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Commissionerate system
January 19 , 2020
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- Previously, only four cities had the Commissionerate system of policing: Kolkata, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Chennai.
- Now, it will be implemented in Lucknow and Noida of Uttar Pradesh.
- In the Commissionerate system, the Commissioner of Police (CP) is the head of a unified police command structure, is responsible for the force in the city, and is accountable to the state government.
- The system gives more responsibilities, including magisterial powers, to IPS officers of Inspector General of Police (IG) rank posted as commissioners.
Mechanism
- Policing is based on the Police Act of 1861.
- Under the colonial system, the overall in-charge of a district or region was the district collector; the SP reported to him.
- But under the Commissionerate system, the commissioner does not report to the District Magistrate.
- Under the 7th Schedule of the Constitution, ‘Police’ is under the State list, meaning individual states typically legislate and exercise control over this subject.
- In the arrangement in force at the district level, a ‘dual system’ of control exists, in which the Superintendent of Police (SP) has to work with the District Magistrate (DM) for supervising police administration.
- At the metropolitan level, many states have replaced the dual system with the Commissionerate system, as it is supposed to allow for faster decision-making to solve complex urban-centric issues.
Where
- Almost all states barring Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, UT of J&K, and some North eastern states have a Commissionerate system.
- The British brought the system first in Kolkata and followed it in Mumbai and Chennai presidencies.
- Delhi turned into a Commissionerate during the Morarji Desai regime.
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