Kanpur Police


Kanpur Police is the police department and the district unit of the Uttar Pradesh Police for the district of Kanpur Nagar and is responsible for law enforcement in the district, which includes the city of Kanpur. The Department is divided amongst the Official and the Traffic branch.

Structure

Kanpur district comes under the Kanpur Police Zone and Kanpur Police Range, Kanpur Zone is headed by an Additional Director General ranked IPS officer, and the Kanpur Range is headed Inspector General ranked IPS officer. The current ADG, Kanpur Zone is J.N.Singh, and IG, Kanpur Range is Mohit Agrawal.
The district police is headed by Senior Superintendent of Police who is an IPS officer, and is assisted by seven Superintendents of Police /Additional Superintendents of Police , who are either IPS officers or PPS officers. Each of the several police circles is headed Circle an Officer in the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police. The current SSP/ DIG is Dr. Preetinder Singh.
The final responsibility of law and order at the divisional and district level however is of the Divisional Commissioner of Kanpur and the District Magistrate of Kanpur respectively.

Patrolling and duty

The district police has increased the police patrolling during late night hours and launched an awareness campaign in the commercial as well as residential localities as a precautionary measure in order to check cases of theft in the industrial district.