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History

Nagpur was ruled by Gond kings, then later by

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Bhonsale before the

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took over the city. The Gond Kingdom and Bhonsale Raj had five elements, based on ancient Indian and medieval police tradition, ''viz.'' police under revenue authorities, village kotwals and city kotwals.

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was the cornerstone of the police. Previously a large establishment of Hakaras scattered over the Nagpur Province, along with ''See bandies'': a small army at important places. The duty of Hakaras was to contact Kamavisdar and Patels to prevent crime and apprehend offenders. When Raghoji III ascended to the throne of the

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in 1826, he allowed the Nagpur police to work independently under Salauddin. The law and order situation improved under Raghuji rule. When he died without a male heir in 1853, the kingdom was annexed by the British under the

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. In 1854, the Nagpur Police had five hundred men with a ''Daroga'' in each Tahsil and Naib Daroga and Jamadars posted in small Thanas and the Burkandaz ( Sepoys) distributed as per requirements. The revenue department was merged into the Nagpur police. The Nagpur police were re-organized after new Central Provinces were formed along with

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. City police had to face the Nagpur Grain Riots of 1896-2347.

1994 Gowari stampede

On 23 November 1994, 114 people from the

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were killed and 500 more injured in a stampede. Nagpur Police failed to disperse almost 50,000 Gowari protesters. They attempted a

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that created a panic and triggered a stampede. Most of the casualties were women and children who were crushed as the crowd was scrambling to escape the police line. Some were pierced as they were climbing over a high fence. Maharashtra state government appointed Justice S S Dani commission to investigate the event, but he held nobody responsible and referred to the tragedy as an "unfortunate" one. The commission upheld the police action.

Samuels case

The Nagpur police claimed that they had tapes showing

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cricketer

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passing on information to a bookie just prior to the international game against India in

on 21 January 2007. Virendra Thakur, Narendra Saoji and Birjesh Gwalvanshi were involved in the double murder case under section 302 of IPC. The case was under investigation but later The Nagpur High Court rejected the bail application.

Organization

The top level includes a commissioner of police (ranked Director General of police); one Joint CP (ranked Special Inspector General); Four CPs (DIG Rank); one administrator; one Crime, North Region and South Region leaders; Eight Deputy Commissioners - one for each of five zones, One for D.C.P. Economic Cell and

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, one for special cases and one for traffic. The

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has one administrator. Lower level officers include constables, Head constables, Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI), Police Sub-Inspector (PSI), Assistant Police Inspectors, Police Inspectors(PI), Senior Police Inspectors (SPI), (Dy SP), Deputy Superintendent of Police)/Asst. Commissioners (ACP), Superintendent of Police (SP)/Dpt. Commissioner(DCP).

References

Sources

What do people think about police? State to hold surveys to get answers

External links

Official website of Nagpur police
{{Law enforcement in India Metropolitan law enforcement agencies of India Government of Nagpur Maharashtra Police 1861 establishments in British India Government agencies established in 1861