West Bengal Police
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West Bengal Police পশ্চিমবঙ্গ পুলিশ |
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| Abbreviation | WBP |
| Agency overview | |
| Employees |
Superintendents of Police: Additional superintendents of police: Deputy Superintendents of Police: Inspectors of Police: Sub-Inspectors of Police: Assistant sub-inspectors of police etc |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction* | State of West Bengal, India |
| Governing body | Government of West Bengal |
| General nature | |
| Operational structure | |
| Headquarters | Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| Agency executive | Shri Surajit Kar Purkayastha, Director General of Police and Inspector General of Police |
| Child agency |
Barrackpore Police Commissionerate Asansol–Durgapur Police Commissionerate Howrah Police Commissionerate Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate Siliguri Police Commissionerate |
| Website | |
| policewb.gov.in | |
| Footnotes | |
| * Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. | |
The West Bengal Police is one of the two police forces of the Indian state of West Bengal. (The other is the Kolkata Police, which has a separate jurisdiction.)
The West Bengal Police was reorganized under provisions of the Police Act 1861 during the British Raj. It is headed by an officer designated as the Director General of Police who reports to the State Government through the Home (Police) Department. Shri Surajit Kar Purkayastha, an IPS officer of 1985 batch is the DG & IGP of West Bengal Police since May 31, 2016.
The West Bengal Police has jurisdiction concurrent with the eighteen revenue districts of the State (excluding the metropolitan city of Kolkata) which comprises one of the two general police districts of West Bengal as under the Police Act 1861. The other general police district consists of the major portions of the metropolitan area of Kolkata, and has a separate police force (Kolkata Police) constituted and administered under the Calcutta Police Act 1866 & Calcutta (Suburban Police) Act 1866. This arrangement, unique in India, was conceived during colonial times when Calcutta was the capital of British India. The city police have been kept independent of the state police force.
The police administration in the state is divided into three police zones and a Government Railway Police (GRP) Zone, each headed by an Inspector General of Police. Each Zone consists of one or more Ranges headed by an officer designated as the Deputy Inspector General of Police (or Special Inspector General of Police). In all, there are 22 police districts (including four consisting of Government Railway Police districts), each headed by a Superintendent of Police. The three Zones are South Bengal, Western Bengal and North Bengal, and an office of the IGP railways.training college.
West Bengal Police has seven Police Ranges and a Railways Range. South Bengal Zone has two Ranges: Presidency Range, consisting of the districts of South 24 Parganas, North 24 Parganas and Howrah and Murshidabad Range, consisting of the districts of Nadia and Murshidabad. Western Zone also has two Ranges: Burdwan Range, consisting of Hooghly, Burdwan and Birbhum districts and Midnapore Range, consisting of Paschim Midnapur, Purba Midnapur, Bankura and Purulia Districts. North Bengal Zone has three Ranges: Jalpaiguri Range, consisting of the districts of Jalpaiguri, Alipurduar and Cooch Behar; Darjeeling Range, consisting of Darjeeling and Uttar Dinajpur and Malda Range, consisting of the districts of Malda and Dakshin Dinajpur. Headquarters of Burdwan Police Range is Chuchura, Hooghly.
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