Employees 10,760 (Uniformed) Legal jurisdiction Patna district | Population 5,838,465 (2011) | |
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Legal personality Governmental: Government agency Operations jurisdiction* District of Patna in the state of Bihar, IN Size 3,202 square kilometres (1,236 sq mi) | ||
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.
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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 In fact, there are documented historical references to policing practices adopted by the Magadha Empire.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, who is an IPS officer.
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.
Helpline numbers
The following are the helpline numbers of Patna Police.
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.