The Commissioner of Police , Kolkata is the chief of the Kolkata Police

Kolkata Police

The Kolkata Police Force is one of the two police forces of the Indian state of West Bengal....

. The commissioner is appointed by the Government of West Bengal

West Bengal

West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...

 and reports independently to the Home (Police) Department of the State. The headquarters are at 18,Lalbazar Street, near B.B.D. Bagh  area in Central Kolkata. The commissioner is an Indian Police Service

Indian Police Service

The Indian Police Service , simply known as Indian Police or IPS, is one of the three All India Services of the Government of India...

 officer of the rank of additional DG & IG of police. He heads this almost 27,000 strong metropolitan police force in a jurisdiction consisting of approximately 185 km² and home to 45,80,544 people (2001 Census figures).

List of commissioners of Kolkata (previously Calcutta) Police

• S. Wauchope  1856-1863
• V. H. Shalch  1863-1866
• Sir Stuart Hogg  1866-1876
• C. T. Metcalfe  1876-1881
• Henry Harrison
  Henry Harrison
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    1881-1889
• Sir John Lambert  1889-1897
• A. H. James  1897-1901
• E. M. Showera  1901-1902
• R. D. O. Bignell  1902-1905
• Sir Frederick Loch Halliday  1905-1916
• Sir Reginald Clarke  1916-1923
• Sir Charles Tegart  1923-1931
• L. H. Colson  1931-1939
• Sir C. E. S. Fairweather  1939-1943
• R. E. A. Ray  1943-1946
• D. R. Hardwick  1946-1947
• S. N. Chatterjee  1947-1951
• H. S. Ghoshchaudhuri  1951-1960
• U. Mukherjee  1960-1962
• S. M. Ghosh  1962-1964
• P. K. Sen  1964-1970
• R. K. Gupta  1970-1971
• R. N. Chatterjee IPS  1971-1972
• S. C. Chaudhuri  1972-1976
• S. Basu  1976-1978
• S. K. Sinha 1978-1980
• N. Som  1980-1984
• B. K. Basu  1984-1988
• B. K. Saha  1988-1992
• T. K. Talukdar  1992-1996
• D. C. Vajpai  1996-2001
• S. K. Chakravarti  2001-2004
• Prasun Mukherjee
  Prasun Mukherjee
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    2004-17 Oct (AN),2007
• Gautam Mohan Chakrabarti 17 Oct(AN), 2007- 16 Mar, 2011
• R.K. Pachnanda 17 Mar, 2011- Till date