Patna Police

Patna Police
पटना पुलिस

Logo of the Patna Police
Agency overview
Employees 10,760[1] (Uniformed)
Legal personality Governmental: Government agency
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction* District of Patna in the state of Bihar, IN
Areas of Patna Police's jurisdiction in Bihar
Size 3,202 square kilometres (1,236 sq mi)
Population 5,838,465 (2011)
Legal jurisdiction Patna district
Governing body Home Department, Government of Bihar
General nature
Operational structure
Overviewed by General Administration Deptt., Govt. of Bihar
Headquarters Gandhi Maidan Marg, Patna- 800004
Elected officer responsible Nitish Kumar, Home minister
Agency executive Manu Maharaj, IPS,, Senior superintendent of police
Parent agency Bihar Police
Units
Facilities
stations 75[2]
Website
http://patnapolice.bih.nic.in
Footnotes
* Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction.

Patna Police (Hindi: पटना पुलिस) is the police service responsible for law enforcement within Patna district, including the capital city of Patna in an Indian state of Bihar.[3][4] Patna Police is the largest police service in the state. Its headquarters are at Gandhi Maidan Marg in Patna.

History

Patna is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world, and policing in Patna is more than 3000 years old. In fact, there are documented historical references to policing practices adopted by the Magadha Empire.

Policing in the Modern era in Bihar began in the year 1862 with the introduction of the Indian Police Act of 1861. Following the creation of the province of Bihar in 1912, the basic structure of police as it exists today in the whole of India was laid.

Today

As of December 2015, Patna Police is commanded by Senior Superintendent of Police, Manu Maharaj,[5] who is an IPS officer.[6]

Patna police is broadly divided into four regions namely Central, East, West and Rural, each headed by a Superintendent of Police. For administrative purposes, each region is subdivided into Neighbourhood Policing Teams, each led by an Inspector. The Neighbourhood Policing Team's are responsible for the bulk of the community work undertaken in an area, and look to deal with long term local issues including Anti-Social Behaviour.

The Traffic Police is a semi-autonomous body under the Patna Police.

Services provided by the Patna Police include:

Further policing duties performed are traffic control, intelligence analysis and anti-terrorism investigation. The overall mission of the Patna Police is to protect life and property and to detect and prevent crime.

Rank structure

The rank structure of Patna Police officers is as follows (in descending order of seniority):

Recently, a proposal for creating police commissioner system for the state capital has been sent to the state government by Bihar Police, the parent agency.[10]

Helpline numbers

The following are the helpline numbers of Patna Police.

Office Number Alt. number
Emergency 100
Fire 101
Ambulance 108
Patna Women Police 9470001390 9471006592
Police Control Room 0612-2201975 2201977 / 2201978 / 2219131

Equipment

All the equipment of the Patna Police are manufactured indigenously by the Indian Ordnance Factories controlled by the Ordnance Factories Board, Ministry of Defence, Government of India.

Vehicles

References

  1. ↑ "Where is Priya? 10k-strong Patna Police has no answer". The Times of India. 18 March 2015. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
  2. ↑ Welcome To The Patna Police of Bihar State
  3. ↑ New police headquarters building soon The Times of India. Retrieved Mar 11, 2012
  4. ↑ Stage set for anti-Red operations The Times of India, Patna. Retrieved Jun 3, 2013
  5. ↑ "Vikas Vaibhav, Pratima Verma Out; Manu Maharaj, Sanjay Agrawal in". PatnaDaily. 3 December 2015. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
  6. ↑ "Top cop who never used his revolver". The Telegraph. 15 December 2013. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
  7. ↑ "Lande transferred again, this time to Rohtas". bihartimes.in. 3 February 2015. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
  8. ↑ Sayantanee Choudhury,TNN (14 February 2015). "Three Patna police inspectors shifted for laxity in work". The Times of India. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
  9. ↑ "CONTACT DETAILS OF POLICE OFFICERS RANGEWISE" (PDF). Home department, Govt. of Bihar. 11 February 2015. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
  10. ↑ "Proposal for commissioner system in city, says DGP". The Times of India. 12 February 2015. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
  11. ↑ "OFB Revolver 0.32".
  12. ↑ "Pistol Auto 9mm 1A".
  13. ↑ "OFB Submachine Carbine".
  14. ↑ "OFB Rifle 1A1".
  15. ↑ "OFB Assault Rifle 7.62mm".
  16. ↑ "OFB INSAS".
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