Punjab Police (Pakistan)

Punjab Police پنجاب پولیس
Abbreviation	P.P.
Logo of the Punjab Police
Motto	Serve And Protect / خدمت اور حفاظت
Agency overview
Formed	1861
Employees	180,000
Legal personality	Governmental: Government agency
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction*	Province of Punjab, Pakistan
Map of Punjab Police's jurisdiction.
Size	205,344 sq. km.
Population	81.8 Million
Legal jurisdiction	Punjab
General nature	Law enforcement Civilian police
Operational structure
Headquarters	Lahore, Punjab
Agency executive	Mushtaq Sukhera, Inspector General of Police (IGP) / Provincial Police Officer
Website
http://www.punjabpolice.gov.pk/
Footnotes
* Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction.

The Punjab Police (Punjabi, Urdu: پنجاب پولیس) is responsible for reducing and controlling all the crimes, happening in the province of Punjab, Pakistan. The mission of the Punjab Police is only to serve the public by ensuring rule of law in every corner of the province. Despite of having limited resources and extreme socio political pressure Punjab Police has always showed dedication towards its work, professionalism depicts in the grace of their black collar uniform. It performs the first line of defence duty while eradicating the menace of terrorism from the great country.

The system of policing in Mughal Era was organized on the basis of land tenure. Zamindars were responsible for apprehending disturbers of the public peace and performing other policing duties. At the level of the village these functions were performed by the village headmen. In large towns administration of the police was entrusted to, functionaries called kotwals who discharged the combined duties of law enforcement, municipal administration and revenue collection. Patrol officers in the shape of village watchmen or patels in villages and peons, horse patrolmen and such other like men in the towns were present. Violent organized crime was usually dealt with by the military.

The modern system of policing was introduced during British Rule, The British administration relieved the zamindars of their responsibility for police service and introduced magistrates with daroghas and other subordinate officers for Police purposes. The Punjab Police was also organized on the pattern of two main branches, the Military Preventive Police and the Civil Detective Police. As this arrangement was not found to be satisfactory so in 1860 the Government of India urged the Government of Punjab to look into the system of policing then prevalent in the Province. However, as the issue was of general importance the central Government appointed a commission to enquire into whole question of policing in British India. The Calcutta Police Commission of 1860 recommended the abolition of the Military Arm of the Police, the appointment of an Inspector General of Police in the Province and the placement of Police in a district under the District Superintendent. The Commission recommended that only the District Magistrate should exercise any Police functions. Based on the recommendations of the Commission the Government of India submitted a bill which was passed into law as Act V of 1861. The Police Act of 1861 was adopted. The organizational design that followed the Act survives to this day.