Patna Police

Patna Police
पटना पुलिस
Agency overview
Employees 10,760 (Uniformed)
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction Patna, Bihar, India
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 (Bihar)
General nature
Operational structure
Overviewed by General Administration Deptt., Govt. of Bihar
Headquarters Gandhi Maidan Marg, Patna- 800004
Agency executive
Parent agency Bihar Police
Units
List
  • Aviation
  • Emergency Service
  • Organized Crime Control Bureau
  • Special Victims
  • Major Case Squad
  • Taxi Squad
  • Movie and Television
  • School Safety
  • Real Time Crime
  • Auxiliary Police
  • Crime Scene
  • Evidence Collection
  • Transit Bureau
  • Housing Bureau
  • Highway Patrol
  • Transportation Bureau
Facilities
stations 75
Website
http://patnapolice.bih.nic.in

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. Patna Police is the largest police service in the state. Its headquarters are at Gandhi Maidan Marg in Patna. The present SSP of Patna Police is manavjit singh Dhillon since January 1, 2020.

History

Patna is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world, and policing in Patna is more than 3000 years old.

Today

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:

  • Preventing, detecting and investigating crime;
  • Monitoring and promoting road safety;
  • Maintaining social order;
  • Performing and coordinating search and rescue operations; and
  • Emergency management
  • Stopping illegal constructions and frauds
  • They have also started special investigation against liquors and old currency notes of 500 and 1000 INR after the ban.

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):

Zonal level

  • Inspector General of Police - Patna Zone (Sunil Kumar)

Range level

  • Deputy Inspector General of Police - Patna Range (Rajesh Kumar)

District level

  • Senior Superintendent of Police (Upendra Kumar Sharma)
  • (five) Superintendent of Police (SP)
    • City Central (Vinay Tiwari)
    • City East ( Jitender Kumar)
    • City West (Abhinav Kumar)
    • Rural (Kantesh Kuar Mishra)
    • Traffic (D Amrakesh)
  • Additional Superintendent of Police
  • Assistant Superintendent of Police

Circle level

  • (Fifteen) Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP)

Station level

  • Inspector of Police/ Station House Officers
  • Sub-Inspector of Police
  • Assistant Sub-Inspector of Police

Constabulary

  • Head Constable
  • Senior Constable
  • Constable

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.

See also: List of police ranks in India

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