Indian Police Service

The Indian Police Service (IPS) is the premier policing arm of the All India Services of Government of India. It replaced the Indian Imperial Police in 1948, a year after India became independent from the British Empire.

Along with the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and the Indian Forest Service (IFS), the IPS is part of the All India Services – its officers are employed by both the Union Government and by individual state governments.

The service provides leadership to various state and central police forces and law enforcement agencies including the Central Armed Police Forces (BSF, SSB, CRPF, CISF, and ITBP), the National Security Guard (NSG), Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Intelligence Bureau (IB), Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), Railway Protection Force (RPF), National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO), Special Protection Group (SPG), National Investigation Agency (NIA), and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).