[4][5] The necessity for imparting formal training to policemen was first felt in Bengal in 1893, when an experimental course of instruction limited to a period of 12 months was tried at Mill Barrack in Dhaka.

Major H. Chamney who was selected to be the first principal of the reorganized Bengal Police Training College[7] was an army officer, serving at Ghazipur (India) at that time.

In those days, there was a regular passenger steamer service between Ghazipur and Calcutta run by Indian Navigation and Railway Company.

Legends say that while traveling to Calcutta by this river route, Major Chamney once stopped at Charghat-which was then a steamer station-and was fascinated by the beauty of Sardah with a large open field and massive buildings of Dutch and English indigo planters.

The entire property, comprising an area of 242.66 acres of land with all its installations, was then purchased by the Government from Midnapur Zamindari Estate at an amount of only Tk.