Indian Police Service

Indian Police Service
Service Overview
Motto: सत्यमेव जयते
(Sanskrit)
"Truth Alone Triumphs"
INDIAN_POLICE_SERVICE_LOGO
AbbreviationIPS
Date of establishment
[1]
Country India
Staff collegeSardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy, Hyderabad, Telangana
Cadre controlling authorityMinistry of Home Affairs
Minister responsibleAmit Shah, Minister of 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 the All India Services
Cabinet SecretaryT. V. Somanathan, IAS

The Indian Police Service (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. ^ 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.

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