tnpolice.gov.in}}| footnotes = }}File:Chennai City Mounted Police.jpg|thumb|right|Chennai City Mounted Police officers patrolling in their khaki colored uniform during a cricket cricketThe Greater Chennai Police, a division of the Tamil Nadu Police, is the law enforcement agency for the city of Chennai in India and the surrounding area. The city police force is headed by a Commissioner of Police and the administrative control vests with the Tamil Nadu Home Department.WEB,weblink Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Tamil Nadu Government, 17 December 2013, There are four sub-divisions of the Greater Chennai Police, and 104 police stations. The city's traffic is managed by the Greater Chennai Traffic Police. Chennai is the first city in India to introduce e-Beat system used to measure the daily routine and performance of the police personnel.NEWS, Vivek, Narayanan, 22 August 2008, E-beat project to monitor cops a dud,weblink weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20121105170008weblink">weblink dead, 5 November 2012, The Times of India, 17 December 2013, NEWS, P. Oppili, 9 July 2005, ISO team inspects Chennai police stations,weblink weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20070313091417weblink">weblink dead, 13 March 2007, The Hindu, 17 December 2013,

History

In 1659, when Chennai (then called Madras) was just a group of fishing villages. Pedda Naik formed a group of peons to guard the town. By 1780 the post of Superintendent of Police was created to manage the markets. After the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the British Raj in India formed the modern Madras Police as part of its reforms.JOURNAL, Klein, Ira, July 2000, Materialism, Mutiny and Modernization in British India, Modern Asian Studies, Cambridge University Press, 545â€“580, 313141, 34, The Chennai City Traffic Police is a branch of the Greater Chennai Police, with the mission of regulating traffic in the city of Chennai. It was established in 1929 when the Police department was split into 3, namely, Law & Order, Crime and Traffic. As of 2011, the government merged Chennai Suburban Police with Chennai city police to form The Greater Chennai Police Commissionerate.WEB, Tamil Nadu Police History,weblink Tamil Nadu Police, 18 December 2013, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20080326170933weblink">weblink 26 March 2008,

Organisation

Hierarchy

Officers

Commissioner of Police (CP)(DGP/ADGP Rank)
Additional Commissioner of Police (Addl.CP)(IG Rank)
Joint Commissioner of Police (Jt.CP)(DIG Rank)
Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) (SP Rank)
Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (ADC)(ADSP Rank)
Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP)(ASP/DSP Rank)

Subordinates

Inspector of Police (Insp.)
Sub-Inspector of Police (SI)
Special Sub-Inspector of Police (SSI)
Assistant Sub Inspector of Police (ASI)
Head Constable (HC)
Police Constable Grade I (SC)
Police Constable (PC)

Achievements

File:Police Women, Chennai, India.jpg|thumb|250px|Police women in Chennai ChennaiFile:Gcp patrol car.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Chennai Police Hyundai Accent Hyundai Accent(File:Chennai City Police's Yellow Brigade. Cropped for better representation.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Chennai City Police's Yellow Brigade)Additional Yellow Brigades & Blue Brigades motorcycles and patrol vehicles have been introduced in Greater Chennai. Each Yellow Brigade covers a distance of 2 km2 approximately during daytime from 6 am to 9 pm. The Blue Brigade covers the same distance of 2 km2 during nighttime from 11 pm to 6.30 am. The patrol vehicles covers an approximate distance of 3.2 km2 each day. For patrol duty, 40 Jeeps have been provided equipped with police sirens, revolving lights, public address system, fire extinguisher, top search light, police display light and wireless communication system. The response time to control room calls has been brought down to 3â€“4 minutes. The Tamil Nadu Police claims that the crime rate in the Greater Chennai City has come down considerably after these initiatives.The police force include 100 Hyundai Accent patrol cars that was donated by the Hyundai Motor Company, whose factory is located in Sriperumbudur, on the outskirts of the city. The cars are fitted with digital cameras, wireless communication devices and loudspeakers,NEWS, Rohini, Mohan, Hyundai patrol cars for Chennai police,weblink weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20081202122654weblink">weblink dead, 2 December 2008, 18 December 2013, IBNLive.com, 25 October 2006, making this the only police force in the country to use sedan patrol cars. Patrol cars have been provided to Greater Chennai Police. Hyundai donated Accent cars to Chennai Police, of which 75 were given to Law & Order, 21 to traffic department. The remaining 4 cars were incorporated into the Chief Minister's convoy.

Ranks of law enforcement in Chennai Police

The ranks, posts and designations of all police officers vary from state to state as law and order is a state matter. But, generally the following pattern is observed:WEB,weblink Police Ranks, Maharashtra Police,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20170815030350weblink">weblink 15 August 2017, dead, 10 November 2004, WEB,weblink Governance of andhra police, Kerala Police, 14 August 2017, WEB,weblink Police Ranks and Badges, Odisha Police, 15 August 2017,

Gazetted Officers

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Non-gazetted officers

List of police stations

Following are the new list of delimitation police stations within the jurisdiction of Chennai Metropolitan Police.WEB,weblink LIST OF POLICE STATIONS IN CHENNAI, 27 January 2016, {| class="wikitable sortable"!Sn||Station code||Station name

|Abhiramapuram

|Adambakkam

Adyar (Chennai)>Adyar

|Anna Square

Ashok Nagar, Chennai>Ashok Nagar

|Ayanavaram

|Basin Bridge

|Chennai Airport