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CURRENT AFFAIR

• Recently, the Uttar Pradesh government gave nod to the implementation of the police commissionerate  system in the two cities, Lucknow and Noida.

DETAILS

• The Additional Director General of Police rank officer would be appointed as commissioner and will have  two Inspector General of Police Rank officers as 
• The current system would be monitored for six- months on a review basis to know its effectiveness in  handling law and order better and the earlier system of  District Magistrates (DMs) would be done away on an  experimental basis.

NEW SYSTEM

• This system gives more responsibilities including magisterial powers to IPS officers of the rank of  Inspector general of Police who are posted as

SIGNIFICANCE

• To facilitate faster decision making in solving complex urban centric issues.
• According to a BPRD report 61 cities in 15 states had this system in place by January , 2018 .
• Sixth National police Commission report released in 1983 had recommended introduction of commissionerate  system in cities with a population of 5 lakh and above.
• In 2005 a draft Model Police Act framed by a committee set up by the Union Home Ministry also made similar  recommendation saying metro cities and major urban areas  with a population of 10 lakhs or more should have a Police  Commissioner System.

HIGHLIGHTS

• The new team would also have a special Superintendent of Police (SP) appointed for women  security to ensure control of crime related to women  and timely investigation of the registered cases.
• There would be another SP rank officer who would be in charge of Traffic management. CCTV cameras  would be installed at different places in these two  cities for better traffic management and also for law  and order.

Police Commissionerate System

• Under the 7th Schedule of the Constitution, Police is under the State list.
• It means individual states can legislate and exercise control over this subject.

Dual system

• At the district level, a ‘dual system’ of control exists, in which the SP has to work with the DM for supervising  police administration.

Metropolitan level

• At the metropolitan level, many states have replaced the dual system with the commissionerate system.
• It is supposed to allow for faster decision-making to solve complex urban-centric issues.

STATE WISE DISTRIBUTION

• Almost all states barring Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, UT of J&K, and some Northeastern states have a  commissionerate system.
• The British brought the system first in Kolkata and followed it in Mumbai and Chennai presidencies.
• Delhi turned into a commissionerate during 1977-1979.

Commissioner of Police (CP)

• In the commissionerate system, the Commissioner of Police (CP) is the head of a unified police command
• He/she is responsible for the force in the city and is accountable to the state government.
• The office also has magisterial powers, including those related to regulation, control, and licensing.
• Under this system, the commissioner does not report to the
• The CP is drawn from the Deputy Inspector General rank or above and is assisted by  Special/Joint/Additional/Deputy Commissioners.

Dual System

• Under the colonial system, the overall in-charge of a district or region was the district collector and the SP  reported to him.
• The powers of the executive magistrate, such as issuing orders for preventive arrests or imposition of Section  144 CrPC, were vested in the district collector.
• This was called the dual system of police

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