Police Commissioner Of Bangalore
The Commissioner of Police, Bangalore City is the head of the Bangalore City Police. Founded in July 1963, the post has been held by 32 officers of the Indian Police Service (IPS), the first of whom was C. Chandy. The average length of tenure is 1 year, 8 months; Bangalore's longest-serving Commissioner of Police (India), Police Commissioner is P. G. Halarnkar, who held office for 3 years, 9 months in the mid-1980s. The incumbent is Seemanth Kumar Singh, who is serving from 6 June 2025 onwards. The Commissioner of Police, Bangalore City has the rank of Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) in the Karnataka state police hierarchy. Past Commissioners See also * Police Commissioner of Delhi * Police Commissioner of Kolkata * Police Commissioner of Mumbai * Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad City References {{reflist Bengaluru Indian police chiefs Karnataka Police ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Additional Director General Of Police
The Additional Director General of Police (Addl. DGP) is a senior rank in the Indian Police Service (IPS). It is the second-highest rank in the state police forces of India, below the Director General of Police (DGP) and above the Inspector General of Police An inspector-general of police is a senior police officer in the police force or police service of several nations. The rank usually refers to the head of a large regional command within a police service, and in many countries refers to the most ... (IGP). ADGPs are responsible for overseeing various aspects of police administration, including law and order, investigations, intelligence, training, and modernization. Appointments The appointment of Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) in India is governed by state laws and regulations. The process typically involves promotion from lower ranks within the Indian Police Service (IPS) or, in some cases, deputation from other services. Eligibility and Selection ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Government Of Karnataka
The Government of Karnataka, abbreviated as GoK or GoKA, formerly known as Government of Mysore (1956–1974), is a democratically elected state body with the governor as the ceremonial head to govern the Southwest Indian state of Karnataka. The governor who is appointed for five years appoints the chief minister and on the advice of the chief minister appoints their council of ministers. Even though the governor remains the ceremonial head of the state, the day-to-day running of the government is taken care of by the chief minister and their council of ministers in whom a great amount of legislative powers are vested. Head Leaders Council of Ministers District In-charge Ministers By Departments Administrative divisions Karnataka State has been divided into 4 revenue divisions, 31 districts, 49 subdivisions, 237 taluks, 747 hoblies/ revenue circles and 6,022 villages for land revenue administrative purposes. The state has 281 towns and 7 municipal corporati ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Karnataka State Police
The Karnataka State Police is the law enforcement agency for the Indian state of Karnataka. It was established in 1965 and is headquartered in Bengaluru, the capital city of Karnataka. The KSP is a state police force that works under the purview of the Department of Home Affairs, Government of Karnataka. The department is headed by the Director General and Inspector General of Police. Organization The Director General and Inspector General of Police (DG & IGP) is the head of the State police department, and under him are the Director General of Police and Additional Director General of Police. Each Additional Director General of Police is in charge of a particular function: law and order, crime and technical services, administration, intelligence, the Karnataka State Reserve Police, recruitment and training. The District Police administration is headed by a Superintendent of Police. A group of districts comprise a Police Range, led by an Inspector General of Police (IGP). Big ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Home Department
The Home Office (HO), also known (especially in official papers and when referred to in Parliament) as the Home Department, is the United Kingdom's interior ministry. It is responsible for public safety and policing, border security, immigration, passports, and civil registration. Agencies under its purview include police in England and Wales, Border Force, the Visas and Immigration authority, and the Security Service (MI5). It also manage policy on drugs, counterterrorism, and immigration. It was formerly responsible for His Majesty's Prison Service and the National Probation Service, but these have been transferred to the Ministry of Justice. The Cabinet minister responsible for the department is the home secretary, a post considered one of the Great Offices of State; it has been held by Yvette Cooper since July 2024. The Home Office is managed from day to day by a civil servant, the permanent under-secretary of state of the Home Office. The expenditure, administrati ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bangalore City Police
The Bengaluru City Police (BCP), formerly Bangalore City Police, is the law-enforcement agency of the South Indian city of Bengaluru. The BCP works under the Karnataka State Police jurisdiction and is headed by the Commissioner of Police, Bangalore City, currently Seemanth Kumar Singh, IPS is the Police Commissioner. The Bengaluru City Police consists of foot patrols, mobile patrols, traffic patrols and striking armed force mobile units. The Bengaluru City Police jurisdiction is divided into seven zones — East, West, North, South, Central, South-East and North-East. Each zone is further divided into three sub-divisions, each headed by an Assistant Commissioner of Police. Each sub-division consists of several police stations controlled by a Police inspector. The call signs *. Commissioner of Police - Compol *. Additional Commissioner of Police, West - Jupiter *. Additional Commissioner of Police, East - Scorpio *. Deputy Commissioner o ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Indian Police Service
The Indian Police Service (IPS) is a civil service under the All India Services. It replaced the Indian Imperial Police in 1948, a year after India became Partition of India, independent from the British Empire. Along with the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and the Indian Forest Service (IFS), the IPS is part of the All India Services – its officers are employed by both the Government of India, Union Government and by individual States and union territories of India, states. The service provides leadership to various state and central police forces, including the Central Armed Police Forces (Border Security Force, BSF, Sashastra Seema Bal, SSB, Central Reserve Police Force, CRPF, Central Industrial Security Force, CISF, and Indo-Tibetan Border Police, ITBP), the National Security Guard (NSG), National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Intelligence Bureau (India), Intelligence Bureau (IB), Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), Special Protection Group (SPG), National Invest ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Commissioner Of Police (India)
Commissioners of Police (also known as Police Commissioners) in India are Indian Police Service, IPS officers who head the police force in a police commissionerate. A police commissionerate can combine several adjoining List of districts in India, districts under it. A Police Commissioner may or may not hold certain powers of the executive magistrate, contrary to the Superintendent of police (India), Superintendent of Police (SP) or Senior SP (SSP) in charge of a police district who depends on the district magistrate to issue orders. Police commissioner#India, Commissioner of Police (CP) is a post that can be held by an IPS officer of the rank SP and above, depending upon the sanction provided by the respective state government (or in case of Delhi, by the Government of India). History and description Traditionally at the district level, the Superintendent of Police (SP) or Senior SP (SSP) maintains law and order by working with the District Magistrate (DM). Under the Commissione ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Shankar Bidari
Shankar Mahadev Bidari is an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, who was the Director General and Inspector General of Police (DGP) of the state of Karnataka. An Indian Police Service officer of the 1978 cohort, he was the Police Commissioner of Bangalore. Bidari comes from Banahatti City in Bagalkot District, Karnataka. He was succeeded as DG & IGP by Abdul Rahman Infant in March 2012. The Karnataka High Court had held the Special Task Force under his command responsible for rape and torture of women. The Karnataka High Court dubbed him worse than Saddam Hussein or Gaddafi for his role as the leader of the Task Force that was responsible for fake encounters, gang-rapes and harassment of tribals. Family background Shankar Bidari's family has five civil servants from a single family. Bidari comes from a Lingayat family. Bidari's daughter Vijayalakshmi Bidari, IAS undertook the Civil Services Examination in 2001. Her husband Mallikarjuna Prasanna, an IPS officer is a DCP in Mum ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bhaskar Rao
Bhaskar Rao is an Indian politician and former police officer who served as the Commissioner of Bengaluru City Police, from 2 August 2019 to 1 August 2020. Rao comes from Bengaluru and was previously Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) in the Karnataka State Reserve Police as well as ADGP, Internal security Division. Mr. Rao served as the ADGP, Railways before retiring on 1 April 2022. Post his tenure in the Police department, he joined Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). He joined Bharathiya Janatha party (BJP) after 11 months of political experience in AAP. Career During the COVID-19 pandemic in India, while serving as the Additional Director General of Police for Railways, he was appointed as the special nodal officer in charge to supervise and enforce COVID-19 guidelines for the northern range comprising Vijayapura, Bagalkot and Belagavi districts. He brought out a set of guidelines to handle the Pandemic by appealing to All merchants associations, the apex body of Belagavi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Police Commissioner Of Delhi
The Commissioner of Police, Delhi or Delhi Police Commissioner is the head of the Delhi Police, the law enforcement agency of the 15 police districts (as of January 2019) of India's capital, Delhi. Origins In 1966, the Government of India constituted the Delhi Police Commission headed by Justice G.D. Khosla to investigate problems faced by Delhi Police. It was on the basis of the Khosla Commission Report that the Delhi Police was reorganised. Four Police districts were constituted: North, Central, South and New Delhi. The Delhi Police Commission also recommended the introduction of Police Commissioner system, which was eventually adopted on 1 July 1978. Following the recommendations of "Khosla Commission", Commissioner of Police system in Delhi, the capital of India was started in 1978, with J.N. Chaturvedi being appointed as the first Police Commissioner of Delhi. It replaced the earlier Inspector General of Police system, where the Inspector General of police would report to ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Police Commissioner Of Kolkata
The Commissioner of the Kolkata Police (formerly Commissioner of the Calcutta Police) is the head of the Kolkata Police. The Kolkata police commissioner is appointed by the Minister of Home and Hill Affairs and reports independently to the Home Secretary for West Bengal. The commissioner sits at the Kolkata Police Headquarters, located at 18 Lalbazar Street in the Lalbazar neighbourhood of central Kolkata. The commissioner is an Indian Police Service officer of the rank of Additional Director-General (ADG) of Police. The commissioner heads the almost 35,000 strong metropolitan police force in a jurisdiction consisting of approximately 243km2 area and is the home to 14,617,992 people (2011 census figures). List of commissioners of police, Kolkata See also * Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate * Police Commissioner of Bangalore * Police Commissioner of Delhi * Police Commissioner of Mumbai The Police Commissioner of Mumbai is the chief of the Mumbai Police, and an o ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |