High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Kolkata Police has the task of policing the metropolitan area of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), India, as defined under the Calcutta Police Act, 1866 and the Calcutta Suburban Police Act,1866. The history of the present structure of policing in Kolkata goes back to colonial times, when the city was known as "Calcutta," and was a fledging settlement of the English East India Company. Calcutta was founded by an Englishman, Job Charnock, who was then a key functionary of the Company, had anchored his boat Maddapollam at a village called Sutanuti on the eastern banks of the Hooghly, in 1690. This formed the nucleus of a fortified military settlement which in 1696 along with the villages of Gobindapur and Kalikata, became a prime location for the East India Company's operations in Bengal