Telangana Police

Telangana State Police తెలంగాణ పోలీస్ تلنگانہ پولیس
Common name	Telangana State Police
Abbreviation	TSP
Seal of Telangana Police
Badge of the Telangana State Police
Motto	Duty, Honour, Compassion
Agency overview
Formed	June 2nd 2014
Legal personality	Governmental: Government agency
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction*	State of Telangana, IN

Telangana Police jurisdictional area
Size	114,840 km2
Legal jurisdiction	State of Telangana
General nature	Law enforcement Local civilian police
Operational structure
Overviewed by	Government of Telangana
Headquarters	Office of the Director General of Police, Saifabad, Hyderabad, Telangana -500004
Elected officer responsible	Naini Narasimha Reddy
Agency executive	Anurag Sharma, IPS^[1], Director General of Police
Parent agency	Home Department, Government of Telangana
Law enforcements	State Police Head Quarters of Telangana .
Footnotes
* Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction.

The Telangana State Police (Telugu: తెలంగాణ పోలీస్, Urdu: تلنگانہ پولیس), is the law enforcement agency for the state of Telangana in India. The Telangana State Police has jurisdiction concurrent with the ten revenue districts of the State which is headed by an officer designated as the Director General of Police who reports to the State Government through the Home (Police) Department. The police force was created from the basis of the Andhra Pradesh, when the Telangana state was formed.

Structure and Organization

Police ranks

The Telangana Police designates the following ranks :

Director General of Police (D.G.P.)
Additional Director General of Police (Add. D.G.P.)
Inspector General of Police (I.G.)
Deputy Inspector General of Police (D.I.G.)
Commissioner of Police (C.P)
Additional Commissioner of Police(A.C.P)
Deputy Commissioner of Police(D.C.P)
Superintendent of Police (S.P.)
Additional Superintendent of Police (A.S.P.)
Deputy Superintendent of Police (D.S.P.)
Police Inspector (C.I.)
Police Sub Inspector (S.I.)
Assistant Police Sub Inspector (A.S.I.)
Police Head Constable (H.C.)
Police Constable (P.C.)

Districts

Each Police District is either coterminous with the Revenue district, 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.
1. Adilabad
2. Karimnagar
3. Warangal
4. Nizamabad
5. Khammam
6. Nalgonda
7. Mahaboobnagar
8. Medak
9. Rangareddy
10.Hyderabad

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

Telangana Police SUV

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 is the local law enforcement agency for the city of Hyderabad.

And recently Government of Telangana has proposed commissionerate for Warangal Urban, Karimnagar and Khammam.

Ranks

The Director General 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 & IG of Police to Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG - a post equivalent in rank and status to the Superintendent of Police)

Insignia of Telangana Police (State Police)

**Indian State Police Gazetted Officer Rank Insignia**
Insignia
Rank	Deputy Commissioner of Police or Senior Superintendent of Police	Deputy Commissioner of Police or Superintendent of Police	Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police or Additional Superintendent of Police	Assistant Commissioner of Police or Deputy Superintendent of Police
Abbreviation	DCP or SSP	DCP or SP	ADL.DCP or ASP	ACP or DSP

Note: Gazetted officers belonging to Indian State Police Service(s) lie between ranks ACP/DSP and DCP/SSP. To gain promotion to ADL.CP/DIG rank, officers undergo training and hence are awarded IPS.

**Indian State Police Non-Gazetted Officer Rank Insignia**
Insignia							No Insignia¹
Rank	Inspector of Police	Assistant Inspector of Police²	Sub-Inspector of Police	Assistant Sub-Inspector of Police	Police Head Constable³	Senior Police Constable³	Police Constable
Abbreviation	INS	API	SI	ASI	HPC	SPC	PC

¹ Police Constable has no insignia except the khaki uniform. ²This rank only exists in Maharashtra and Mumbai Police Service^[2]^[3] ³Shoulder insignia for this rank is used by Maharashtra and Mumbai Police Service^[2]^[3] Note: Colour pattern and size of chevron may vary according to the different rules of several distinct Indian State Police Services.

References

Law enforcement in India

Cross civil service: Indian Police Service and Indian Revenue Service

Federal police	Andaman and Nicobar Police Border Security Force (BSF) Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Chandigarh Police Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (COBRA) Delhi Police Dadra and Nagar Haveli Police Daman and Diu Police Home Guard Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) Lakshadweep Police National Security Guard (NSG) Puducherry Police Railway Protection Force (RPF) Rapid Action Force (RAF) Special Protection Group (SPG)

Federal Intelligence	Directorate General of Income Tax Investigation Investigation Division of the Central Board of Direct Taxes Chief Commissioner of Income Tax Central Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D) Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) Intelligence Bureau (IB) Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) National Investigation Agency (NIA) Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) National Technical Research Organisation

State police	Andhra Pradesh Police Arunachal Pradesh Police Assam Police Bihar Police Chhattisgarh Police Goa Police Gujarat Police Haryana Police Himachal Pradesh Police Jammu and Kashmir Police Jharkhand Police Karnataka Police Kerala Police Madhya Pradesh Police Maharashtra Police Manipur Police Meghalaya Police Mizoram Police Nagaland Police Odisha Police Punjab Police Rajasthan Police Sikkim Police Tamil Nadu Police Telangana Police Tripura Police Uttar Pradesh Police Uttarakhand Police West Bengal Police

Metropolitan police	Allahabad Police Asansol–Durgapur Police Commissionerate Bangalore City Police Barrackpore Police Commissionerate Bhubaneswar–Cuttack Police Commissionerate Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate Coimbatore City Police Chennai Metropolitan Police Howrah Police Commissionerate Hyderabad City Police Kolkata Police Kochi City Police Kollam City Police Mumbai Police Nagpur Police Nizamabad Police Patna Police Pune Police Siliguri Police Commissionerate Thrissur City Police Thiruvananthapuram City Police

State of Telangana

Capital: Hyderabad

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