Telangana Police
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Telangana State Police Department | |
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Common name | Telangana State Police |
Abbreviation | TSP |
Motto | Duty, Honour, Compassion |
Agency overview | |
Formed | 2 June 2014Hyderabad | ,
Preceding agency | |
Employees | 50,000 |
Annual budget | ₹5,000 crore (US$630 million) (2019-20 est.) [1] |
Jurisdictional structure | |
Operations jurisdiction | Telangana, India |
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Telangana Police jurisdictional area | |
Size | 114,840 square kilometres (44,340 sq mi) |
Population | 35,193,978 |
Legal jurisdiction | Telangana state |
Governing body | Government of Telangana |
General nature | |
Operational structure | |
Overviewed by | Government of Telangana |
Headquarters | Saifabad, Hyderabad, Telangana -500004 |
Elected officer responsible | |
Agency executive | |
Parent agency | Home Department, Government of Telangana |
Child agencies | |
Law enforcements | State Police Head Quarters of Telangana. |
Facilities | |
Police Stations | 709 |
Cars | Mahindra Bolero 44,[3] Toyota Innova Crysta ~20, Tata Sumo, Maruti Ertiga |
Motorcycles | Hero Glamour 50[4] |
Jeeps | Rakshak Jeeps ~50 |
Animals | Dogs |
Notables | |
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The Telangana State Police Department is the law enforcement agency for the state of Telangana in India. It has jurisdiction concurrent with the 33 revenue districts of the state. The police force was created from the remnants of the Andhra Pradesh Police after Telangana state was formed. It is headed by the Director general of police, M. Mahender Reddy, and headquartered in Hyderabad, Telangana.
Structure and organization
Telangana State Police Recruitment Board
The Telangana State Level Police Recruitment Board (TSLPRB) is responsible for recruitment. TSLPRB is releasing recruitment notification time to time and conducting a written examination, Physical test, Medical test, and interviews for selecting best aspirants for their department and the department has about 50,000 active personnel in the State[5]
Districts
Each police district is either coterminous with the revenue district, or is located within a number of revenue districts. It is headed by a District Superintendent of Police (or simply called Superintendent of Police). Each district comprises two or more Sub-Divisions, several Circles and police stations.
Sub-divisions
Each Sub-division is headed by one police officer of the rank Deputy Superintendent of Police (Officers of Telangana Police Service are directly recruited officers or promoted from lower ranks) or an additional Superintendent of Police (Officers of Indian Police Service). The officer who heads a Sub-Division is known as S.D.P.O. resp. Sub Divisional Police Officer.
Circles
A Circle comprises several police stations. An inspector of police who heads a police circle is the Circle Inspector of Police or CI.
Stations
A police station is headed by an inspector (an upper subordinate rank). A police station is the basic unit of policing, responsible for prevention and detection of crime, maintenance of public order, enforcing law in general as well as for performing protection duties and making security arrangements for the constitutional authorities, government functionaries, representatives of the public in different legislative bodies and local self governments, public figures etc.
Commissionerate
A Police Commissionerate is a law enforcement body especially in the urban parts of the state. The commissionerate is headed by a Commissioner of Police. Hyderabad City Police, Cyberabad Metropolitan Police and Warangal Police Commissionerate are the local law enforcement agencies for the cities of Hyderabad and Warangal respectively.
Government of Telangana has issued ordinance for new commissionerates at Rachakonda commissionerate, Karimnagar, Khammam, Nizamabad, Ramagundam, and Siddipet.
Ranks
The Director General of Police functions from Police Directorate, located in the DGP headquarters in Hyderabad. He is assisted by a team of senior officers from the ranks of additional DG and IG of police to Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG - a post equivalent in rank and status to the superintendent of police).
Police ranks
The Telangana State Police designates the following ranks:
Officers
- Director General of Police (DGP)
- Additional Director General of Police (ADGP)
- Inspector General of Police (IGP)
- Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG)
- Commissioner of Police (CP)
- Superintendent of police(SP)
- Assistant Superintendent of police (ASP)
- Additional Commissioner of Police (ACP)
- Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP)
- Deputy Superintendent Of Police (DSP)
Sub-ordinates
- Circle-Inspector of Police (CI)
- Sub-Inspector of Police (SI)
- Assistant Sub-Inspector of Police (ASI)
- Head Police Constable (HC)
- Police Constable (PC)
- Home Guard (HG)
Insignia of Telangana Police (State Police)
- Gazetted Officers
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Rank | Director General of Police | Additional Director General of Police[note 1] | Inspector General of Police | Deputy Inspector General of Police | Assistant Inspector General of Police / Senior Superintendent of Police | Superintendent of Police | Additional superintendent of police | Deputy superintendent of police | Assistant Superintendent of Police (Probationary Rank: 2 years of service) | Assistant Superintendent of Police (Probationary Rank: 1 year of service) | |||||||||||||||||
Abbreviation | DGP | ADGP | IGP | DIG | AIG/SSP | SP | Addl. SP | DSP | ASP | ASP | |||||||||||||||||
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- Non-gazetted officers
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Rank | Inspector | Assistant inspector[note 2] | Sub-inspector | Assistant sub-inspector | Head constable Senior Civil Police Officer (Kerala)[note 3][note 4] |
Police Naik | Constable | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Abbreviation | INS/CI | API | SI | ASI | HC/SCPO | SC | PC/CPO | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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See also
- Telangana State Police Academy
- Hyderabad City Police
- Cyberabad Metropolitan Police
- Rachakonda Police Commissionerate
- Ramagundam Police Commissionerate
- Warangal Police Commissionerate
- Nizamabad Police Commissionerate
- Karimnagar Police Commissionerate
- Khammam Police Commissionerate
- SHE Teams
Notes
- ^ Rank insignia of DGP is similar to additional DGP.
- ^ This rank only exists in the Maharashtra Police.
- ^ Shoulder insignia rank only used in the Maharashtra Police.
- ^ The senior civil police officer rank only exist in Kerala Police
- ^ The Civil Police Officer rank only exist in Kerala Police, this rank is equivalent to police constable of other state police forces.
References
- ^ "Telangana Budget Analysis 2019-20" (PDF). prsindia.org. 2019.
- ^ IPS M.Mahender Reddy appointed as DGP of Telangana[dead link]
- ^ "Photos of Police Vehicles". Nizamabad PoliceNizamabad.nic.in. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
- ^ "Blue Colts Cops Get New Bikes". Gonizamabad.com. 22 April 2015. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
- ^ "Telangana Police Recruitment 2017".
- ^ "Police Ranks" (PDF). Maharashtra Police. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
- ^ "Governance of Kerala Police". Kerala Police. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
- ^ "Police Ranks and Badges". Odisha Police. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
- ^ "Police Ranks" (PDF). Maharashtra Police. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
- ^ "Governance of Kerala Police". Kerala Police. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
- ^ "Police Ranks and Badges". Odisha Police. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
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