Bangalore City Police

The Bangalore City Police (BCP) is the law-enforcement agency of the South Indian city of Bangalore. The BCP works under the Karnataka State Police jurisdiction and is headed by the Commissioner of Police, Bangalore City, currently Pratap Reddy, IPS.

Bangalore City Police
Common name	BCP
Motto	We Serve, We Protect
Agency overview
Formed	4 July, 1963
Jurisdictional structure
Federal agency	India
Operations jurisdiction	Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Size	709 km2
Population	8,728,906
Governing body	Government of Karnataka
General nature	Federal law enforcement
Operational structure
Headquarters	No.1, Infantry Road, Bangalore.^[1]
Elected officer responsible	Araga Jnanendra, Karnataka State Home Minister
Agency executive	C H Pratap Reddy, IPS, Commissioner of Police, Bangalore City
Parent agency	Karnataka Police
Child agency	Bangalore City Traffic Police
Facilities
Stations	110
Website
www.bcp.gov.in

The Bangalore City Police consists of foot patrols, mobile patrols, traffic patrols and striking armed force mobile units. The Bangalore City Police jurisdiction 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 of Police. Each sub-division consists of several police stations controlled by a Police inspector.

The call sign for BCP officers is given below -

• . Commissioner of Police - Compol
• . Additional Commissioner of Police, West - Jupiter
• . Additional Commissioner of Police, East - Scorpio
• . Deputy Commissioner of Police - Depcom
• . Assistant Commissioner of Police - Able
• . Police Inspector - Charlie
• . Sub Inspector of Police - Walkie

Other units within the BCP include Traffic Police, City Armed Reserve (CAR), City Special Branch (CSB), City Crime Branch (CCB) and City Crime Records Bureau (CCRB).

Bangalore City Police Hoysala Cars

The Bangalore City Police's mobile patrol consists of mobile vehicular patrols, including Suzuki Ertiga and Toyota Innova cars called Hoysala (named after the empire that ruled over most of Karnataka in medieval India) and bike patrols called cheetah, which consists of TVS Apache, Bajaj Pulsar and Hero Glamour Red bikes.

The Bangalore City Police is one of the few police departments in India along with the Pune Police and Kochi Police to use BlackBerry devices.^[2][3]

Ranks of law enforcement in Bangalore

Gazetted Officers

Indian Police Service gazetted officers rank insignia ^[4][5][6]

Insignia

Rank

Director General of Police

Additional Director General of Police^[note 1]

Inspector General of Police

Deputy Inspector General of Police

Assistant Inspector General of Police / Senior Superintendent of Police

Superintendent of Police

Additional superintendent of police

Deputy superintendent of police

Assistant Superintendent of Police (Probationary Rank: 2 years of service)

Assistant Superintendent of Police (Probationary Rank: 1 year of service)

Abbreviation

DGP

ADGP

IGP

DIG

AIG/SSP

SP

Addl. SP

DSP

ASP

ASP

Note: Commissioner of police is a post is held by different rank officers in different places. For example, it is held by DG rank officers only in Delhi and Mumbai; by Addl. DG rank officers in Pune, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Lucknow, Varanasi, Guwahati etc; by IG rank officers in Gurgaon, Ludhiana, Mysore etc; by DIG rank officers in Trivandrum, Kochi etc.

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Non-gazetted officers

Indian Police non-gazetted officers rank insignia ^[7][8][9]

Insignia

No insignia

Rank

Inspector

Assistant inspector^[note 2]

Sub-inspector

Assistant sub-inspector

Head constable^[note 3]^[note 4]

Police Naik

Constable^[note 5]

Abbreviation

INS/CI

API

SI

ASI

HC/SCPO

SC

PC/CPO

Note: Colour pattern and size of chevrons may vary according to the different rules of several distinct Indian State Police services.

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 Chandi and was of the rank Deputy Inspector General of Police. Today, Bangalore City Police consists of 108 Law & Order police stations, and 42 Traffic Police Stations, including two all-women police stations. It also has more than 200 patrolling vehicles.

Suraksha App

For smartphone users, the BCP has Suraksha App (safety app) available for free. The app helps women in distress alert police for help, as it is linked to the police control room and patrol vehicles in the city.^[10]

See also

• Karnataka Police
• Police IT
• Bangalore City Traffic Police

Notes

1. Rank insignia of DGP is similar to additional DGP.
2. This rank only exists in the Maharashtra Police.
3. Shoulder insignia rank only used in the Maharashtra Police.
4. The Senior Civil Police Officer rank only exist in Kerala Police
5. The Civil Police Officer rank only exist in Kerala Police, this rank is equivalent to police constable of other state police forces.

References

1. [1]^{[dead link]}
2. . The Hindu. 18 March 2008. Archived from the original on 24 March 2008. Retrieved 5 July 2009.
3. "Kochi traffic police go Blackberry". Retrieved 6 May 2015.
4. "Police Ranks" (PDF). Maharashtra Police. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
5. "Governance of Kerala Police". Kerala Police. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
6. "Police Ranks and Badges". Odisha Police. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
7. "Police Ranks" (PDF). Maharashtra Police. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
8. "Governance of Kerala Police". Kerala Police. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
9. "Police Ranks and Badges". Odisha Police. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
10. "Karnataka Launches 'Suraksha' App For Women Safety; Adds 51 Patrol Vehicles to Fleet". News18. IANS. 11 April 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2019.

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