The Uttar Pradesh Police (Hindi: उत्तर प्रदेश पुलिस, IAST:), colloquially known as the U.P. Police, is the primary law enforcement agency of the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It was established in 1863 as the Office of the Inspector General of Police, United Provinces, under the "Police Act, 1861".
Uttar Pradesh Police is one of the oldest police departments in the Republic of India, and is the largest police force in the world, having about 68 district police department (excluding 7 commissionerates) in it.
The Uttar Pradesh Police is headquartered at Signature Building, Gomti Nagar Extension in Lucknow, having been previously located in the state's judicial capital: Prayagraj.
The Uttar Pradesh Police employ around 1,368 gazetted officers, and 231,443 non gazetted uniformed officers. Uttar Pradesh Police is governed by the Department of Home and Confidential of Uttar Pradesh. The Uttar Pradesh Police is headed by the Director General of Police (DGP) for the state of Uttar Pradesh, who is the highest-ranking (DG) IPS officer of the state cadre. UP Police is the first Indian state police agency to have a highway patrol Unit, the UP-Highway Police (UPHP).
History The present police system in the country was created following the recommendation of the Police Commission headed by Mr. H.M. Court in 1860, which led to the enactment of the Police Act of 1861 that is in force even today. The same Mr. Court became the first Inspector General of Police (IGP) of the then North West Province and Avadh which comprised the territory of the present state of Uttar Pradesh. The Police structure was erected in the form of the following eight organizations: Provincial Police Government Railway Police Municipal Police Cantonment Police Town Police Rural and Road Police Canal Police Barkandaj Guard (to protect the courts)
The Civil Police too continued to grow and Mr. B.N. Lahiri was the first Indian Inspector General of Police of Uttar Pradesh after independence. The performance of the state police in the spheres of Crime control and maintenance of law and order was highly appreciated, due to which it had the proud privilege of being the first police force in the country to receive the President's Color on 23 November 1952 by the then Prime Minister of India, Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru. Various specialized wings of the U.P. police have since come into existence for combating organized crimes, economic offences, terrorism, etc.
Organization and structure
A Director General of Police (DGP) heads the state police. He is assisted by many police officers. State police headquarters is situated in Lucknow.
For the purpose of maintaining law and order in the state, the state of Uttar Pradesh is divided into 8 police zones. Each zone is headed by an officer of the rank of additional director general of police who is an officer of the Indian police Service. Each police zone is constituted by 2 to 3 police ranges. There are a total of 18 police ranges in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Each range is headed by an officer of the rank of either inspector general of police or deputy inspector general of police. Each police range is constituted by around 2 to 4 districts.
District Police Units
There are a total of 68 District police units (headed by SP/SSP) and 7 Police Commissionerate (headed by CP) in the state.
In each district (except all current 7 commissionerates), the head of the police is the SP or SSP. In the discharge of his duties, he is assisted by Superintendent of Police (SP), Deputy Superintendent of Police (Deputy SP) or Assistant Superintendent of Police who may either be the officers of the Provincial Police Service or Indian Police Service.
The number of SPs and Deputy SPs varies with the size, population, police work, or nature of police work in different districts. The number of SPs and Dy.SPs in districts like Gorakhpur, Bareilly, Meerut, Moradabad is considerably more than other districts. Whereas in smaller districts like Baghpat, Kannauj, Mahoba, Chandauli the number of the PPS officers is relatively lesser.
Typically, a police district in the state corresponds with the administrative district. Though, the head of the police force in the district is the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP)/Superintendent of police (SP), who is always an officer of the Indian Police Service, the ultimate/final responsibility with regard to the maintenance of the law and order in the district lies with the district magistrate who is an officer of the Indian Administrative Service. The police district is further subdivided into police sub-divisions or police circles. A police circle is usually headed by an officer of the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police or Assistant Superintendent of Police. The officer heading the police circle/sub-division is designated as the Circle Officer (C.O.) in the state of Uttar Pradesh. A police circle is usually constituted by 2 to 4 police stations. Each police station is headed by a police inspector. Throughout the state of Uttar Pradesh and other states, especially in North India, there is the main police station in the older/ main part of the city known as the Kotwali. The Kotwali covers the main or usually the older part of the town/city under its jurisdiction. Earlier, when the cities and towns were smaller and had a lesser population than at present and they hadn't grown in size so much, Kotwali covered the main town area of the cities or the districts. A police station is also called as a thana in the local language. The officer in charge of a police station is designated as or called as the station officer (S.O.) or station house officer (S.H.O). He is assisted by various sub-inspectors, head-constables, constables. There are also a number of police chowkis that come under the police station. A police chowki is under the charge of a sub-inspector of police. The regular constabulary carries the bulk of normal beat policing and patrolling.
Zones, Ranges and districts
+List of the police zones, ranges and districts falling under them # Zone Headed by(post) # Range Headed by(post) # District Headed by(post) 1 Lucknow zone ADG/IG 1 Lucknow IG/DIG 1 Unnao SP 2 Sitapur SP 3 Hardoi SP 4 Rae Bareli SP 5 Kheri SP 2 Ayodhya DIG 1 Ayodhya SSP 2 Barabanki SP 3 Sultanpur SP 4 Ambedkar Nagar SP 5 Amethi SP 2 Bareilly zone ADG/IG 1 Bareilly IG/DIG 1 Bareilly SSP 2 Shahjahanpur SP 3 Pilibhit SP 4 Badaun SSP 2 Moradabad DIG 1 Moradabad SSP 2 Jyotiba Phule Nagar SP 3 Rampur SP 4 Bijnor SP 5 Sambhal SP 3 Meerut zone ADG/IG 1 Meerut IG/DIG 1 Meerut SSP 2 Baghpat SP 3 Bulandshahr SSP 4Hapur SP 2 Saharanpur DIG 1 Saharanpur SSP 2 Muzaffarnagar SSP 3 Shamli SP 4 Agra zone ADG/IG 1 Agra IG/DIG 1 Mathura SSP 2 Firozabad SP 3 Mainpuri SP 2 Aligarh DIG 1 Aligarh SSP 2 Hathras SP 3 Etah SSP 4 Kasganj SP 5 Kanpur zone ADG/IG 1 Kanpur IG/DIG 1 Kanpur Dehat SP 2 Auraiya SP 3 Kannauj SP 4 Farrukhabad SP 5 Etawah SSP 2 Jhansi DIG 1 Jhansi SSP 2 Jalaun SP 3 Lalitpur SP 6 Prayagraj zone ADG/IG 1 Prayagraj IG/DIG 1 Kaushambi SP 2 Pratapgarh SP 3 Fatehpur SP 2 Chitrakoot Dham DIG 1 Chitrakoot SP 2 Hamirpur SP 3 Banda SP 4 Mahoba SP 7 Varanasi zone ADG/IG 1 Varanasi IG/DIG 1 Chandauli SP 2 Jaunpur SP 3 Ghazipur SP 2 Mirzapur DIG 1 Mirzapur SSP 2 Bhadohi SP 3 Sonbhadra SP 3 Azamgarh DIG 1 Azamgarh SP 2 Mau SP 3 Ballia SP 8 Gorakhpur zone ADG/IG 1 Gorakhpur IG/DIG 1 Gorakhpur SSP 2 Maharajganj SP 3 Kushinagar SP 4 Deoria SP 2Basti DIG 1 Basti SP 2 Sant Kabir Nagar SP 3 Siddharth Nagar SP 3 Devipatan DIG 1 Gonda SP 2 Balrampur SP 3 Shravasti SP 4 Bahraich SP Total police zones 8 Total police ranges 18 Total police districts 68
Commissionerates There are currently 7 police commissionerates under UP Police - SR NoNameCommissioner of PoliceCP's RankFormedReference1Lucknow PoliceTarun Gauba, IPSADGP14 January 20202Gautam Buddha Nagar Police CommissionerateLaxmi Singh, IPSADGP14 January 20203Kanpur Nagar Police CommissionerateRK Swarnakar, IPSADGP25 March 20214Varanasi Police CommissionerateMohit Aggarwal, IPSADGP25 March 20215Prayagraj Police CommissioneratePiyush Mordia, IPSADGP26 November 20226Agra Police CommissionerateDr Preetendar Singh, IPS IGP26 November 20227Ghaziabad Police CommissionerateAjay Mishra, IPSIGP26 November 2022 In the police commissionerate system, the Commissioner of Police (CP) in the rank of Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) or Inspector General of Police (IGP) heads the district police department or commissionerate.
In Lucknow Police, the CP is assisted by 2 Joint Commissioners of Police (JCPs) with the ranks of IG and DIG, in Kanpur Police the commissioner is assisted by 2 Additional Commissioners (Addl. CPs) in the ranks of IG and DIG who look after Law and order while other looks into Crime & Headquarters respectively, whereas in all other commissionerates the commissioner is assisted by Addl.CP(s) of DIG rank. Under them, there is a team of IPS & PPS officers who are posted as DCPs and ACPs. Three DCPs are posted in a zone. One DCP's insignia is the state emblem above one star, who is senior to the other two DCPs, whose insignia is one state emblem only. Under the DCPs work ACPs, who are the chiefs of various circles. They are vested with the powers of the executive magistrate for criminal cases.
Police Commissionerates are independent of zonal & range police chiefs' supervision. They are also vested with powers of an executive magistrate under various acts.
Hierarchy
Officers
Director general of police (DGP) Additional Director General of Police (ADG) Inspector general of police (IG) Deputy inspector general of police (DIG) Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Superintendent of Police (SP) Additional Superintendent of Police (Addl. SP) Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Deputy superintendent of police (DSP)
Subordinates
Inspector of Police (PI) Sub-Inspector of police (SI) Assistant Sub-inspector of police (ASI) Head constable (HC) Police constable (PC)
Ranks of law enforcement in Uttar Pradesh Gazetted Officers
Non-gazette officers
Police Units Units of Uttar Pradesh PoliceNo.UnitCurrent Officer ExecutiveRank1DG Police Intelligence & CBCIDVijay Kumar DGP2DG Police HQRS DR. N. RAVINDERADG/GSO 3Police HQRS Bhagirath P. JogdandADG 4Anti Corruption OrgRaja SrivastavaADG5Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS)NAVEEN ARORAADG5Criminal Investigative Department (CID)Vijay KumarDGK. Satya NarayanADG6Economic Offences Wing (EOG)Prashant KumarSpecial DG7Fire ServicesAvinash ChandraDG8Government Railway Police (GRP)Jai Narain SinghADG9Human RightsSatish Kumar MathurDG10Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) Kalluri SP KumarADG11Recruitment Board (UPPR &PB)Renuka MishraDG12Rules & ManualTanuja SrivastavaDG13SecurityBinod K. SinghADG14Special EnquiresChandra PrakashDG15Special Investigation department\ intelligences bureau (SID/IB)Ashutosh PandeyADG16Special Task Force (STF)Amitabh YashADG17Traffic DirectorateAnupam KulshresthaADG18Training DirectorateRenuka MishraDG/Training HQRSAnju GuptaDG/PTS MeerutAjay AnandADG/PTS SultanpurNavniet SekeraADG/PTS UnnaoSUNIL KUMAR GUPTAADG/Training HQRSA. Satish GaneshADG/PTS MoradabadAmit ChandraADG/PTC Dr BRAP Academy Moradabad19Technical ServicesMohit AgarwalADG20TelecomSunil Kumar GuptaADG21VigilanceVijay KumarDG22LogisticsRaj KumarADG23(UP 112) ITECCSAshok Kumar SinghADG24Civil DefenceMukul GoelDG25Mahilla Samman PrakoshthNeera RawatADG
List of UP Police Chiefs