Agency overview

Formed

1948[1]

Preceding Agency

Indian Imperial
Police[1]

This article is about the civil

service,the Indian Police Service.

All India Service

For the police in India, see Law

enforcement in India.

Indian Police Service

Agency overview

Formed

1948[1]

Preceding

Indian Imperial Police

Agency

Type

All India Service

Republic of India

Jurisdiction

Employees

4730[2]

Minister

Rajnath Singh, Minister of Home Affairs

responsible

Agency

Dineshwar Sharma,

executives

Bureau
Ajit Seth, Cabinet Secretary

Parent agency

Ministry of Home Affairs

Website

http://mha1.nic.in/ips/ips_home.htm

Service colour

Dark blue and red

Uniform colour

Khaki[3]

The Indian Police

Service (Bhratya Pulis Sev)
or IPS, is one of the three All India
Services of the Government of India.
[4]

It has replaced the Indian

(Imperial) Police in 1948, a year

after India gained
Type
Republic

Jurisdiction
of India

Employees

4730[2]

Minister responsible

Rajnath
Singh, Minister of
Home Affairs

Agency executives

Dineshwar
Sharma, Director of
Intelligence Bureau

Ajit Seth, Cabinet

Secretary

Parent agency

Ministry of Home
Affairs

Website

http://mha1.nic.in/ip
s/ips_home.htm

Service colour

Dark blue and red

Uniform colour

Khaki[3]