Patna Police (Hindi: पटना पुलिस) is the police service responsible for law enforcement within Patna district, including the capital city of Patna in an Indian state of Bihar.[3][4] Patna Police is the largest police service in the state. Its headquarters are at Gandhi Maidan Marg in Patna. The present SSP of Patna Police is Rajeev Mishra (IPS).
Patna police is broadly divided into four regions namely Central, East, West and Rural, each headed by a Superintendent of Police. For administrative purposes, each region is subdivided into Neighbourhood Policing Teams, each led by an Inspector. The Neighbourhood Policing Team's are responsible for the bulk of the community work undertaken in an area, and look to deal with long term local issues including anti-social behaviour.
The Traffic Police is a semi-autonomous body under the Patna Police.
Services provided by the Patna Police include:
Preventing, detecting and investigating crime;
Monitoring and promoting road safety;
Maintaining social order;
Performing and coordinating search and rescue operations; and
Emergency management
Stopping illegal constructions and frauds
They have also started special investigation against liquors and old currency notes of 500 and 1000 INR after the ban.
Further policing duties performed are traffic control, intelligence analysis and anti-terrorism investigation. The overall mission of the Patna Police is to protect life and property and to detect and prevent crime.
Hierarchy
The rank structure of Patna Police officers is as follows (in descending order of seniority):
Zonal level
Inspector General of Police (IG) - Patna Zone
Range level
Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) - Central Range (Patna + Nalanda)
Recently, a proposal for creating police commissioner system for the state capital has been sent to the state government by Bihar Police, the parent agency.[8]
