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Abbreviation | CRPF |
Motto | "सेवा और निष्ठा" Service and Loyalty |
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Employees | 313,634 Active personnel |
Annual budget | ₹31,543.20 crore (US$3.8 billion) (2024–25)[1] |
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Operations jurisdiction | India |
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Governing body | Ministry of Home Affairs |
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Headquarters | CGO Complex, New Delhi, INDIA |
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The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) is a Central Armed Police Force in India under the Ministry of Home Affairs. The CRPF's primary role lies in assisting the States and Union Territories in police operations to maintain law and order and provide Internal security. It is composed of Central Reserve Police Force (Regular) and Central Reserve Police Force (Auxiliary).
It was founded as the Crown Representative's Police on 27 July 1939. After Indian independence, it became the Central Reserve Police Force on the enactment of the CRPF Act on 28 December 1949. Besides law and order and counter-insurgency duties, the CRPF has played a role in India's elections. The CRPF played a major role in the Parliamentary elections of September 1999. CRPF officers are also being deployed in UN missions.
With 247 battalions and various other establishments, the CRPF is India's largest central armed police force and has a sanctioned strength of more than 300,000 personnel as of 2019.[3]