Archive · 29 Sep 2026
Karnataka Forms Three Panels to Modernize Police Services
The Karnataka government has formed three expert committees to review police services, modernization, and recruitment.
The first panel will examine public-facing services, complaints, FIRs, emergency responses, infrastructure, staffing, and training.
The second panel will review technology, artificial intelligence, cyber capabilities, forensic laboratories, communications, vehicles, and 112 services.
The third panel will assess police strength, cadre structure, recruitment rules, promotions, reservations, and career progression.
Each committee has two months to submit recommendations and is headed by a retired director general of police.
- Who
- The Karnataka government, led in this announcement by Home Minister Priyank Kharge, has appointed three committees headed by retired DGPs R K Dutta, M N Reddy, and Kamal Pant.
- What
- Three expert committees will review police services, department modernization, and police cadre and recruitment structures.
- When
- The announcement was made on Monday; the committees have two months to submit their reports.
- Where
- Karnataka, India.
- Why
- To make police services more effective, prompt, transparent, citizen-friendly, technologically capable, and accountable.
- Number of committees
- Three
- Committee tenure
- Two months
- Public services review
- FIR registration, complaint handling, emergency services, lost-property reports, cybercrime complaints, permissions, and certificates
- Modernization areas
- Emergency response, 112 services, forensic laboratories, artificial intelligence, computerisation, communications, training, and equipment
- Cadre review areas
- Sanctioned strength, post classification, recruitment, eligibility, training, promotions, reservations, and career progression
- Public accountability measure
- The first committee will examine creating a Citizen Charter with service standards and timelines
- Committee chairs
- Retired DGPs R K Dutta, M N Reddy, and Kamal Pant