Commissioner of the Kolkata Police

The Commissioner of the Kolkata Police (formerly Commissioner of the Calcutta Police) is the head of the Kolkata Police. The Kolkata police commissioner is appointed by the Minister of Home and Hill Affairs and reports independently to the Home Secretary for West Bengal. The commissioner sits at the Kolkata Police Headquarters, located at 18 Lalbazar Street in the Lalbazar neighbourhood of central Kolkata.

The commissioner is an Indian Police Service officer of the rank of Additional Director-General (ADG) of Police. The commissioner heads the almost 35,000 strong metropolitan police force in a jurisdiction consisting of approximately 243km2 area and is the home to 14,617,992 people (2011 census figures).

List of commissioners of police, Kolkata

Sl.No Name Terms of office Badge name 1 S. Wauchope 1856–1863 2 V. H. Shalch 1863–1866 3 Stuart Saunders Hogg 1866–1876 4 C. T. Metcalfe 1876–1881 5 Henry Harrison 1881–1889 6 Sir John Lambert 1889–1897 7 A. H. James 1897–1901 8 E. M. Showera 1901–1902 9 R. D. O. Bignell 1902–1905 10 Sir Frederick Loch Halliday 1905–1916 11 Sir Reginald Clarke 1916–1923 12 Sir Charles Tegart 1923–1931 13 L. H. Colson 1931–1939 14 Sir C. E. S. Fairweather 1939–1943 15 R. E. A. Ray 1943–1946 16 D. R. Hardwick 1946–1947 17 Surendra Nath Chatterjee 1947–1951 S. N. CHATTERJEE 18 H. S. Ghosh Chaudhuri 1951–1960 19 U. Mukherjee 1960–1962 20 S. M. Ghosh 1962–1964 21 P. K. Sen 1964–1967 22 Ranjit Kumar Gupta 1970–1971 23 R. N. Chatterjee 1971–1972 24 S. C. Chaudhuri 1972–1976 25 S. Basu 1976–1978 26 S. K. Sinha 1978–1980 27 N. Som 1980–1984 28 B. K. Basu 1984–1988 29 B. K. Saha 1988–1992 30 T. K. Talukdar 1992–1996 31 Dinesh Chandra Vajpai 1996–2001 32 S. K. Chakroborty 2001–2004 33 Prasun Mukherjee 17 October 2004 – 16 October 2007 PRASUN MUKHERJEE 34 Gautam Mohan Chakraborty 17 October 2007 – 16 March 2011 GAUTAM 35 Ranjit Kumar Pachnanda 17 March 2011 – 14 February 2013 R. K. PACHNANDA 36 Surajit Kar Purkayastha 14 February 2013 – 13 February 2016 SURAJIT 37 Rajeev Kumar 14 February 2016 – 12 April 2016 RAJEEV 38 Soumen Mitra 13 April 2016 – 21 May 2016 SOUMEN MITRA (37) Rajeev Kumar 21 May 2016 – 19 February 2019 RAJEEV 39 Anuj Sharma 19 February 2019 – 5 April 2019 ANUJ 40 Dr. Rajesh Kumar 6 April 2019 – 26 May 2019 DR. RAJESH (39) Anuj Sharma 26 May 2019 – 6 February 2021 ANUJ (38) Soumen Mitra 6 February 2021 – 31 December 2021 SOUMEN MITRA 41 Vineet Kumar Goyal 1 January 2022 – 17 September 2024 VINEET KUMAR GOYAL 42 Manoj Kumar Verma 17 September 2024 – 30 January 2026 M. K. VERMA 43 Supratim Sarkar 31 January 2026 – 16 March 2026 SUPRATIM 44Ajay Kumar Nand17 March 2026 – IncumbentAJAY KUMAR NAND

See also Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate Police Commissioner of Bangalore Police Commissioner of Delhi Police Commissioner of Mumbai Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad City

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