Charles Tegart
Sir Charles Augustus Tegart KCIE MVO KPM JP (5 October 1881 – 6 April 1946) was an Anglo-Irish police officer who served extensively in British India and Palestine.[citation needed] Prior to his roles in India, he served as chief assistant to Ormonde Winter, the head of British Intelligence operations in Ireland during the Irish War of Independence.[citation needed] He was the first officer of the Indian Imperial Police (IMP) in the council and on his report its Special Branch was created.[citation needed] Charles Tegart tried to suppress the nationalists of India such as Jatindranath Mukherjee at Balasore in Orissa (now Odisha), on 9 September 1915.[2] In due course, he advised the construction of 77 reinforced concrete police stations and posts which could be defended against the attack, and of a frontier fence along the northern border of Palestine to control the movement of insurgents, goods, and weapons.