Karnataka > Police Administration
Under the rulers of Mysore, the duties of police were performed by Talwars, Totis, Nirganti, Kavalgars, Kattabidi peons, Halepaikas, Umblidars, Amargars, Hulagavals, Ankamalas and Kalla Kormaras who formed the militia and Patels supervised them, under the rule of Tipu and Poorniah in princely Mysore. Dewan Poornia introduced Kandachar Peons for doing the work of police. In 1856, the judicial Commissioner was appointed and he became the ex-officio head of police. In 1879 the Chief Commissioner was in charge of the police. After the Rendition the police administration was under the control of Dewans. Later a police Secretary was appointed. In 1906 the posts of Superintendents and Asst. Superintendents of Police were merged in the general cadre of Assistant Commissioner. Later by 1910, the Police force in Mysore consisted of village police and regular police.
In Madras-Karnataka Area, Talari's (watchmen) in each village was the ancient "Kaval" (watch system). Under this system Talaris were subordinate to Kavalgars who were controlled by Palegars or local chieftains and later by the Patels. In 1904, there was one constable for every six square miles of area, in the Madras Presidency. The head of the department was the Inspector General. Each district was under the District Superintendent of Police. In Bombay Karnataka Area, a regular police force was organised under the administrative control of the District Magistrates by the Bombay Regulation Act XII of 1827. Every district had a Superintendent of police. Earlier there were village militia consisting of talaris and shetsanandis under the supervision of the Patil.
In Hyderabad Karnataka Area there was no well organised police force till 1853. In 1866, a regular police force was raised and placed under the Revenue authorities. In 1869 a special Sadar-ul-Mohawn or Police Minister was appointed for Hyderabad State. After 1948, Gulbarga was the divisional Headquarters comprising four districts of Gulbarga, Bidar, Raichur and Usmanabad. There were two separate Police forces namely the Diwan's police belonged the Nizam's Government and the Jahgir police belonged to individual Jahgirdars, who had been allowed to maintain their own police establishments to administer law and order.
After unification a common Police Act (1963) was implemented. Minor changes have taken place in the administrative set up and as in 1993, in the state the Police set up was as follows; The State Police consists of 27 police districts 3 Police Commissioners at Bangalore, Mysore and Hubli-Dharwad cities, 112 sub-divisions, 228 circles, 782 police stations, and 297 police out-posts and 7 women police staion. The strength of the State Police as in 1991 was 50,009 with 30,434 civil police, 331 civil women police, 11,089 Armed Police 1,661 wireless staff and 6,494 KSRP. The strength state police as on 31.12.1999 was civil police 44,765. CM1 Women police 1416, armed police 15,741 wireless staff 1,337 and KSRP 10,439. There are six ranges viz., Central Range at Bangalore, Eastern Range at Davanagere, Northern Range at Gulbarga, Southern Range at Mysore and Western Range at Mangalore. The Government Railway Police is headed by a D.I.G. of police. There are seven Railway Circles, 18 Railway Police Stations, 25 out-posts.
There are four Police Training Institutes in the State viz, the Police Training College (for officers) at Mysore, Karnataka State Police Training School, Channapatna, Police Training School, Magodu and Armed Police School, Bangalore.
Besides there are Criminal Investigation Department (Forest Cell, Anti-Dowry Cell, etc.,). Dog Squad, the Civil Rights Enforcement Wing, Police Wireless and police Motor Transport Organisation and special unit.] There are Village Defence Parties to guard the villages, to partol for the purpose of preventing crime to protect persons and property in the village and to assist the police when necessary.
Home Guards Organisation also supplement the Police force in case of need. As in 1991 there were 16,122 Home Guards including 500 women Home Guards. As in 1991-92, there were 39 Fire Stations in the State. As on 31.12.1999, 16872 home guards were enrolled including 1,030 women guards as against 900 in 1998 functioning in 17 district of the State. A total of 105 fire stations were functioning in the state as on 31.12.1999.
Presently, the Police Department in the state has four officers of the rank of Director General & Inspector General of Police and one among them will be appointed by the Government to Head the entire department. He is assisted by 11 ADGP's, 26 IG's, 25 DIG's, 57 SP's and a host of Dy. SP's/ACP's, Inspectors, Sub-Inspectors, Assistant Sub-Inspectors and the Constabulary.
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