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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 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 ...
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 union territory of Ladakh was formed on 31 October as a result of provisions contained within the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019. [3] The region was previously part of the state of Jammu and Kashmir and policing was the responsibility of the Jammu and Kashmir Police. A new organisation for the police force of Ladakh was created ...
The Azad Kashmir Police (آزاد کشمیر پولیس) or Azad Jammu and Kashmir Police (AJKP) is responsible for law enforcement in the Azad Kashmir region administered by Pakistan. It is presently headed by Inspector-General of Police , Sohail Habib Tajik (PSP), [ 1 ] and headquartered in the Central Police Office (CPO) Muzaffarabad , Azad ...
From 1989 to 2004, the ITBP also had a minor presence in Jammu and Kashmir to combat the insurgency in Kashmir. [ 4 ] In 2004 the ITBP took over border patrol responsibilities for the entire 3,488 km long border, replacing the Assam Rifles in Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh .The ITBP previously worked in cooperation with the Assam Rifles for ...
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.