The Telangana State Police Department is the

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for the state of

Telangana Telangana (; , ) is a States and union territories of India, state in India situated on the south-central stretch of the Indian subcontinent, Indian peninsula on the high Deccan Plateau. It is the List of states and union territories of India b ...

in India. It has jurisdiction concurrent with the 33 revenue districts of the state. The police force was created from the remnants of the

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after Telangana state was formed. It is headed by the

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, Anjani Kumar, and headquartered in

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, 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

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.

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and

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has issued ordinance for new commissionerates at

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, Nizamabad,

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, and

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Ranks

The Director General of Police functions from Police Directorate, located in the DGP headquarters in

. 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 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 Pra ...

designates the following ranks: Stamp of India - 2017 - Colnect 909901 - Police Day - Telangana State Police

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) *Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) *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 ;Non-gazetted officers

Notes

References

{{Law enforcement in India Government of Telangana State law enforcement agencies of India 2014 establishments in Telangana Government agencies established in 2014