Indian Police Service

This article is about the civil service, the Indian Police Service. For the police in India, see Law enforcement in India.
"Indian Police Force" redirects here. For the web series, see Indian Police Force (web series).
For other uses, see Indian Police (disambiguation).

Indian Police Service
Service Overview
Indian Police service
Motto: सत्यमेव जयते (Sanskrit)
"Truth Alone Triumphs"
INDIAN_POLICE_SERVICE_LOGO
Logo of Indian Police Service
Formerly known asIndian Imperial Police[1]
AbbreviationIPS
Date of Establishment
  • 1905; 119 years ago (1905)
    (as Indian Imperial Police)
  • 1948; 76 years ago (1948)
    (as Indian Police Service)
[1]
CountryIndia
Staff CollegeSardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy, Hyderabad
Cadre Controlling AuthorityMinistry of Home Affairs, Government of India
Minister ResponsibleAmit Shah, Union Cabinet Minister for Home Affairs.
Legal personalityGovernmental: Civil Service
Cadre Strength5,047 members (2023)
(4,344 officers in position; 703 position vacant)[2]
SelectionCivil Services Examination
AssociationIPS Central Association
Head of All India Civil Services
Cabinet Secretary of IndiaT. V. Somanathan

The Indian Police Service (abbr. IPS) is a civil service under the All India Services. 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[3] – its officers are employed by both the Union Government and by individual states.

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

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference history was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Authorised Cadre Strength of the Indian Police Service (as on 01.01.2023)" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs. Retrieved 22 November 2023.[permanent dead link‍]
  3. ^ "IPS, IAS and IFoS: All India Services (Government of India)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 April 2009. Retrieved 13 April 2009.