Lalbazar is a neighbourhood in Central Kolkata, earlier known as Calcutta, in the Indian state of West Bengal.

The headquarters of the Kolkata Police is located here (18, Lalbazar Street) and is popularly known by the same name.

[1] The modern police office was the residence of John Palmer, one of the merchant princes of Kolkata.

There was a gibbet at the crossing of Lalbazar and Chitpore Road (now Rabindra Sarani).

[2] Lalbazar is surrounded by Old Court House Street on the west, Bentinck Street/Rabindra Sarani on the east, India Exchange Place Road on the north and R.N.