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Ranks of Police Officers in West Bengal

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WEST BENGAL POLICE DIRECTORATE
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HOWRAH – 711 102 

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Appendix I

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[Regulation 8.]

Table showing all ranks of police officers in order of precedence.

Serial No.

Rank.

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(i)

Inspector-General

(ii)

Deputy Inspector-General

(iii)

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Superintendent.

(iv)

Officiating Superintendent.

(v)

Assistant Superintendent.

(vi)

Probationary Assistant Superintendent.

(vii)

Officiating Deputy Superintendent.

(viii)

Probationary Deputy Superintendent.

(ix)

Officiating Deputy Superintendent.

(x)

Honorary Deputy Superintendent.

(xi)

Inspector.


(xii)

{

Sergeant.
Sub-Inspector.

(xiii) { Assistant Sub-Inspector.
Havildar-Major.Head constable.
Naik.

(xiv)

Constable.

(i) The table in Part XXVI of the Bengal Civil List shows the relative position of officers of and above the rank of Superintendent in the Warrant of Precedence for India.

(ii) Command and precedence amongst, police officers shall be by ranks. When two police officers are of the same rank, the officer whose name stands first on the provincial, range or district gradation list shall take command or precedence, as the case may be.

(iii) As separate gradation lists are maintained for ranks bracketted together under the same serial number the officers in those ranks will take precedence amongst themselves according to the number of years of service counting for increment in their respective scales of pay. If officers of different ranks under the same serial number count equal periods of service from the same day, they will take precedence amongst themselves according to the position of their respective ranks in the above table.

(iv) Officers officiating in any rank or acting in any rank without extra remuneration will take precedence according to the serial number of that rank but below the permanent incumbents of the rank, including probationers.

Source: Bengal Police Regulation


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