Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh government implemented a police commissionerate system in Bhopal and Indore. The police staff in the city will be under the police commissioner. However, the Inspector General of Police (IG) and Superintendent of Police (SP) will take charge in the countryside zone. Now, the commissioner will have powers under Police Act 1861, Prisoners Act 1900, Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act 1956, Unlawful Activities Prevention Act 1967, Poisons Act 1919, Motor Vehicles Act 1988, MP State Security Act 1990 and Official Secrets Act 1926.
MP home minister Narottam Mishra informed that the notification has been issued in this regard and 2 commissioners will be appointed in Bhopal and Indore, who will also have magisterial powers. “The ADG rank officers will be appointed as commissioners. 2 officers of inspector general of police will be appointed as additional police commissioners and 8 officers of superintendent of police ranks will be appointed as deputy commissioners,” said the minister.
The system was implemented9 years after the first announcement by chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan was made in 2012. Later, in 2014, then home minister Babulal Gaur announced that MP cities didn’t have enough population to have a commissioner system. The matter again came to light in 2016, when IPS officers association wrote a letter to the chief minister for the implementation of the system. A month ago, chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced that the system will be implemented this year itself.