FILE G · GLOSSARY · Magisterial & law-and-order
SP
Also: Superintendent of Police
MEANING
The district police chief — the Collector's twin in the district's law-and-order pairing.
In commissionerate cities the Commissioner of Police holds the equivalent charge and also exercises executive-magistrate powers, which shrinks the DM's role there — a structural fact worth knowing before quoting BNSS sections in a city.