Kollam City Police
The Kollam City Police is the law enforcement agency concerned with the maintenance of law and order in the Indian city of Kollam and the municipalities of Karunagappalli and Paravur along with several towns in Kollam district. Kollam City Police is the first ISO 9001 certified law enforcement agency in Kerala state and second one in India. The Kollam City Police has about 2,200 officers and handles an average of 35000 cases per year.
History
In the pre-independence era, Kerala was divided into princely states of Travancore and Cochin and the Malabar region for the smooth administration. There was no Commissionerate in Kollam until 2011. The whole district police was administered by DySP of Kollam, Karunagappally, Kottarakkara and Punalur. As per the Government Order no 32/2011/Home dated 5 February 2011, Kollam district police was divided into Kollam Urban Police District and Kollam Rural Police District. The City Police is headed by a City Police Commissioner, with its headquarters at Kollam. The Police Commissioner holds the rank of Superintendent of Police and is from the IPS cadre. The rural police is headed by the District Police Chief, with its headquarters at Kottarakkara. Both heads report to the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Thiruvananthapuram Range. The Kollam City Police came into existence on 1March 2011 following the division of the Kollam District Police force into the Kollam City Police and the Kollam Rural Police.Location
The office of the Kollam's City Police Commissioner is situated near the Armed Reserve Police Force camp in Kollam Cantonment.Administrative divisions
There are a total of 20 police stations under the control of Kollam City Police, 11 of which are under the control of the Kollam Division with 5 further stations under Chathannoor division and 4 under Karunagappally division.Kollam Division
- Kollam East Police Station
- Kollam West Police Station
- Pallithottam Police Station
- Anchalummoodu Police Station
- Sakthikulangara Police Station
- Eravipuram Police Station
- Kilikollur Police Station
- Kollam Traffic Police Station
- Kollam East Women Police Station
- Cyber Police Station
- Neendakara Coastal Police Station
Chathannoor Division
- Paravur Police Station
- Chathannoor Police Station
- Kottiyam Police Station
- Kannanalloor Police Station
- Parippally Police Station
Karunagappally Division
- Karunagappally Police Station
- Oachira Police Station
- Chavara Police Station
- Chavara Thekkumbhagom Police Station
City Police Commissioners
The Office is presently headed by Smt. Kiran Narayanan IPS, Commissioner of Police, who is an Indian Police Service officer, as administrative control vests with the Home Ministry of Kerala.Departments such as administration, the District Crime Records Bureau, District Crime Branch, District Special Branch and Narcotic Cell are each headed by an Assistant commissioner.N. Gopalakrishnan IPS T.J Jose IPS Gopesh Agrawal IPS Sam Christy Daniel KPS Debesh Kumar Behera IPS V. Suresh Kumar IPS P. Prakash IPS S. Satheesh Bino IPS Ajeetha Begum IPS A. Sreenivas IPS Arul B. Krishna IPS P. K. Madhu IPS Merin Joseph IPS P. K. Madhu IPS T. Narayanan IPS Merin Joseph IPS Vivek Kumar IPS Chaitra Teresa John IPS Kiran Narayanan IPS
Developments
- A dedicated complex at Asramam for the district police dog squad was inaugurated by Harshita Attaluri, the then Superintendent of Police on 2 March 2010. The facility cost and can accommodate four dogs. The dog squad currently consists of three dogs. On 3 November 2016, a 10-member team of anti-goonda squad has been formed in Kollam city police. The team will supposedly be headed by a sub inspector.
- On 2 February 2021, Kerala's first district forensic science laboratory started functioning at Chathannoor in Kollam district. Physics, Biology and Chemistry, divisions started initially and a cyber forensic division will also be started in the lab shortly.