The process for policing in Mughal India was coordinated based ashore residency. Zamindars were liable for catching disturbers of the public harmony and performing other policing obligations. At the level of the town, these capabilities were performed by the town headmen. In huge towns, organization of the police was shared with functionaries called kotwals who released the joined obligations of policing, organization and income assortment. Watch officials in type of town guards or patels in towns and peons, horse patrolmen and such other like men in the towns were available. Rough coordinated wrongdoing was generally managed by the military.

The British organization alleviated the zamindars of their obligation regarding police administration and presented justices with daroghas and other subordinate officials for police purposes. In Madras, the arrangement of daroghas was nullified by Madras Regulation XI of 1816 and the foundation of the tehsildars was utilized without differentiation in income and police obligations. A comparative framework was set up in Bombay by Bombay Regulation XII of 1827. In Bengal, the arrangement of daroghas was not nullified because of the shortfall of the subordinate income foundation yet their powers were abridged in 1811 by removing a portion of their powers of comprehension.

In Bengal extraordinary control was presented in 1808 by the arrangement of a Superintendent or Inspector General for the divisions of Calcutta, Dacca and Murshidabad. In 1810, the framework was stretched out to the divisions of Patna, Bareilly and Benares. In any case, with the arrangement of Divisional Commissioners, the workplace of the Superintendent was canceled.

The following significant change in the association of police occurred in Sindh where Sir Charles Napier, drawing motivation from the Irish constabulary, fostered a different and independent police association for the region. The Sindh Model was placed into impact in Bombay and Madras in 1853 and 1859, separately.

In Punjab, the Police were likewise coordinated on the example of Sindh however with two primary branches, the Military Preventive Police and the Civil Detective Police. As this plan was not viewed as palatable, the Government of India encouraged the Government of Punjab in 1860 to investigate the process for policing predominant in the Province around then. Nonetheless, as the issue was of general significance, the Central Government delegated a commission to enquire into entire inquiry of policing in British India. The Police Commission of 1860 suggested the cancelation of the Military Arm of the Police, the arrangement of an Inspector General of Police in the Province and the position of police in a locale under the District Superintendent. The Commission suggested that main the District Magistrate ought to practice any police capabilities. In light of the suggestions of the Commission, the Government of India presented a bill which was passed into regulation as Act V of 1861. The Police Act of 1861 was embraced by every one of the territories with the exception of Bombay where a District Police Act was taken on in 1890. The Bombay District Police Act kept on excess in force in Sindh till the foundation of the one unit.

The authoritative plan that followed the Act gets by right up 'til now. Police turned into a subject to be directed by the regions that were isolated into police purviews relating with the locale and the divisions. The police were made solely answerable for counteraction and identification of wrongdoing. In the upkeep of public request they were dependable to the District Magistrate.

The Punjab Police Rules of 1934 recorded the police rehearses as they remained around then and presented a few new measures for further developing organization and functional viability of police. The substance of the Rules uncovers that the Punjab Police had developed into a completely proficient Police association by 1934 and had extensive information on the wrongdoing and hoodlums in the territory. It had created viable techniques and practices for managing different sorts of crime. The managerial and disciplinary capabilities were additionally explained. The Rules have filled in as the model for comparable arrangements of rules in different territories of Pakistan and are still in force today.

The Punjab Police had a critical impact in taking care of the outcast emergency of 1947-48. It went on as a different association till 1955 when it was converged with the police of different regions to make the West Pakistan Police. There were a few endeavors to survey and change police association and execution during the 1950s and 60s which, be that as it may, couldn't be carried out.

The legitimate system of the police went through a significant change as a result of Devolution of Power Plan. The devolution of force plan required the devolution of the power of the commonplace government to the locale and the presentation of public responsibility of the police.

In accordance with the devolution of force plan the workplace of the District Magistrate was canceled in 2001 and an arrangement of Public Safety Commissions was presented. These progressions were integrated into another Police Law which was proclaimed in 2002. Aside from Public Safety Commissions, the Police Order 2002 likewise accommodated an expert Police Complaints Authority, expanded powers for the Inspector General of Police and partition of the watch and ward and the Investigation elements of the Police.

The topic of policing has been the subject of much discussion when freedom and various commissions, advisory groups were framed by different state run administrations for the reason. A portion of the more significant commissions and boards are as per the following:

Select Committee of 1832

Police Commission of 1860

Police Commission of 1902

Lumsden Committee of 1926

Police Commission of 1961 under Justice J.B.Constantine

Pakistan Police Commission of 1969 under Major General A.O.Mitha

Police headquarters Inquiry Committee of 1976 under M.A.K Chaudhry

Police Reforms Committee of 1976 under Rafi Raza

Police Committee of 1976 under Aslam Hayat

Police Reforms Implementation Committee of 1990 under M.A.K Chaudhry

Punjab Government Committee of 2001 under Shahzad Hassan Pervaiz

Central Group on Police Reforms of 2000