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The Chennai city police commissionerate building is a 9-storied building on Poonamallee High Road at Vepery, Chennai. It houses the office of the commissioner of Chennai city police. ==History== The commissionerate was originally headquartered in Vepery until 1842, when it moved, along with its various departments, to a historic building on Pantheon Road, Egmore, which remained the administrative centre of the city police for over 170 years, until 2013. The property, a bungalow in a paddy field, was bought by Arunagiri Mudaliar for 36,000. On 1 May 1842, the city police moved into the bungalow for a monthly rent of Rs. 165. The two-storied building is a classic colonial bungalow with Doric columns and Madras terrace. In 1856, when Lt. Col. J.C. Boulderson of 35 regiment of Native infantry took charge as the first police commissioner of Chennai, the land and bungalow were purchased by the police department for 21,000. For a brief period from 1882, the office was said to have moved to a building on Police Commissioner Office Road and then back to the bungalow. However, the historic records remain obscure. The building on Police Commissioner Office Road, which currently houses the police photographer’s department, has a circular plaque with the inscription "Colonel W.S. Drever CSI Commissioner of Police, R.F. Chisholm, architect" and the year 1882 inscribed on it. It is still unclear to historians as to why and when the office moved from Pantheon Road to Police Commissioner Office Road and then back.〔 The new commissionerate was opened by the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa on 18 October 2013. After the departments are completed shifted to the new building, the commissioner office in Egmore is expected to be converted into a police museum.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chennai Police Commissionerate」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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