EVOLUTION OF POLICE SYSTEM

🛑 EVOLUTION OF POLICE SYSTEM

         

 

❇️ 1770 : Institution of Faujdars and amils abolished (Faujdars restored by Warren Hastings in 1774) 

 

❇️ 1775 : Faujdar thanas in major towns of large districts 

 

❇️ 1791 : Cornwallis  

▪️ Relieved zamindars of their police duty  

▪️ System of Daroga and SP 

 

❇️ 1808 : Mayo  

▪️ SP for each division helped by spies (goyendas) 

 

❇️ 1814 : Order of Court of Directors - Daroga and subordinates abolished except in Bengal 

 

❇️ 1828-35 : GG Bentinck :  

▪️Abolished office of SP  

▪️Collector/magistrate head of police  

▪️Commissioner in each division to act as SP 

 

❇️ 1860 : Police Commission (led to Indian Police Act,1861)  

▪️System of civil constabulary  

▪️IG as head in Province, DIG as head in range, SP as head in district 

 

❇️1902 : Police Commission (Andrew Frazer)  

▪️Establish CID in the provinces  

▪️Central Intelligence Bureau at the centre  

❇️1875 : Army Commission - Martial race and non martial race developed under CIC Lord Roberts (1887-92)  

❇️1926 : Indian Sandhurst Committee ( Indian Army) : Visualising a 50% Indianised officer cadre for 1952