Bangalore City Police
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| Name | Bangalore City Police (BCP) |
| Area of Jurisdiction | Bangalore City |
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Bangalore Bangalore Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and... , India India India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world... |
| Commissioner | Jyothi Prakash B Mirji |
| Additional Commissioner(s) | T Sunil Kumar Dr Abdulla Saleem M U Nisar Ahamed |
| http://www.bcp.gov.in | |
Bangalore
Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. The BCP works under the jurisdiction
Jurisdiction
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of the Karnataka State Police.
The Bangalore City Police consists of a network of foot patrols, mobile patrols, traffic
Traffic
Traffic on roads may consist of pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars and other conveyances, either singly or together, while using the public way for purposes of travel...
patrols and armed striking force mobile units in the city. The jurisdiction of the Bangalore City Police 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
Assistant Commissioner
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of Police. Each sub-division consists of a number of police station
Police station
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s, which are headed by a Police inspector.
Other units within the BCP include Traffic Police, City Armed Reserve (CAR), Airport Security — responsible for the overall security of Bangalore's HAL Airport, City Special Branch (CSB), City Crime Branch (CCB) and City Crime Records Bureau (CCRB).
The Bangalore City Police's mobile patrol consists of more than 100 mobile vehicular patrols called Hoysala, named after the empire that ruled over most of the state of Karnataka in medieval India
Middle kingdoms of India
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.
The Bangalore City Police is one of the few police departments in India
India
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along with the Kochi Police to use BlackBerry
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s.
History
Bangalore City Police, established in 1963, was the first established police force in the state of Karnataka. The first BCP Police Commissioner was C. Chandy and was of the rank Deputy Inspector General of Police. Today, Bangalore City Police consists of 104 Law & Order police stationPolice station
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s & 39 Traffic Police Stations, including two all-women police stations.
Police Commissioner
The Commissioner of Police is the chief of the Bangalore City Police. The Commissioner of Police is of the rank of Additional Director General of Police and is assisted by four Additional Commissioners of the police, one Joint Commissioner of Police and 18 Deputy CommissionerDeputy Commissioner
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s of Police. The current Police Commissioner of Bangalore is Jyothi Prakash B Mirji, IPS.