Bengaluru City Police
The Bengaluru City Police jurisdiction is divided into seven zones — East, West, North, South, Central, South-East and North-East.Each zone is further divided into three sub-divisions, each headed by an Assistant Commissioner of Police.Other units within the BCP include Traffic Police, City Armed Reserve (CAR), City Special Branch (CSB), City Crime Branch (CCB) and City Crime Records Bureau (CCRB).The Bengaluru City Police's mobile patrol consists of mobile vehicular patrols, including Suzuki Ertiga and Toyota Innova cars called Hoysala (named after the empire that ruled over most of Karnataka in medieval India) and bike patrols called cheetah, which consists of TVS Apache, Bajaj Pulsar and Hero Glamour Red bikes.[3][4] The Hindu reported in July 2024 that a new mobile phone app allows callers to track the progress of the Hoysala patrol vehicle assigned to deal with the incident.