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#REDIRECT [[Commissioner of the Kolkata Police]]
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{{Infobox official post
| post = Commissioner
| body                    = Kolkata Police Force
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| insignia                = Director_General_of_Police.png
| insigniasize            = 75px
| insigniacaption        = Insignia of Commissioner of Police
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| flagcaption            = Logo of Kolkata Police
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| incumbent              = Vineet Kumar Goyal, [[Indian Police Service|IPS]]
| acting                  =
| incumbentsince          = Jan 1, 2022
| department              = [[Kolkata Police Force]]
| style                  = The Learned Commissioner of Police
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| abbreviation            = Ld. CP
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| residence              = 2, Loudon Street, Kolkata
| seat                    = [[Lalbazar]], Kolkata
| nominator              =
| appointer              = [[Government of West Bengal]]
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| constituting_instrument = The Calcutta Police Act, 1866
| precursor              =
| formation              = 1856
| first                  = S. Wauchope
| last                    =
| abolished              =
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| unofficial_names        =
| deputy                  =
| salary                  = HAG scale (Level 15)
| website                = {{url|https://kolkatapolice.gov.in}}
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The '''Commissioner of Police, Kolkata''' is the chief of the [[Kolkata Police]].  The Kolkata [[Commissioner of Police (India)|Police Commissioner]] is appointed by the Government of [[West Bengal]] and reports independently to the Home Secretary of the State.  The headquarter is at 18, Lal Bazar Street, near [[B.B.D. Bagh]] area of Central Kolkata.
The commissioner is an [[Indian Police Service]] officer of the rank of Additional Director General (ADG) of Police. The person heads the almost 35,000 strong metropolitan police force in a jurisdiction consisting of approximately 243&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup> area and is the home to 14,617,992 people (2011 census figures).
==List of Commissioners of Police, Kolkata==
{|class="wikitable"
!Sl.No !! Name !! Terms of Office !! Badge Name
|-
| 1 || S. Wauchope  || 1856–1863 ||
|-
| 2 ||  V. H. Shalch  || 1863–1866 ||
|-
| 3 || [[Sir Stuart 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 {{efn|he was the first Indian origin Police COmmissioner}}
|-
| 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]] || 1967–1971 ||
|-
| 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 || D. C. Vajpai || 1996–2001 ||
|-
| 32 || S. K. Chakravarti || 2001–2004 ||
|-
| 33 || [[Prasun Mukherjee]] || 17 Oct 2004 – 2007 || PRASUN MUKHERJEE
|-
| 34 || Gautam Mohan Chakrabarti || 17 Oct 2007 – 16 Mar 2011 || GAUTAM
|-
| 35 || Ranjit Kumar Pachnanda || 17 Mar 2011 – 14 Feb 2013 || R. K. PACHNANDA
|-
| 36 || [[Surajit Kar Purkayastha]] || 14 Feb 2013 – 13 Feb 2016 || SURAJIT
|-
| 37 || Rajeev Kumar || 14 Feb 2016 – 12 April 2016 || RAJEEV
|-
| 38 || [[Soumen Mitra]] || 13 April 2016 – 21 May 2016 || SOUMEN MITRA<ref>{{citation|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Rajeev-Kumar-removed-Soumen-Mitra-new-Kolkata-CP/articleshow/51796835.cms|title=Rajeev Kumar removed, Soumen Mitra new CP of Kolkata|work=Times of India}}</ref>
|-
| 39 || Rajeev Kumar || 21 May 2016 – 19 February 2019 || RAJEEV<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/kolkata-police-commissioner-rajeev-kumar-under-cbi-scanner-1446077-2019-02-03|title=Why Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar is under CBI's scanner?|work=India Today|date=3 February 2019|author=Munish Chandra Pandey}}</ref>
|-
| 40 ||[[Anuj Sharma (IPS)|Anuj Sharma]]|| 19 February 2019 – 5 April 2019 || ANUJ<ref>{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/anuj-sharma-appointed-new-kolkata-police-chief/articleshow/68061970.cms|title=Anuj Sharma appointed new Kolkata police chief|work=Times of India|date=19 February 2019|author=Debashish Konar}}</ref>
|-
| 41 || [[Rajesh Kumar (IPS)|Dr. Rajesh Kumar]]|| 6 April 2019 – 26 May 2019 || DR. RAJESH
|-
| 42 || [[Anuj Sharma (IPS)|Anuj Sharma]]|| 26 May 2019 – 6 Feb 2021 || ANUJ
|-
| 43 || [[Soumen Mitra]]|| 6 Feb 2021–31 Dec 2021 || SOUMEN MITRA<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oneindia.com/india/major-ips-reshuffle-soumen-mitra-back-at-the-helm-of-kolkata-police-3213265.html|title=Major IPS reshuffle: West Bengal govt appoints Soumen Mitra as new chief of Kolkata Police|date=6 February 2021}}</ref>
|-
| 44 || Vineet Kumar Goyal|| 1 Jan 2021—''Incumbent''||
|}
==See also==
* [[Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate]]
* [[Commissioner of Police, Bangalore City]]
* [[Commissioner of Police, Delhi]]
== References ==
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