# Hyderabad City Police

Hyderabad City Police is the local law enforcement agency for the city of Hyderabad, Telangana and is headed by the Commissioner of Police. The city police traces its origins to 1847 under Hyderabad State.

## History
### 1847–1948

The Nizam of Hyderabad used to appoint the commissioners of police who were officers of the Hyderabad Civil Service and they used to function during his pleasure. They were answerable to the Nizam directly on various matters of policing in Hyderabad city. However, as far as administrative matters were concerned the commissioner of police used to correspond with the Home Department directly. The commissioner of police was popularly called "Kotwal" and was responsible for the maintenance of the law and order, prevention and detection of crime, etc.

### Reorganization

Due to rapid increase in population, there has been a steady increase in crime. In view of the above in 1981 the city police was re-organised, vide G.O.Ms.No.341, Home Department, dated: 1981-05-30. The following structure was instituted:
* The disciplinary and administrative control of the force is held by the Commissioner of Police, having powers and functions of additional district magistrate.
* The city was divided into five zones: south, east, west, central and north, the four zones were again divided into 12 divisions. Each zone is in the charge of a deputy commissioner of police of the rank of a superintendent of police for maintenance of law and order, criminal investigation and keeping up the morale of the force.
* Each division is under the care of an assistant commissioner of police of the rank of deputy superintendent of police, who works under the control of deputy commissioner of police. He is responsible for prevention and detection of crimes, maintenance of law and order and discipline of the force.
* Each police station is under the care of an inspector of police who is the station house officer and performs all the duties and exercises all the powers of that office.
* The city crimes station was renamed as "Detective Department" which works under the deputy commissioner of police, assisted by assistant commissioners of police and inspectors.
* In 1992, the Government of Andhra Pradesh sanctioned three joint commissioners of police posts in the rank of deputy inspector general to assist the commissioner of police for effective functioning and better administration of city police each in-charge of co-ordination, crimes and security.
* One sub-inspector of police was to be placed in charge of law and order duties and another for crime duties for each police station. A divisional detective inspector for each division was provided for. In order to achieve this functional division it was proposed in the scheme to increases the number of posts of sub-inspectors and head constables and decrease the number of posts of police constables.plus in the corona time the police doing very good and in 2020 rainy season they were protecting still in heavy rain go police
* In 2014, Andhra Pradesh was split into two. Hyderabad became a part of Telangana.

### Hierarchy

* Commissioner of Police (CP) (ADGP Rank)
* Additional Commissioner of Police (Addl.CP) (IG Rank)
* Joint Commissioner of Police (Jt.CP) (DIG Rank)
* Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) (SP Rank)
* Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Addl.DCP) (Addl.SP Rank)
* Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) (ASP/DSP Rank)
* Inspector of Police/Circle Inspector (CI)
* Sub-Inspector of Police (SI)
* Assistant Sub Inspector of Police (ASI)
* Head Constable (HC)
* Police Constable (PC)

## Current structure of Law and order Police Stations

Currently the Hyderabad City Police has five zones.
1) Mahankali Division: PS Mahankali, PS Market, PS Ramgopal Pet 2) Gopalpuram Division: PS Gopalapuram, PS Maredpally
3) Begumpet Division: PS Begumpet, PS Bowenpally 4) Trimulgherry Division : PS Trimulgherry, Ps Bollaram, PS Karkhana
Central Zone 1) Abids Division : PS Abids, PS Begumbazar 2) Chikkadpally Division : PS Chikkadpally, PS Musheerabad, 3) Saifabad Division : PS Saifabad, PS Nampally, PS Khairthabad 4) Gandhi Nagar Division : PS Gandhi Nagar, PS Domal Guda, Ps Lake Police Station (Secretariat)
South Zone 1) Charminar Division: PS Charminar, PS Kamatipura, PS Hussaini Alam 2) Mirchowk Division: PS Mirchowk, PS Bhavani Nagar, PS Rein Bazar 3) Falaknuma Division: PS Falaknuma, PS Bahadurpura, PS Kala Phatar 4) Chatri Naka Division: PS Chatri Naka, PS Mogalpura, PS Shali banda
South East Zone 1) Chandrayangutta Division : PS Chandrayangutta, PS Bandla guda, PS Kanchan Bagh 2) Santosh Nagar Division : PS Santosh Nagar, PS IS Sadan 3) Saidabad Division : PS Saidabad, PS Madhannapet 4) Malakpet Division : Ps Malakpet, Ps Chaderghat, PS Dabeerpura
South West Zone 1) Asifnagar Division : PS Asifnagar, PS Habeeb Nagar, PS Humayun nagar 2) Goshamahal Division : PS Shah Inayat Gunj, PS Manglhat 3) Golconda Division : PS Golconda, PS Langer Houz 4) Kulsumpura Division : PS Kulsumpura, PS Guddi malkapur, PS Tappa Chabutra
West Zone 1) Banjara Hills Division: PS Banjara hills, PS Masab Tank 2) Jubilee Hills Division : PS Jubilee Hills, PS Film Nagar 3) Panjagutta Division: PS Panjagutta, PS Madhura Nagar 4) SR Nagar Division: PS SR Nagar, PS Borabanda
East Zone 1) Kachiguda Division: PS Kachiguda, PS Amberpet 2) Chilkalguda Division: PS Chilkalguda, PS Lala guda, PS Warsi guda 3) Osmania University Division : PS Osmania University, PS Nalla kunta

## Women Police Stations

* WPS CCS
* WPS Begumpet
* WPS South zone

## Traffic Police Stations

* Abid Traffic Police Station
* Asif Nagar Traffic Police Station
* Bahadurpura Traffic Police Station
* Banjara Hills Traffic Police Station
* Begumpet Traffic Police Station
* Charminar Traffic Police Station
* Chikkadpally Traffic Police Station
* Falaknuma Traffic Police Station
* Gopalpuram Traffic Police Station
* Goshamahal Traffic Police Station
* Jubilee Hills Traffic Police Station
* Amberpet Traffic Police Station
* Malakpet Traffic Police Station
* Marredpally Traffic Police Station
* Mahankali Traffic Police Station
* Mirchowk Traffic Police Station
* Nallakunta Traffic Police Station
* Nampally Traffic Police Station
* Narayanguda Traffic Police Station
* Panjagutta Traffic Police Station
* Saifabad Traffic Police Station
* SR. Nagar Traffic Police Station
* Sultan Bazar Traffic Police Station
* Trimulgherry Traffic Police Station
* Tolichowki Traffic Police Station

## Insignia of Hyderabad Police (City 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 IG and above rank officers. ||||||||||||||||||

### Non-gazetted officers

Indian Police non-gazetted officers rank insignia :
| Insignia | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | No insignia | No insignia |
| Rank | Inspector | Inspector | Inspector | Assistant inspector | Assistant inspector | Assistant inspector | Sub-inspector | Sub-inspector | Assistant sub-inspector | Assistant sub-inspector | Head constable | Head constable | Head constable | Head constable | Head constable | Head constable | Head constable | Head constable | Head constable | Head constable | Head constable | Head constable | Police Naik | Police Naik | Police Naik | Police Naik | Police constable | Police constable |
| Abbreviation | INSP/PI | INSP/PI | INSP/PI | API | API | API | SI | SI | ASI | ASI | HC | HC | HC | HC | HC | HC | HC | HC | HC | HC | HC | HC | SC | SC | SC | SC | PC | PC |
| Note: Colour pattern and size of chevrons may vary according to the different rules of several distinct Indian State Police services. ||||||||||||||||||

## Online presence

Hyderabad Police launched Facebook pages for the police stations in Hyderabad on 16 December 2014. The pages can be used by the general public to report grievances.

## Special agencies

* Intelligence Unit
* Commando Force
* Security Battalion