2230) for the horse and travelling allowances of subordinate officers; and £2025 (Rs. 20,250) a year for contingencies and petty charges. Thus the total yearly cost of maintaining the police department amounted to £18,962 (Rs. 1,89,620).
On an area of 5348 square miles, and a population of 900,621, these figures give one constable for every 4.88 square miles and 821 people and a cost of £3 10s. 11d. (Rs. 35 as. 71/3) to the square mile or 5½d. (32/3 as.) to each head of the population. Of the total strength of 1096, exclusive of the Superintendent, ninety-one, twelve officers and seventy-nine men, were in 1882 employed as guards over treasuries and lock-ups or as escorts to prisoners and treasure, 239 were posted in towns and municipalities, 153 in catonments, and 612,103 officers and 509 men, on other duties. Of the whole number, exclusive of the Superintendent, 509 were provided with fire-arms and 586 were provided with batons; and 219 of whomeighty-seven were officers and 132 men could read and write.
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