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

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).

Hierarchy

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.

Ranks of law enforcement in Bengaluru

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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.