The Kolkata Police Force is one of the two police forces of the Indian state of West Bengal. (The other is the West Bengal Police, which has a separate jurisdiction.)
Kolkata Police has the task of policing the metropolitan area of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), India, as defined under the Calcutta Police Act, 1866 and the Calcutta Suburban Police Act,1866.
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