page_title: Bangalore City Police
hierarchical_section_title: Bangalore City Police
caption_attribution_description: English: Bangalore City Police cars
context_page_description: The Bangalore City Police is the law-enforcement agency of the South Indian city of Bangalore. The BCP works under the jurisdiction of the Karnataka State Police and is headed by the Commissioner of Police, Bangalore City, currently Kamal Pant IPS.
  The Bangalore City Police consists of a network of foot patrols, mobile patrols, traffic patrols and armed striking force mobile units in the city. The jurisdiction of the Bangalore City Police 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 a number of police stations, which are headed by a Police inspector.
  Other units within the BCP include Traffic Police, City Armed Reserve, City Special Branch, City Crime Branch and City Crime Records Bureau.
  The Bangalore City Police's mobile patrol consists of mobile vehicular patrols which include Suzuki Ertiga cars called Hoysala and bike patrols called cheetah which consists of TVS Apache and Bajaj Pulsar bikes.
context_section_description: The Bangalore City Police (BCP) is the law-enforcement agency of the South Indian city of Bangalore. The BCP works under the jurisdiction of the Karnataka State Police and is headed by the Commissioner of Police, Bangalore City, currently Kamal Pant IPS.
  The Bangalore City Police consists of a network of foot patrols, mobile patrols, traffic patrols and armed striking force mobile units in the city. The jurisdiction of the Bangalore City Police 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 a number of police stations, which are headed by a Police inspector.
  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).
  The Bangalore City Police's mobile patrol consists of mobile vehicular patrols which include Suzuki Ertiga cars called Hoysala (named after the empire that ruled over most of the state of Karnataka in medieval India) and bike patrols called cheetah which consists of TVS Apache and Bajaj Pulsar 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.
caption: Bangalore City Police Hoysala Cars
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