Central Reserve Police Force




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Central Reserve Police Force

Central Reserve Police Force emblem.svg
Emblem of the Central Reserve Police Force

Abbreviation CRPF
Motto Service and Loyalty
Agency overview
Formed 27 July, 1939
Employees 313,634 Active Personnel[1]
Annual budget
20,268.03 crore (US$2.8 billion) (2018-19 est.)[2]
Jurisdictional structure
Federal agency IN
Operations jurisdiction IN
Governing body Ministry of Home Affairs (India)
Constituting instrument
  • Central Reserve Police Force Act, 1949
General nature
  • Federal law enforcement
Headquarters New Delhi, India

Minister responsible

  • Rajnath Singh, Union Home Minister
Agency executive
  • Rajiv Rai Bhatnagar, IPS, Director General, CRPF
Parent agency MHA
Child agency

  • CoBRA, RAF
Website
crpf.gov.in

The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) is India's largest Central Armed Police Forces. It functions under the authority of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) of the Government of India. It is also known as a paramilitary force. The CRPF's primary role lies in assisting the State/Union Territories in police operations to maintain law and order and counter insurgency. It came into existence as the Crown Representative's Police on 27 July 1939. After Indian Independence, it became the Central Reserve Police Force on enactment of the CRPF Act on 28 December 1949.


Besides law and order and counter-insurgency duties, the CRPF has played an increasingly large role in India's general elections. This is especially true for the states of Jammu and Kashmir, Bihar and in the North East, with the presence of unrest and often violent conflict. During the Parliamentary elections of September 1999, the CRPF played a major role in the security arrangements. Of late,[when?] CRPF contingents are also being deployed in UN missions.


With 239 battalions and various other establishments, the CRPF is considered India's largest paramilitary force and has a sanctioned strength of more than 300,000 personnel as of 2017.[3]




Contents






  • 1 Mission[4]


  • 2 History[5]


    • 2.1 Current role and strength




  • 3 List of Chiefs of CRPF


  • 4 Organisational structure


  • 5 Rank Structure Gazetted, Group A Officer


  • 6 The Rapid Action Force[17]


  • 7 Parliament Duty Group


  • 8 Weapons


  • 9 Women in the CRPF[20]


  • 10 CoBRA - Commando Battalion for Resolute Action[21]


  • 11 Commando 469


  • 12 Awards


  • 13 See also


  • 14 References


  • 15 External links





Mission[4]


The mission of the Central Reserve Police Force shall be to enable the government to maintain Rule of Law, Public Order and Internal Security effectively and efficiently to preserve National Integrity & Promote Social Harmony and Development by upholding supremacy of the Constitution.


In performing these tasks with utmost regard for human dignity and freedom of the citizens of India, the force shall endeavour to achieve excellence in management of internal security and national calamities by placing Service and Loyalty above self.



History[5]



  • The CRPF was derived from the CRP (Crown Representative's Police) on 27 July 1939 with 2 battalions in Nimach [Means North Indian Mounted Artillery and Cavalry Headquarter], Madhya Pradesh. Its primary duty at the time was to protect the British residents in sensitive states of India.[citation needed]

  • In 1949, the CRP was renamed under the CRPF Act. During the 1960s, many state reserve police battalions were merged with the CRPF. The CRPF has been active against foreign invasion and domestic insurgency.

  • On 21 October 1959, SI Karam Singh and 20 soldiers were attacked by the Chinese Army at Hot Springs in Ladakh resulting in 10 casualties. The survivors were imprisoned. Since then, 21 October is observed as Police Commemoration day nationwide, across all states in India.[6]

  • On intervening night of 8 and 9 April 1965, 3500 men of 51st Infantry Brigade of Pakistan, comprising 18 Punjab Bn, 8 Frontier Rifles and 6 Baluch Bn, stealthily launched operation "Desert Hawk" against border posts in Rann of Kutch. It was to the valour of Head Constable Bhawana Ram deployed on the eastern parameter of Sardar Post whose gallant act was to a great extent instrumental in demoralising the intruders and forcing them to retreat from the post.


There are few parallels of such a battle and the then Union Home Minister very appropriately graded it as a "Military Battle" not a Police battle. The service and their sacrifice will now not need turning back to old records for appreciation with that historic moment being picked up for celebration as "Valour Day” of the Force after Year.



  • The CRPF guarded the India-Pakistan Border until 1965, at which point the Border Security Force was created for that purpose.

  • On 2001 Indian Parliament attack the CRPF troopers killed all five terrorists who had entered the premises of the Indian Parliament in New Delhi.

  • When 5 armed terrorists tried to storm the Ram Janambhoomi / Babri Masjid Complex in Ayodhya on 5 July 2005 and had penetrated the outer security rings, they were challenged by CRPF which formed the inner security ring. Shri Vijeto Tinyi, AC and Shri Dharambir Singh, Head Constable, who exhibited exemplary gallant were awarded with ‘Shaurya Chakra’.[5]

  • In recent years, the Government of India has decided to follow up on recommendations of the Indian cabinet to use each security agency for its mandated purpose. As a result, the counter-insurgency operations in India have been entrusted to the CRPF.

  • In 2008 a wing called Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) was added to the CRPF to counter the Naxalite movement.

  • On 2 September 2009, 5000 CRPF soldiers were deployed for a search and rescue mission to find the then Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy whose helicopter went missing over the Nallamalla Forest Range in Andhra Pradesh. This was the largest search operation ever mounted in India.



Current role and strength


As of 2010, the CRPF is the largest paramilitary organisation of the country and is actively looking after the internal security of every part of India and are were even operating abroad as part of IPKF and the United Nations peacekeeping missions. It is performing a variety of duties ranging from VIP security to election duties, from guarding of vital installations to the counter-naxal operations.



List of Chiefs of CRPF


V. G. Kanetkar was the first Director General of the Central Reserve Police Force, serving from 3 August 1968 to 15 September 1969.[7] The current Director General is Rajiv Rai Bhatnagar, in office since 27 April 2017.[8]





















































































































































































































Sr No.
Name
From
Till
1
V G Kanetka
3 August 1968
15 September 1969
2
Imdad Ali
16 September 1969
28 February 1973
3
B B Mishra
1 March 1973
30 September 1974
4
N S Saxena
30 September 1974
31 May 1977
5
S M Ghosh
1 June 1977
31 July 1978
6
R C Gopal
31 July 1978
10 August 1979
7
P R Rajgopal
10 August 1979
30 March 1980
8
Birbal Nath
13 May 1980
3 September 1980
9
R N Sheopory
3 September 1980
31 December 1981
10
S D Chowdhury
27 January 1982
30 April 1983
11
Shival Swarup
30 July 1983
7 May 1985
12
J F Ribeiro
4 June 1985
8 July 1985
13
T G L Iyer
July 1985
Nov 1985
14
S D Pandey
1 November 1985
31 March 1988
15
P G Harlarnkar
1 April 1988
30 September 1990
16

K P S Gill
19 December 1990
8 November 1991
17
S Subramanian
9 November 1991
31 January 1992
18
D P N Singh
1 February 1992
30 November 1993
19
S V M Tripathi
1 December 1993
30 June 1996
20
M B Kaushal
1 October 1996
12 November 1997
21
M N Sabharwal
2 December 1997
31 July 2000
22
Trinath Mishra
31 July-2000
31 December 2002
23
S C Chaube
31 December 2002
31 January 2004
24

J K Sinha
31 January 2004
28 February 2007
25
S I S Ahmed
1 March 2007
31 March 2008
26
V K Joshi
31 March 2008
28 February 2009
27
A S Gill
28 February 2009
31 January 2010
28
Vikram Srivastava
31 January 2010
6 October 2010
29

K Vijay Kumar
7 October 2010
30 September 2012
30
Pranay Sahay
1 October 2012
31 July 2013
31
Dilip Trivedi
17 August 2013
30 November 2014
32
Prakash Mishra
1 December 2014
29 February 2016
33
K. Durga Prasad
1 March 2016
28 February 2017
34
Rajiv Rai Bhatnagar
27 April 2017
Incumbent


Organisational structure




CRPF personnel during the Republic Day Parade


The CRPF is headed by a Director general who is an Indian Police Service officer and is divided into ten administrative sectors, each headed by an Inspector General. Each Sector consists of one or more administrative and/or Operational Ranges, headed by an officer of the rank of Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police. Now, Group Centres are also headed by DIGs. The Financial Advisor of the CRPF has been an Indian Revenue Service officer of the rank of Joint Secretary and also has Dy Advisors from the Indian Audit and Accounts Service or the Indian Telecom. Service and Indian Civil Account Service.


There are 243 battalions, (including 204 executive Bns, 6 Mahila Bns, 15 RAF Bns, 10 CoBRA Bns, 5 Signal Bns and 1 Special Duty Group, 1 Parliament Duty Group),[9] of approximately 1200 constables each. Each battalion is commanded by an officer designated as Commandant, and consists of seven CRPF companies, each containing 135 men. Each company is headed by an Assistant Commandant.


The Ministry of Home Affairs plans to raise 2 Group Centers, 2 Range HQ's, 1 Sector HQ and 12 new battalions including a Mahila (all female) battalion by 2019.[10]


The Assistant Commandants are Group 'A' gazetted officers, directly appointed upon clearing an exam conducted by the UPSC which is held yearly.


The CRPF force is organized into a Headquarters and fours zones. A zone is either headed by an Additional Director General(ADG) or a Special Director General. A zone is sub-divided into sectors where each sector is headed by an Inspector General(IG).[11]



















































Zone
Commander
Sector
Directorate General
DG K Durga Prasad[12]
Rapid Action Force
Communications
North-East
SDG Shri Prabhat Singh, IPS[13]
Jorhat
Manipur and Nagaland
Tripura
North Eastern
Southern
SDG Sh Rajesh Pratap Singh, IPS[14]
Western
Southern
Central
SDG Shri Kuldiep Singh, IPS[15]
Bihar
Central
Madhya Pradesh
Eastern
Odisha
Chhattisgarh
Jharkhand
West Bengal
CoBRA
Jammu & Kashmir
ADG Shri V.S.K. Kaumudi, IPS[16]
Jammu
Northern
Rajasthan
North Western
Srinagar
Operations Kashmir


Rank Structure Gazetted, Group A Officer











































CRPF RANKS POLICE RANKS
Director General (Apex Scale of the Indian Police Service) Director General of a State Police Force
Special Director General (HAG+ Scale of the Indian Police Service) Special Director General
Additional Director General (HAG Scale of the Indian Police Service, also available to BSF cadre) C.P, ADG
Inspector General (IG) IG / Joint CP
Deputy Inspector General (DIG) DIG / Additional CP
Senior Commandant / Commandant (CO) SSP / DCP
Second In Command (2IC) SP / DCP
Deputy Commandant (DC) Addl. SP / Addl. DCP
Assistant Commandant (AC): Group A Gazetted Officer DSP / ACP


Being a central Indian police agency and having high presence of Indian Police Service officers, CRPF follows ranks and insignia similar to other police organisations in India.
*There is no equivalence between the ranks of the defense forces and the police forces since there is no government established relativity in terms of rank.




Union Home Minister, Rajnath Singh meeting Rapid Action Force (RAF) officers.



The Rapid Action Force[17]


The Rapid Action Force (RAF) is a specialised 10 battalion wing of the Indian Central Reserve Police Force. It was formed in October 1992, to deal with communal riots and related civil unrest. The battalions are numbered from 99 to 108. The RAF is a zero-response force intended to quickly respond to a crisis situation.


This force also has the distinction of having a unique flag signifying peace. The force was the recipient of the President's colour presented by SH L.K. Advani, then Deputy Prime Minister Of India, on 7th October 2003 for "its selfless service to the nation in the 11th year of coming into existence".


The smallest functional unit in the force is a 'Team' commanded by an inspector, has three components namely a riot control element, a tear smoke element and a fire element. It has been organised as an independent strike unit.


One team in each company of the RAF is composed of female personnel so as to deal more effectively with situation where the force faces women demonstrators.[18]



Parliament Duty Group


The Parliament Duty Group is an elite CRPF unit tasked with providing armed protection to Parliament House.[19] It comprises 1,540 personnel drawn from various units of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). PDG members are trained in combating nuclear and bio-chemical attacks, rescue operations and behavioural management.


The Parliament House complex is protected by teams from the Delhi police, CRPF, ITBP and personnel of the Parliament Security Service. The Parliament Security Service acts as the overall coordinating agency in close cooperation with various security agencies such as the Delhi Police, CRPF, IB, SPG and NSG.


PDG personnel are armed with Glock Pistols, MP5 Submachine Gun, INSAS sniper rifles with telescope and hand-held thermal imagers.[19]



Weapons


CRPF uses basic Infantry weapons which are manufactured indigenously at the Indian Ordnance Factories under control of the Ordnance Factories Board:




  1. Pistol Auto 9mm 1A and Glock 17 9 mm pistols


  2. Heckler & Koch MP5 replacing the Carbine 1A 9 mm sub-machine guns


  3. INSAS 5.56 mm assault rifles


  4. INSAS 5.56 mm light machine guns replacing the Bren L4 machine guns





CRPF CoBRA trooper




  1. AGS-30 Plamya 30 mm automatic grenade launcher


  2. AKM for counter-insurgency

  3. Tavor TAR-21


  4. Micro Tavor (X95) Bullpup.

  5. FN MAG

  6. OFB 51mm Mortar

  7. OFB 81mm Mortar


  8. Carl Gustav 84 mm recoilless rifles


In addition to these, CRPF also uses land mine detectors.



Women in the CRPF[20]


CRPF is the only Para Military Force in the Country which has three Mahila (Ladies) Battalions. After its training in March 1987, 88(M) Bn won laurels for its work assisting the Meerut riots and later with the IPKF in Sri Lanka. Personnel of second Mahila battalion (135 Bn) performed creditably during the Lok Sabha elections 1996 in many states.


At present mahila personnel are deployed in active duty in Jammu & Kashmir, Ayodhya, Manipur, Assam and other parts of the country where they are doing commendable job. In addition each RAF battalion has a Mahila (Ladies) component consisting of 96 personnel.


With increasing participation of women in politics, agitation and crime, policemen have been feeling handicapped in handling women agitations especially because even a small, real or alleged misdemeanour on their part in dealing with any matter related to women has the potential of turning into a serious law & order problem. To cope with such eventualities the first Mahila Bn in CRPF, the 88(M) Bn was created in 1986 with HQR in Delhi.


The successful experiment of the 88 (Mahila) Bn and the ever-increasing requirement of a Mahila component in dealing with emerging law and order situation as well as the Government emphasis to empower the women Department had taken of raising the second and third Mahila Bn i.e. the 13 (M) Bn with HQR at Gandhinagar (Gujarat) in 1995 and the 213 Bn with HQR at Nagpur(Maharastra) in 2011.[20]



CoBRA - Commando Battalion for Resolute Action[21]


In 2008 a wing called Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) was added to the CRPF to counter the Naxalite movement in India. This specialised CRPF unit is one of the few units of the Central Armed Police Forces in the country who are specifically trained in guerilla warfare. This elite fighting unit has been trained to track, hunt and eliminate small Naxalite groups. There are currently 10 COBRA units.


10 CoBRA units raised between 2008-2011 have been trained, equipped and deployed in all LWE/ Insurgent affected areas of the states of Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, as well as Assam & Meghalaya is one of the best Central Armed Police in the country trained to survive, fight and win in the jungle. CoBRA is unquestionably/undoubtedly the best CAP in the country.


CoBRA was awarded 04 Shaurya Chakra, 01 Kirti Chakra, 01 PPMG,[22] 117 PMG, and 1267 DG Commendation disc and 31 personnel’s were Killed in action during operations.



Commando 469


CRPF Commandos are specialized in counter-terrorism, reconnaissance, and sabotage and have the honor of being the most elite among the forces. They undergo extremely rigorous training for years sometimes, before they are ready and when they are done with the training, they can be easily classified as among the toughest and most competent men and women in the forces.
They are specialized to carry out covert operations.



Awards


Members of the CRPF has been awarded 1586 medals.[23]





























































































Sl No
Medal Name
Numbers
01

George Cross
01
02

King's Police Medal for Gallantry
03
03

Ashok Chakra
01
04

Kirti Chakra
01
05

Padma Shri
01
06

Vir Chakra
01
07

Shaurya Chakra
14
08

President's Police and Fire Services Medal for Gallantry
49
09

President's Police Medal for Gallantry
192
10

Yudh Seva Medal
01
11

Sena Medal
05
11

Vishisht Seva Medal
04
12

Police Medal for Gallantry
1205
13
IPMG
05
14

Jeevan Raksha Padak
03
15
Prime Minister's Police Medal for Life Saving
100

TOTAL


1586


See also



  • Ministry of Home Affairs

  • Border Security Force

  • Indo-Tibetan Border Police

  • Central Industrial Security Force

  • Sashastra Seema Bal

  • Assam Rifles

  • National Security Guard

  • Border outpost

  • Operation Green Hunt

  • Coast Guard



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