Hyderabad City Police is the local

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agency for the

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Hyderabad Hyderabad is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India. With an average altitude of , much ...

Telangana Telangana is a States and union territories of India, state in India situated in the Southern India, south-central part of the Indian subcontinent on the high Deccan Plateau. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, ele ...

and is headed by the

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. The city police traces its origins to

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under

Hyderabad State Hyderabad State () was a princely state in the Deccan region of south-central India with its capital at the city of Hyderabad. It is now divided into the present-day state of Telangana, the Kalyana-Karnataka region of Karnataka, and the ...

History

1847–1948

The

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used to appoint the commissioners of police who were officers of the

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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

, having powers and functions of additional

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. * 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

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for maintenance of law and order,

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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

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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

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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

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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

Current structure of Law and order Police Stations

Currently the Hyderabad City Police has five zones.

Hyderabad City Police Commissioners

Women Police Stations

* WPS CCS * WPS Begumpet * WPS South zone

Traffic Police Stations

Insignia of Hyderabad Police (City Police)

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

Notes

References

{{Telangana Telangana Police Metropolitan law enforcement agencies of India Government of Hyderabad, India 1847 establishments in India Government agencies established in 1847