Commissioner of the Kolkata Police

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Commissioner of Kolkata Police Force
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Insignia of Commissioner of Police
Incumbent
Manoj Kumar Verma, IPS
since 17 September 2024
Kolkata Police Force
Style The Learned Commissioner of Police
AbbreviationLd. CP
Reports to
Residence 2, Loudon Street, Kolkata
Seat Lalbazar, Kolkata
Appointer Government of West Bengal
Constituting instrumentThe Calcutta Police Act, 1866
Formation1856;169 years ago (1856)
First holderS. Wauchope
SalaryHAG scale (Level 15)
Website kolkatapolice.gov.in

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.

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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

Sl.NoNameTerms of officeBadge name
1S. Wauchope1856–1863
2V. H. Shalch1863–1866
3 Sir Stuart Hogg 1866–1876
4C. T. Metcalfe1876–1881
5Henry Harrison1881–1889
6Sir John Lambert1889–1897
7A. H. James1897–1901
8E. M. Showera1901–1902
9R. D. O. Bignell1902–1905
10Sir Frederick Loch Halliday1905–1916
11Sir Reginald Clarke1916–1923
12 Sir Charles Tegart 1923–1931
13L. H. Colson1931–1939
14Sir C. E. S. Fairweather1939–1943
15R. E. A. Ray1943–1946
16D. R. Hardwick1946–1947
17Surendra Nath Chatterjee1947–1951S. N. CHATTERJEE [a]
18H. S. Ghosh Chaudhuri1951–1960
19U. Mukherjee1960–1962
20S. M. Ghosh1962–1964
21P. K. Sen1964–1967
22 Ranjit Kumar Gupta 1970–1971
23R. N. Chatterjee1971–1972
24S. C. Chaudhuri1972–1976
25S. Basu1976–1978
26S. K. Sinha1978–1980
27N. Som1980–1984
28B. K. Basu1984–1988
29B. K. Saha1988–1992
30T. K. Talukdar1992–1996
31Dinesh Chandra Vajpai1996–2001
32S. K. Chakroborty2001–2004
33 Prasun Mukherjee 17 Oct 2004 – 2007PRASUN MUKHERJEE
34Gautam Mohan Chakraborty17 Oct 2007 – 16 Mar 2011GAUTAM
35Ranjit Kumar Pachnanda17 Mar 2011 – 14 Feb 2013R. K. PACHNANDA
36 Surajit Kar Purkayastha 14 Feb 2013 – 13 Feb 2016SURAJIT
37 Rajeev Kumar 14 Feb 2016 – 12 April 2016RAJEEV
38 Soumen Mitra 13 April 2016 – 21 May 2016SOUMEN MITRA [1]
(37) Rajeev Kumar 21 May 2016 – 19 February 2019RAJEEV [2]
39 Anuj Sharma 19 February 2019 – 5 April 2019ANUJ [3]
40 Dr. Rajesh Kumar 6 April 2019 – 26 May 2019DR. RAJESH
(39) Anuj Sharma 26 May 2019 – 6 Feb 2021ANUJ
(38) Soumen Mitra 6 Feb 2021 – 31 Dec 2021SOUMEN MITRA [4]
41Vineet Kumar Goyal1 Jan 2022 – 17 Sep 2024VINEET KUMAR GOYAL
42Manoj Kumar Verma17 Sep 2024 – IncumbentM. K. VERMA

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Notes

  1. ↑ He was the first Indian origin Police Commissioner

References

  1. ↑ "Rajeev Kumar removed, Soumen Mitra new CP of Kolkata", Times of India, 12 April 2016
  2. ↑ Munish Chandra Pandey (3 February 2019). "Why Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar is under CBI's scanner?". India Today.
  3. ↑ Debashish Konar (19 February 2019). "Anuj Sharma appointed new Kolkata police chief". Times of India.
  4. ↑ "Major IPS reshuffle: West Bengal govt appoints Soumen Mitra as new chief of Kolkata Police". 6 February 2021.
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