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The Andhra Pradesh Police Department is the official law enforcement agency of the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. Public order and police being a state subject in India,^[2] the police force is headed by the Director general of police, Damodar Gautam Sawang.

• 4Structure and organization

History[edit]

The Madras Act XXIV of 1859 which marked the beginning of the Madras Police and shortly later, the Police Act of 1861 instituted the system of police which forms the foundation of modern-day police in India. The 'Ceded Areas' of Andhra, as they were popularly known, continued as a part of the Madras Police and it was only in October 1953, after the birth of a separate Andhra State, that the Andhra State Police gained individual existence. Finally with the formation of the Andhra Pradesh on 1 November 1956 integrating the Telugu areas of the erstwhile Hyderabad state with the Andhra State, the modern day Andhra Pradesh Police came into existence. After the bifurcation of the state in 2014, the police force once again bifurcated.^[3] This time, it was divided into Andhra Pradesh police and Telangana Police.

Recruitment Board[edit]

The Andhra Pradesh State Police Recruitment Board is responsible for recruitment. The board is releases recruitment notification time to time and conducts written examinations, physical tests, medical tests, and interviews for selecting aplicants.^[4]

Police ranks[edit]

The Andhra Pradesh and Telangana Police designates the following ranks

Officers

• Director General of Police
• Additional Director General of Police
• Inspector General of Police
• Deputy Inspector General of Police
• Senior Superintendent of Police
• Superintendent of Police
• Additional Superintendent of Police
• Assistant SP (Indian Police Service) or Deputy SP

Sub-ordinates

• Inspector of Police
• Sub-Inspector of Police (SI)
• Assistant Police Sub Inspector (ASI)
• Head Police Constable
• Senior Police Constable
• Police Constable

Structure and organization[edit]

Districts[edit]

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 commissioner of Police (or simply called Superintendent of Police). Each district comprises two or more Sub-Divisions, several circles and Police Stations.

Sub-Divisions[edit]

Each Sub-Division is headed by a Police officer of the rank Deputy Superintendent of Police (Officers of Andhra Pradesh 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[edit]

A Circle comprises several Police Stations. An Inspector of Police who heads a police circle is the Circle Inspector of Police or CI.

Stations[edit]

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[edit]

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. Vijayawada City Police and Visakhapatnam City Police are the local law enforcement agencies for the cities of Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam respectively. The Guntur Urban Police is being planned to be upgraded as Guntur Police Commissionerate.^[5]

List of Director Generals of Police in Andhra Pradesh[edit]

Incidents[edit]

On 12 May 2017, Andhra Pradesh Police computer's network was attacked by a malware known as WannaCry ransomware attack which was found to be critical.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

Government Of Andhra Pradesh Website

1. ^'Andhra Pradesh Budget Analysis 2017-18'(PDF).
2. ^'State List'(PDF). Archived from the original(PDF) on 17 November 2017.
3. ^'Andhra Pradesh Police History'.
4. ^'Andhra Pradesh Police Recruitment 2019'.
5. ^'Guntur Police Commissionerate'. The Hans India. 19 November 2019. Retrieved 19 November 2019.

External links[edit]

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