Police Commissioner of Kolkata
The Commissioner of Police, Kolkata is the chief of the Kolkata Police. The Commissioner is appointed by the Government of West Bengal and reports independently to the Home Secretary of the State. The headquarter is at 18, Lal Bazar Street, near B.B.D. Bagh area of Central Kolkata.
The commissioner is an Indian Police Service officer of the rank of Additional Director General of Police. The person heads the almost 35,000 strong metropolitan police force in a jurisdiction consisting of approximately 243 km2 area and is the home to 14,617,992 people.
List of Commissioners of Police, Kolkata (previously Calcutta)
| Sl.No | Name | Terms of Office | Badge Name |
| 1 | S. Wauchope | 1856-1863 | |
| 2 | V. H. Shalch | 1863-1866 | |
| 3 | Sir Stuart Hogg | 1866-1876 | |
| 4 | C. T. Metcalfe | 1876-1881 | |
| 5 | Henry Harrison | 1881-1889 | |
| 6 | Sir John Lambert | 1889-1897 | |
| 7 | A. H. James | 1897-1901 | |
| 8 | E. M. Showera | 1901-1902 | |
| 9 | R. D. O. Bignell | 1902-1905 | |
| 10 | Sir Frederick Loch Halliday | 1905-1916 | |
| 11 | Sir Reginald Clarke | 1916-1923 | |
| 12 | Sir Charles Tegart | 1923-1931 | |
| 13 | L. H. Colson | 1931-1939 | |
| 14 | Sir C. E. S. Fairweather | 1939-1943 | |
| 15 | R. E. A. Ray | 1943-1946 | |
| 16 | D. R. Hardwick | 1946-1947 | |
| 17 | Surendra Nath Chatterjee | 1947-1951 | S. N. CHATTERJEE |
| 18 | H. S. Ghosh Chaudhuri | 1951-1960 | |
| 19 | U. Mukherjee | 1960-1962 | |
| 20 | S. M. Ghosh | 1962-1964 | |
| 21 | P. K. Sen | 1964-1967 | |
| 22 | Ranjit Kumar Gupta | 1967-1971 | |
| 23 | R. N. Chatterjee | 1971-1972 | |
| 24 | S. C. Chaudhuri | 1972-1976 | |
| 25 | S. Basu | 1976-1978 | |
| 26 | S. K. Sinha | 1978-1980 | |
| 27 | N. Som | 1980-1984 | |
| 28 | B. K. Basu | 1984-1988 | |
| 29 | B. K. Saha | 1988-1992 | |
| 30 | T. K. Talukdar | 1992-1996 | |
| 31 | D. C. Vajpai | 1996-2001 | |
| 32 | S. K. Chakravarti | 2001-2004 | |
| 33 | Prasun Mukherjee | 17 Oct 2004–2007 | PRASUN MUKHERJEE |
| 34 | Gautam Mohan Chakrabarti | 17 Oct 2007–16 Mar 2011 | GAUTAM |
| 35 | Ranjit Kumar Pachnanda | 17 Mar 2011–14 Feb 2013 | R. K. PACHNANDA |
| 36 | Surajit Kar Purkayastha | 14 Feb 2013–13 Feb 2016 | SURAJIT |
| 37 | Rajeev Kumar | 14 Feb 2016 – 12 April 2016 | RAJEEV |
| 38 | Soumen Mitra | 13 April 2016 – 21 May 2016 | SOUMEN MITRA |
| 39 | Rajeev Kumar | 21 May 2016 – 19 February 2019 | RAJEEV |
| 40 | Anuj Sharma | 19 February 2019 - 5 April 2019 | ANUJ |
| 41 | Dr. Rajesh Kumar | 6 April 2019 - 26 May 2019 | DR. RAJESH |
| 42 | Anuj Sharma | 26 May 2019 - Present | ANUJ |