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The first specific Jammu & Kashmir police force came into existence in the year 1873 with one police officer known as Kotwal and 14 Thanedars for Srinagar City.This police force would control crime and take care of law and order situations with help of Chowkidars and Harkars, who were paid mandatorily by the residents of Imperial Kashmir Union.
In every district of the state, the SOG is headed by Superintendent Police (operations) or Deputy Superintendent Police (operations). [1] The recruits of the SOG are young men from all the regions of the state and reflect Jammu and Kashmir's various ethnic groups: Kashmiris, Gujjars, Dogras and Sikhs. Many of them have been the victims of ...
The state police is headed by an Indian Police Service officer with the rank of Director General of Police (DGP), assisted by one or more Additional Directors General of Police (ADGs). Other DG rank officers head autonomous bodies not controlled by the DGP, such as the police recruitment board, fire service and police training.
The Jammu and Kashmir Police Special Operations Group (SOG) was created in the early 1990s. [12] Each district of Kashmir has multiple SOG units with varying strength according to the amount of militancy in the district. Each unit is headed by a deputy superintendent of police. Kulgam, Anantnag, Shopian and Pulwama are districts with the most ...
When insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir broke out in 1989 and the Jammu and Kashmir state police and the thinly-deployed Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) needed extra force to cope with spiraling violence, the central government deployed the BSF to Jammu and Kashmir to combat Kashmiri militants.
SRINAGAR (Reuters) -Police in India's territory of Jammu and Kashmir blamed arch rival Pakistan on Wednesday for a spate of militant attacks that has killed 12 people and injured dozens over the ...
As recently as 2019, the Jammu and Kashmir Police (JKP) set up new VDCs in Kishtwar district, [2] which has over 3,251 VDC members out of which 800 are armed. [2] In Jammu and Kashmir, there were 4,125 VDCs as of December 2019. [3] The Indian Army conducts training camps for VDCs consisting of weapons training and intelligence gathering basics.
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