West Bengal Police

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West Bengal Police
West Bengal Police Logo (India).svg
Crest of West Bengal Police
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Flag of West Bengal Police
AbbreviationWBP
Motto"We Care We Dare"
Agency overview
Formed1861
Employees79,032 [1]
Annual budget₹10,595 crore (US$1.3 billion)
(FY2023–24 est.) [2]
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction West Bengal, IN
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Jurisdiction of the West Bengal Police
Size88,752 km2 (34,267 sq mi)
Population91,347,736 (2011)
Legal jurisdiction West Bengal
Governing body Department of Home and Hill Affairs
Constituting instrument
General nature
Operational structure
HeadquartersBhabani Bhawan, Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal
Gazetted Officers 200 IPS officers [3]
Minister responsible
Agency executive
Units CID West Bengal
Counter Insurgency Force
Facilities
Police Stations444 [4]
Vessels7 [5]
Jetties4 [5]
Dogs60 [6]
Website
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The West Bengal Police is one of the two police forces of the Indian state of West Bengal. The other being the Kolkata Police, which has a separate jurisdiction across Kolkata.

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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 Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, an IPS officer of the 1989 batch is the DGP of West Bengal Police since 19 March, 2024.

The West Bengal Police has jurisdiction concurrent with the twenty-two revenue districts of the State (excluding the metropolitan city of Kolkata) which comprises one of the two general police districts of West Bengal 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 Commissionerate) 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.

Organisational Structure

West Bengal Police Ten Police Ranges in three zones and a Railways zone. [7]

ZoneRangesDistricts
South Bengal ZonePresidency Range Baruipur Police District, Diamond Harbour Police District, Sundarbans Police District, and Howrah Rural Police
Murshidabad Range Krishnanagar Police District, Ranaghat Police District and Murshidabad
Barasat Range Barasat Police District, Basirhat Police District and Bongaon Police District
Western ZoneBurdwan Range Hooghly, Purba Bardhaman, Paschim Bardhaman and Birbhum
Midnapore Range Paschim Medinipur and Purba Medinipur
Bankura Range Bankura, Purulia and Jhargram
North Bengal ZoneJalpaiguri Range Jalpaiguri, Alipurduar and Cooch Behar
Darjeeling Range Darjeeling and Kalimpong
Malda Range Malda and Dakshin Dinajpur
Raiganj Range Uttar Dinajpur (Raiganj Police District and Islampur Police District)
Railway ZoneEastern Railway Malda railway division, Howrah railway division, Asansol railway division, Sealdah railway division
South Eastern Railway Kharagpur railway division, Adra railway division, Ranchi railway division
Northeast Frontier Railway Alipurduar railway division, Katihar railway division


Police commissionerates

A police commissionerate is a law enforcement body especially in the urban parts of the state. The commissionerate is headed by a Commissioner of Police. There are Six commissionerates under West Bengal Police for Urban Area policing. [8] The Howrah, Chandannagar, Asansol-Durgapur & the Siliguri Police commissionerates are headed by Commissioner of Police (CP) who are of the rank of Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) while the Bidhanagar and Barrackpore police commissionerates are headed by Commissioner of Police of the rank of Inspector General of Police (IGP). [9] On Nov 2017 Government of West Bengal has proposed to set up two more police commissionerates at Haldia in East Midnapore and Kharagpur in West Midnapore to ensure better policing. [10]

All these police commissionerates are under the direct control of Director general of police.

Marine Police

Since the 2008 Mumbai attacks the government of India took the decision to strengthen coastal security and several important decisions were taken, launched a multi-tier arrangement for protection and maritime security of the country scheme. In April 2011 the government of India sanctioned 14 coastal police stations, surveillance equipment, computer systems, furniture and jetties for the West Bengal's share of the 157.50 km coastline under the Coastal Security Scheme Phase-II. [11]

Organisational divisions

Zones

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 28 police districts (including four consisting of Government Railway Police districts), each headed by a Superintendent of Police. The three Zones are South Bengal Zone, Western Bengal Zone and North Bengal Zone, and an office of the IGP Railways.

Besides, there are some other IGP ranked officers in the following department: Coastal Security, Fire & Emergency Services, Training, Provisioning, Armed Police (AP), Enforcement Bureau (EB), Administration, Law & Orders, Telecommunications, CID, Traffic, WBPRB, SVSPA, CIF, STF, Vigilance Commission etc.

Ranges

Each Range comprises two or more districts or one district divided into multiple police districts. The Range is headed by a Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG). In West Bengal there are 10 ranges.

Besides, there are DIG ranked officers in the department of Traffic, Railways, States Crime Records Bureau (SCRB), CID West Bengal, Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB), AP Barrackpore, AP Eastern Frontier Rifles (EFR) Salua, AP North Bengal, AP Durgapur, AP Siliguri, Border, Enforcement Bureau (EB), Intelligence Bureau, Fire Services, Head Quarter (HQ), Police Training Center (PTS), Training, Personnel & Weapon, Provisioning, Telecommunication, WBNVF, Civil Defence etc.

Districts

Each Police District is either coterminous with the Revenue district or in the case of Government Railway Police districts, is located within a number of revenue districts. It is headed by a District Superintendent of Police (or simply called Superintendent of Police). Each district comprises two or more Sub-Divisions, several Circles and Police Stations. But in recent times, several districts are divided into police districts for better police administration. Each of those police districts are headed by an SP. [12]

Sub-Divisions

Each Sub-Division is headed by one Police officer of the rank Deputy Superintendent of Police (members of West Bengal Police Service, a directly recruited officer or one promoted from the ranks) or an Assistant Superintendent of Police (members of Indian Police Service). In West Bengal, the officer who heads a Sub-Division is known as SDPO i.e. Sub Divisional Police Officer.

Circles

A Circle comprises several Police Stations within a sub-division. An Inspector of Police who heads a police circle is the Circle Inspector of Police or CI.

Stations

A Police Station is the basic unit of policing, responsible for prevention and detection of crime, maintenance of public order, enforcing law in general as well as for performing protection duties and making security arrangements for the constitutional authorities, government functionaries, representatives of the public in different legislative bodies and local self governments, public figures etc.

A Police Station is headed by either a Sub-Inspector (lower subordinate rank), mostly in rural areas or an Inspector (an upper subordinate rank), mostly in urban areas. Police outposts are headed by a Sub-Inspector or Assistant Sub Inspector. After the year 2009 both ASI and SI have equal investigation power and both serve as duty officers.

Police ranks

The Director General functions from the West Bengal Police Directorate, located in the Writers' Buildings, the State Government's main Secretariat in Central Kolkata. He is assisted by a team of senior officers from the ranks of Additional Director General & Inspector General of Police to Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG — a post equivalent in rank and status to the Superintendent of Police). Officers of the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police are selected by the West Bengal Public Service Commission through the West Bengal Civil Service (Executive & other services) examinations. In addition to this, the directly recruited Sub Inspectors of Police may also become Deputy Superintendent of Police on promotion.

The West Bengal Police maintains the following ranks:

Designation in State PoliceDesignation in CommissionerateAbbreviation
Director General of Police Commissioner of Police DGP or CP
Additional Director General of Police Special Commissioner of PoliceAddl. DGP or Spl. CP
Inspector General of Police Additional Commissioner of PoliceIGP(IG) or Addl. CP
Deputy Inspector General of Police Joint Commissioner of Police DIG or Jt. CP
Senior Superintendent of Police Deputy Commissioner of Police (Selection Grade)SSP or DCP
Superintendent of Police Deputy Commissioner of PoliceSP or DCP
Additional Superintendent of Police Additional Deputy Commissioner of PoliceAddl.. SP or Addl. DCP
Deputy Superintendent of Police
/Sub Divisional Police Officer		 Assistant Commissioner of Police DSP/SDPO or ACP
Assistant Superintendent of Police Same in both state and city policeAsst. SP
Police Inspector Inspector
Sub-inspector SI
Assistant Sub-Inspector ASI
Senior Police Constable ( Unarmed division)
Junior Police Constable (Entry level armed division)

Organisation

The Police Manual of West Bengal Police was compiled and issued during British Raj and is known as the Police Regulations of Bengal(PRB), 1943 and with subsequent modifications and corrections, is the guiding source of internal Police Organization and Administration under its area of responsibility. The WBP is divided into a number of units:

Local Intelligence Unit

Post 2014 Burdwan blast, which unearthed Bangladesh-based militant group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, middle-east's terrorist group Islamic State and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence terror module, the need for strengthening the local intelligence gathering mechanism was first felt. Following the incident the state govt has set up a new intelligence agency to counter terrorism, bust terror modules and invigilate suspicious movements in West Bengal and also to foil militant infiltration into the state. [13]

Armed Police

The Armed Battalions consisting of State Armed Police (SAP), Eastern Frontier Rifles (EFR) and Indian Reserve Battalions (IRBn),

Civil Police

The Civil Police consists of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Counter Insurgency Force (CIF), Enforcement Branch (EB), Intelligence Branch (IB), Traffic Branch, Police Telecommunications, Training Wing, State Crime Records Bureau (SCRB) & Police Computer Centre (PCC).

STRACO

An elite force named Specially Trained Armed Company or STRACO has been created to combat insurgency & terrorism, posted in West Zone to fight Maoist guerrillas. WBP is raising another new "Counter Insurgency" force on the line of Gray Hound Special Force of Andhra Pradesh Police.

STF

West Bengal government created new directorate of the Special Task Force under West Bengal Police. [14] The Special Task Force (STF) of West Bengal, formed around three years ago, to combat modern urban organized crimes - terrorism, organized gangs, illegal arms, ammunition, drugs and fake currency across the state is all set to get a police station of its own and a designated court. [15]

SVSPA

The Swami Vivekananda State Police Academy (SVSPA) is the state level police training institution catering to the training needs of West Bengal Police and Kolkata Police. The Academy conducts basic training for DSP Probationers, Cadet Sub-Inspectors of both Armed & Un-Armed branches and Recruit Constables for West Bengal Police and also for Warders and Inspectors of Correctional Services, Sub-Inspectors and Sergeants of Kolkata Police. The Academy also conducts Pre-promotional training for Constables, Asst. SI's and SI's for their promotion to the next rank besides conducting various short in- service training courses on different professional issues. SVSPA is well equipped with in-house faculty members both for academic indoor training and outdoor training. Besides, a number of eminent faculty members from different disciplines take classes for the training programs. These include academicians, experts from Forensic Science Medicine, scientific officers/experts from Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) & Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL), lawyers, judicial officers and senior police officers. [16]

Recruitments

Entries are done at the following ranks:

  1. Recruitments to the posts of Constables / Lady constables, Sub Inspectors and Lady Sub inspectors are done by West Bengal Police Recruitment Board.
  2. West Bengal Police Service: Officers selected through West Bengal Civil Service (Group-B) etc., examination conducted by West Bengal Public Service Commission are appointed as Deputy Superintendent of Police.
  3. Indian Police Service : Officers selected through Civil Service Examinations conducted by Union Public Service Commission are appointed as Assistant Superintendent of Police during their probationary period. Upon confirmation to the service, they are appointed as Additional Superintendent of Police.

Eastern Frontier Rifles

The Eastern Frontier Rifles are an armed police force of the WBP, the purpose of which is to control major law & order problems, communal riots and terrorist attacks. Many contingents of EFR are deployed in various disturbed areas of the State. However, in recent years the effectiveness of this force has been weakened by overuse and prolonged deployment at Police Stations for day-to-day law & order duties. The headquarters of EFR is at Salua, near Kharagpur.

Counter Insurgency Force

The specialised force of the CIF was raised by the Government following the worsening situation in the Jungle Mahals. The force was charged with the specific task of curbing presence of the maoists within the state. The force was allowed its own recruiting process so as to select the best men from within the force. The force is headed by an Additional Director General of Police ranked officer.

Insignia of West Bengal Police (State Police)

Indian State Police Gazetted Officer Rank Insignia [17]
Insignia SP State Police.png Assistant Superintendent of Police.png Deupty Superintendent of Police.png
Rank Superintendent of Police Additional Superintendent of Police Deputy Superintendent of Police
AbbreviationSPAddl.SPDSP/Dy.SP
  • Note: Gazetted officers belonging to Indian State Police Service(s) lie between ranks DSP and SP.
  • Officers usually undergo training at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy are awarded IPS to attain Assistant SP rank (1 year of service) but this varies from state to state.

Non-gazetted officers

Indian Police non-gazetted officers rank insignia [18] [19]
Insignia Police Inspector insignia.png Assistant Police Inspector.png Police Sub-Inspector.png Assistant Sub-Inspector.png Head Constable.png Police Head Constable.png Police Naik.png Senior Police Constable.png No insignia
Rank Inspector Assistant inspector [lower-alpha 1] Sub-inspector Assistant sub-inspector Head constable [lower-alpha 2] Police Naik [lower-alpha 3] Police constable
AbbreviationINSP/PIAPISIASIHCSCPC
  • Note: Colour pattern and size of chevrons may vary according to the different rules of several distinct Indian State Police services.

Equipment

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ This rank exists only in the Maharashtra Police.
  2. ↑ Shoulder insignia rank only used in the Maharashtra Police.
  3. ↑ This rank is also known as senior constable, constable grade-I, and exists only in some state police forces.

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