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.

Commissioner of Kolkata Police Force
Insignia of Commissioner of Police
Incumbent Manoj Kumar Verma, IPS since 17 September 2024
Kolkata Police Force
Style	The Learned Commissioner of Police
Abbreviation	Ld. CP
Residence	2, Loudon Street, Kolkata
Seat	Lalbazar, Kolkata
Appointer	Government of West Bengal
Constituting instrument	The Calcutta Police Act, 1866
Formation	1856; 168 years ago (1856)
First holder	S. Wauchope
Salary	HAG scale (Level 15)
Website	kolkatapolice.gov.in

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	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 [lower-alpha 1]
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	D. C. Vajpai	1996–2001
32	S. K. Chakroborty	2001–2004
33	Prasun Mukherjee	17 Oct 2004 – 2007	PRASUN MUKHERJEE
34	Gautam Mohan Chakraborty	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[1]
(37)	Rajeev Kumar	21 May 2016 – 19 February 2019	RAJEEV[2]
39	Anuj Sharma	19 February 2019 – 5 April 2019	ANUJ[3]
40	Dr. Rajesh Kumar	6 April 2019 – 26 May 2019	DR. RAJESH
(39)	Anuj Sharma	26 May 2019 – 6 Feb 2021	ANUJ
(38)	Soumen Mitra	6 Feb 2021 – 31 Dec 2021	SOUMEN MITRA[4]
41	Vineet Kumar Goyal	1 Jan 2022 – 17 Sep 2024	VINEET KUMAR GOYAL
42	Manoj Kumar Verma	17 Sep 2024 – Incumbent	M. K. VERMA

See also

• Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate
• Police Commissioner of Bangalore
• Police Commissioner of Delhi
• Police Commissioner of Mumbai
• Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad City

Notes

1. He was the first Indian origin Police Commissioner

References

1. "Rajeev Kumar removed, Soumen Mitra new CP of Kolkata", Times of India
2. Munish Chandra Pandey (3 February 2019). "Why Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar is under CBI's scanner?". India Today.
3. Debashish Konar (19 February 2019). "Anuj Sharma appointed new Kolkata police chief". Times of India.
4. "Major IPS reshuffle: West Bengal govt appoints Soumen Mitra as new chief of Kolkata Police". 6 February 2021.