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{{Infobox law enforcement agency<br />
| agencyname = Chandigarh Police<br />
| logo = Chandigarh_Police_Logo.png<br />
| motto = ''We care for you''<br />
| budget = {{INRConvert|508.06|c|1}} <small>(2020-21)</small><ref>{{cite web |title=Expenditure Budget - Ministry of Home Affairs - Chandigarh |url=https://www.indiabudget.gov.in/doc/eb/dg50.pdf |website=Expenditure Budget {{!}} Union Budget of India |publisher=Ministry of Finance |accessdate=6 June 2020}}</ref><br />
| country = India<br />
| legaljuris = [[Chandigarh]]<br />
| police = Yes<br />
| local = Yes<br />
| headquarters = Chandigarh Police Headquarters, Sector 9-D, Chandigarh<br />
| employees = 6000<br />
| parentagency = [[Home Department, Chandigarh Administration]]<br />
| stations = 11<br />
| website = {{URL|http://chandigarhpolice.nic.in/}}<br />
| footnotes = <br />
}}<br />
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The '''Chandigarh Police''' is the [[law enforcement agency]] for the [[Union Territory]] of [[Chandigarh]] in India. Chandigarh Police has its headquarters at sector 9 D, Chandigarh. The head of the state police is the Home Secretary of Chandigarh. The current Home Secretary of Chandigarh is Sh. Arun Kumar Gupta IAS, 1992 Haryana Cadre.Chandigarh has the highest police density as compared to all other states and Union Territories across India.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://chandigarhmetro.com/chandigarh-highest-police-density-in-india/|title=Chandigarh Police has highest police density in India|author=Ajay Deep|website=Chandigarhmetro.com |access-date=4 August 2017}}</ref> {{As of|2015}}, there are 5295.6 policemen per 100&nbsp;km² area in Chandigarh.<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|+ List of former IGPs of Chandigarh<br />
!Sr. No<br />
!Name<br />
!Tenure<br />
|-<br />
|1<br />
|B.N. Mehra, IPS<br />
|28 May 1979 to 31 March 1983<br />
|-<br />
|2<br />
|N.K. Singhal, IPS<br />
|9 May 1983 to 23 May 1985<br />
|-<br />
|3<br />
|R.K. Ohri, IPS<br />
|23 May 1985 to 16 January 1987<br />
|-<br />
|4<br />
|V.N, Singh, IPS<br />
|16 January 1987 to 6 March 1989<br />
|-<br />
|5<br />
|G.S. Sandhu, IPS<br />
|6 March 1989 to 30 July 1990<br />
|-<br />
|6<br />
|R.S. Gupta, IPS<br />
|30 July 1990 to 29 September 1993<br />
|-<br />
|7<br />
|Y.S. Dadwal, IPS<br />
|29 September 1993 to 26 December 1995<br />
|-<br />
|8<br />
|R.P. Singh, IPS<br />
|27 December 1995 to 5 April 1999<br />
|-<br />
|9<br />
|Dr Kiran Bedi, IPS<br />
|5 April 1999 to 18 May 1999<br />
|-<br />
|10<br />
|S.K. Singh, IPS<br />
|1 June 1999 to 30 June 2000<br />
|-<br />
|11<br />
|B.S. Bassi, IPS<br />
|1 July 2000 to 9 December 2002<br />
|-<br />
|12<br />
|Rajesh Kumar, IPS<br />
|9 December 2002 to 27 April 2005<br />
|-<br />
|13<br />
|Satish Chandra, IPS<br />
|27 April 2005 to 9 October 2006<br />
|-<br />
|14<br />
|S.K Jain, IPS<br />
|9 October 2006 to 14 September 2009<br />
|-<br />
|15<br />
|P.K Srivastava, IPS<br />
|5 December 2010 to 29 August 2012<br />
|-<br />
|16<br />
|R.P Upadhyaya, IPS<br />
|30 January 2013 to 8 March 2016<br />
|-<br />
|17<br />
|T.S. Luthra, IPS<br />
|8 March 2016 to 26 June 2018<br />
|-<br />
|18<br />
|Sanjay Beniwal, IPS<br />
|27 June 2018 to till date<br />
|}<br />
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==Organizational structure==<br />
Chandigarh Police comes under direct control of Department of Home Affairs, [[Chandigarh administration]]. The department is headed by the [[Home Secretary of Chandigarh]].<br />
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{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="text-align:center"<br />
!Name!!class="unsortable"|Current Posting<br />
|-<br />
|align=left|[[Sanjay Beniwal]], IPS<br />
|align=left|Director General of Police<br />
|-<br />
|align=left|[[Karandeep Nain]], IPS<br />
|align=left|DIG Chandigarh<br />
|-<br />
|align=left|(Mr) Kuldeep Singh Chahal, IPS<br />
|align=left|[[SSP Chandigarh]]<br />
|-<br />
|align=left|[[Ravi Kumar Singh]], IPS<br />
|align=left|SP Operation<br />
|-<br />
|align=left|[[Eish Singhal]], IPS<br />
|align=left|SP Headquarters<br />
|-<br />
|align=left|[[Shashank Anand]], IPS<br />
|align=left|SSP Security & Traffic <br />
|-<br />
|align=left|[[Roshan Lal]], CPS<br />
|align=left|Commandant - IRB Chandigarh<br />
|}<br />
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<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chandigarhpolice.nic.in/oscd.html|title=Chandigarh Police - we care for you|website=Chandigarhpolice.nic.in|accessdate=3 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170802123714/http://www.chandigarhpolice.nic.in/oscd.html|archive-date=2 August 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110513053407/http://www.chandigarhpolice.nic.in/ Chandigarh Police official page]<br />
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