{"id":6414,"date":"2019-09-06T11:52:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T06:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=6414"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:11:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:41:02","slug":"kolkata-polices-special-task-force-to-be-made-into-a-separate-directorate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/kolkata-polices-special-task-force-to-be-made-into-a-separate-directorate\/","title":{"rendered":"Kolkata Police\u2019s Special Task Force to be made into a separate directorate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Special Task Force (STF) of the Kolkata Police, headquartered at Lalbazar, will be separated from the city police and made into a separate directorate.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the STF \u2013 which functions to nab functionaries in terror groups, its funding and various ways of operating \u2013 tend to spread much beyond the precincts of the city. Thus, a decision was made to form a separate directorate of the STF which would function throughout the state. It will be known as STF, West Bengal.<\/p>\n<p>An inspector-general rank officer will head the SFT with two officers in the rank of deputy inspector general (DIG) and four SPs (superintendent of police).<\/p>\n<p>The order for the new STF will be issued shortly. The STF directorate\u2019s office will be on Ripon Street, Kolkata.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new unit will be known as STF, West Bengal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":6415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-bengal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6414"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=6414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}