# Telangana Police

The Telangana Police, officially known as 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, Dr. Jitender, and headquartered in Hyderabad, Telangana.

## Structure and organization
### State Police Headquarters

The Director General of Police functions from Police Directorate, located in the DGP headquarters in Hyderabad. The Director General of Police (DGP) is designated as the head of the department. 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).

### 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 Assistant 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.

## Police ranks

The Telangana State Police designates the following ranks:
Higher Officers
* Director General of Police (DGP)
* Additional Director General of Police (Addl.DGP)
* Inspector General of Police (IGP)
* Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG)
* Superintendent of police (SP)/(Commissioner of Police(CP))
* Deputy Superintendent of Police((DSP) Assistant Superintendent of Police((ASP))
* Assistant Commissioner of police(ACP)/(Deputy Commissioner of police India|(DCP)
Sub-ordinates
* Circle-Inspector of Police (CI/Insp.)
* Sub-Inspector of Police (SI)
* Assistant Sub-Inspector of Police (ASI)
* Head Police Constable (HPC)
* Police Constable (PC)
* Home Guard (HG)

## 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

## Insignia of Telangana Police (State Police)

Gazetted Officers
Indian Police Service gazetted officers rank insignia :
| Insignia | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Rank | Director general of police | Director general of police | Additional director general of police | Additional director general of police | Inspector general of police | Inspector general of police | Deputy inspector general of police | Deputy inspector general of police | Senior superintendent of police | Senior superintendent of police | Senior superintendent of police | Superintendent of police | Superintendent of police | Additional superintendent of police | Additional superintendent of police | Assistant superintendent of police | Assistant superintendent of police | Assistant superintendent of police | Assistant superintendent of police | Assistant superintendent of police | Assistant superintendent of police | Assistant superintendent of police (probationary for two years) | Assistant superintendent of police (probationary for two years) | Assistant superintendent of police (probationary for two years) | Assistant superintendent of police (probationary for two years) | Assistant superintendent of police (probationary for one year) | Assistant superintendent of police (probationary for one year) |
| Abbreviation | DGP | DGP | ADGP | ADGP | IGP | IGP | DIG | DIG | SSP | SSP | SSP | SP | SP | Addl.SP | Addl.SP | ASP | ASP | ASP | ASP | ASP | ASP | ASP | ASP | ASP | ASP | ASP | ASP |
| Note 1: The equivalent rank to the ASP in State Police Services is the deputy superintendent of police (DSP/DySP). Note 2: The commissioner of police is a post typically held by DIG and above rank officers. ||||||||||||||||||
Non-gazetted officers
Indian Police non-gazetted officers rank insignia :
| Insignia | | | | | | | | | | | | | No insignia | No insignia |
| Rank | Inspector | Inspector | Assistant inspector | Assistant inspector | Sub-inspector | Sub-inspector | Assistant sub-inspector | Assistant sub-inspector | Head constable | Head constable | Senior Constable | Senior Constable | Police constable | Police constable |
| Abbreviation | INSP/PI | INSP/PI | API | API | SI | SI | ASI | ASI | HC | HC | SC | SC | PC | PC |
| Colour pattern and size of chevrons may vary according to the different rules of several distinct Indian State Police services. |||||||||||||||

## List of Directors General of Police
### After bifurcation (2014-Present)

| Sl. No. | Name | Batch | Tenure |
| 1 | Sri Anurag Sharma, IPS | 1982 (RR) | 3-6-2014 – 12-11-2017 |
| 2 | Dr. M. Mahender Reddy, IPS | 1986 (RR) | 12-11-2017 – 31-12-2022 |
| 3 | Sri Anjani Kumar, IPS | 1990 (RR) | 31-12-2022 – 3-12-2023 |
| 4 | Sri Ravi Gupta, IPS | 1990 (RR) | 3-12-2023 – 10-07-2024 |
| 5 | Dr. Jitender, IPS | 1992 (RR) | 10-07-2024 – present |

### Before bifurcation (1956–2014)

| Sl. No. | Name | Batch | Tenure |
| 1 | Sri A. K. K. Nambiar, IPS | 1935 (SPS) | 1-11-1956 to 2-8-1967 |
| 2 | Sri Sivakumar Lal, IPS | 1935 (SPS) | 3-8-1967 to 6-10-1968 |
| 3 | Sri Atma Jayaram, IPS | 1942 (SPS) | 7-10-1968 to 6-11-1971 |
| 4 | Sri B. N Kalyan Rao, IPS | 1943 (SPS) | 7-11-1971 to 15-7-1973 |
| 5 | Sri Abdus Salam Khan, IPS | 1947 (SPS) | 16-7-1973 to 30-4-1975 |
| 6 | Sri K. Ramachandra Reddy, IPS | 1944 (SPS) | 1-5-1975 to 31-10-1978 |
| 7 | Sri M. V. Narayana Rao, IPS | 1948 (RR) | 1-11-1978 to 31-3-1982 |
| 8 | Sri S. Ananda Ram, IPS | 1950 (RR) | 1-4-1982 to 10-4-1983 |
| 9 | Sri K. G. Erady, IPS | 1952 (RR) | 11-4-1983 to 21-8-1984 |
| 10 | Sri M. Mahendar Reddy, IPS | 1953 (RR) | 22-8-1984 to 16-1-1985 |
| 11 | Sri P. V. G. Krishnamacharyulu, IPS | 1951 (RR) | 17-1-1985 to 28-2-1986 |
| 12 | Sri C. G. Saldanha, IPS | 1953 (RR) | 1-3-1986 to 31-3-1987 |
| 13 | Sri P. S. Rammohan Rao, IPS | 1956 (RR) | 1-4-1987 to 9-2-1989 |
| 14 | Sri Sushil Kumar, IPS | 1955 (RR) | 10-2-1989 to 23-4-1990 |
| 15 | Sri R. Prabhakar Rao, IPS | 1957 (RR) | 24-4-1990 to 28-2-1992 |
| 16 | Sri T. Suryanarayana Rao, IPS | 1958 (RR) | 1-3-1992 to 28-2-1994 |
| 17 | Sri M. V. Bhaskar Rao, IPS | 1962 (RR) | 1-3-1994 to 16-12-1994 |
| 18 | Sri R. K. Ragaala, IPS | 1962 (RR) | 16-12-1994 to 31-7-1995 |
| 19 | Sri M. S. Raju, IPS | 1962 (RR) | 31-7-1995 to 30-11-1996 |
| 20 | Sri H. J. Dora, IPS | 1965 (RR) | 30-11-1996 to 18-02-2002 |
| 21 | Sri Pervaram Ramulu, IPS | 1967 (RR) | 18-02-2002 to 31-07-2003 |
| 22 | Sri S. R. Sukumara, IPS | 1967 (RR) | 31-07-2003 to 31-12-2004 |
| 23 | Sri Noel Swaranjit Sen, IPS | 1968 (RR) | 31-12-2004 to 31-12-2006 |
| 24 | Sri M. A. Basith, IPS | 1970 (RR) | 01-01-2007 to 31-10-2007 |
| 25 | Sri S. S. P. Yadav, IPS | 1972 (RR) | 31-10-2007 to 07-10-2009 |
| 26 | Sri R. R. Girish Kumar, IPS | 1976 (RR) | 07-10-2009 to 31-08-2010 |
| 27 | Sri K. Aravinda Rao, IPS | 1977 (RR) | 01-09-2010 to 30-06-2011 |
| 28 | Sri V. Dinesh Reddy, IPS | 1977 (RR) | 30-06-2011 to 29-10-2013 |
| 29 | Dr. B. Prasada Rao, IPS | 1979 (RR) | 30-10-2013 to 02-06-2014 |