Soumen Mitra (born 16 December 1961) is an Indian police Service officer of the 1988 batch[2] and was allotted the West Bengal cadre[3].

After his probationary period , Mitra served as ASP (Operations) Darjeeling, SDPO Barrackpore with additional charge as ADC to the Governor of West Bengal, Addl.

AS DC DD he led investigations into the 2002 attack on the American Culture Centre by terrorists and in the 2001 Kolkata Stock Exchange scam.

He is credited to have started the Chandradeep Mela, an annual social event in Hariharpara, an area known for its criminal activities and communal violence, which helped stabilize the atmosphere.

In August 2021, Mitra received the Chief Minister’s Police Medal[8] for Outstanding Service and also the Anirudh Bhargava INTACH Environment Award[9].

In 2004, Mitra helped rescue and restore a dilapidated building on Ripon Street which was occupied by Ramendra Narayan Roy (popularly known as the Sanyasi Raja) when he was fighting his legal battles in the Bhawal case[14].

In 2015, he helped restore the Police Training School which had previously served as one of India's first mental asylum and was considered iconic due to its unique architecture style that was pioneered by Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century.

Mitra's M Phil dissertation has been published as a book entitled In Search of an Identity: The History of Football in Colonial Calcutta, 1880–1950.