Hi I would like to have information about Central Reserve Police Force as well as the information about the Director General of CRPF as well as the organization structure?

The Central Reserve Police Force appeared as Crown Representative's Police on 27th July 1939. It turned into the Central Reserve Police Force on sanctioning of the CRPF Act on 28th December 1949. It has finished 77 years of heavenly history.

The Force has developed into a major association with 240 Bns, (counting 207 official Bns, 6 Mahila Bns, 10 RAF Bns, 10 CoBRA Bns, 5 Signal Bns and 1 Special Duty Group, 1 Parliament Duty Group), 43 Group Centers, 20 Training Institutions, 3 CWS, 7 AWS, 3 SWS, 4 Composite Hospitals of 100 overnight boardinghouse Composite Hospitals of 50 bed.

The nation's biggest paramilitary constrain - CRPF was on 27th February 2017 rendered without a standard boss after its Director General K Durga Prasad resigned without a successor being named.

The Union Home Ministry issued a request selecting CRPF Additional DG Sudeep Lakhtakia in "extra charge of the post of DG, Central Reserve Police Force from tomorrow till the arrangement and joining of standard successor.

Authorities said while the names of in regards to three senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officers had been shortlisted, no choice has been taken by the Home Ministry and the Prime Minister-drove Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC) till now to select another CRPF DG.

The CRPF is not just the lead hostile to Naxal operations drive of the nation but on the other hand is vigorously sent for rendering general peace obligations in different states in help to nearby police.

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Postal Address

Directorate General
Central Reserve Police Force,
Block No.-1, C.G.O. Complex,
Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110 003, INDIA
E-mail : igadm@crpf.gov.in