The Himachal Pradesh Police is the law enforcement agency for the state of Himachal Pradesh in India. It has one state headquarters at Shimla and 12 district headquarters in the state.

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Himachal Pradesh Police
Common name	HP Police
Abbreviation	H.P.P.
Motto	"निर्भय निष्पक्ष सत्यनिष्ठ".
Agency overview
Annual budget	₹1,425 crore (US$180 million) (2019–20 est.) [1]
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction	Himachal Pradesh, India
Jurisdiction of Himachal Pradesh Police
Legal jurisdiction	State of Himachal Pradesh
Governing body	Department of Home (Himachal Pradesh)
Constituting instrument	Police Act, 1861
General nature	Local civilian police
Operational structure
Headquarters	Police Headquarters, Shimla
Minister responsible	Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh and Minister of Home and Confidential
Agency executive	Sanjay Kundu, Director General of Police
Website
hppolice.gov.in

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Himachal Pradesh as political entity came into existence on 15 April 1948. It was constituted by integrating the princely States of Chamba, Mandi, Suket, Sirmaur and 26 smaller states known as the Punjab Hill States. Subsequently, in 1954 Bilaspur, which was then a part "C" State, was also merged with Himachal Pradesh. In 1960 District Kinnaur was carved out of District Mahsu which was earlier constituted by merging 27 hill states. After the re-organization of Punjab in 1966, Shimla, Kangra, Kullu, Lahaul & Spiti Districts, Una Tehsil of Hoshiarpur District and Nalagarh Tehsil of Ambala District were also merged with the Union Territory of Himachal Pradesh. In 1972 Districts of Kangra and Mahasu were reorganized. District Kangra was trifurcated and Una and Hamirpur Tehsils were made into separate Districts. Some areas of Mahasu District were merged with Shimla District while the others formed the new District of Solan. In 1948, states like Mandi, Chamba, Sirmaur, Suket and Bilaspur had their regular Police forces. Other smaller states had a common Police Force. The Rulers of Punjab Hill States, with the exception of Sirmaur and Bilaspur, realized the advantage of establishing a common system of Policing in their States. The system was adopted as an experiment for three years from 1 April 1943. This was, in the true sense, the beginning of Himachal Pradesh Police. For proper administration of the scheme, an executive committee, consisting of five members was constituted. Four members of this committee were elected by the rulers from amongst themselves. The fifth member was nominated by the political agent of the Punjab Hill States to represent such states which may be under his direct administration due to minority of the rulers or for other reasons. The committee elected one of them as its chairman. In order to ensure proper administration of police work, an officer of the status of Supdt. of Police in British India was appointed. He had the authority to exercise general supervision over the police cadre in these states. In 1948, after the constitution of the Union Territory, efforts were made to stream line the police force in the state to bring it at par with other forces of the India Union. The police force drawn from different states having varying backgrounds and traditions were amalgamated to form the H.P. Police.

Himachal Pradesh Police comes under direct control of Department of Home Affairs, Government of Himachal Pradesh. The Himachal Pradesh Police is headed by Director General of Police (DGP).^[2] The Training college of Himachal Pradesh Police is situated at Daroh (Palampur).^[3]

The ranks, posts and designations of all police officers vary from state to state as law and order is a state matter. But, generally the following pattern is observed:^[4][5][6]

Gazetted Officers

Indian Police Service gazetted officers rank insignia^[7][8][9]

Insignia

Rank

Director General of Police

Additional Director General of Police[lower-alpha 1]

Inspector General of Police

Deputy Inspector General of Police

Senior Superintendent of Police[lower-alpha 2]

Superintendent of Police

Additional superintendent of police

Assistant Superintendent of Police

Assistant Superintendent of Police (Probationary for two years)

Assistant Superintendent of Police (Probationary for one year)

Abbreviation

DGP

ADGP

IGP

DIG

SSP

SP

Addl. SP

ASP

ASP

ASP

Note 1: The equivalent rank to the three-star ASP in State Police Services is the deputy superintendent of police (DSP/DySP), which is not a gazetted rank and contains the respective state police service's acronym in insignia, such as OPS for Odisha Police Service. Note 2: Commissioner of police is a post is held by different rank officers in different places. For example, it is held by DG rank officers only in Delhi and Mumbai; by Addl. DG rank officers in Pune, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Lucknow, Varanasi, Guwahati etc; by IG rank officers in Trivandrum, Gurgaon, Kochi, Coimbatore, Ludhiana, Madurai, Mysore etc; by DIG rank officers in Kozhikode, Howrah, Amravati, Mangaluru, Jalandhar, Warangal etc.

Non-gazetted officers

Indian Police non-gazetted officers rank insignia ^[10][11]

Insignia

No insignia

Rank

Inspector

Assistant inspector[lower-alpha 3]

Sub-inspector

Assistant sub-inspector

Head constable[lower-alpha 4]

Police Naik[lower-alpha 5]

Police constable

Abbreviation

INSP/PI

API

SI

ASI

HC

SC

PC

Note: Colour pattern and size of chevrons may vary according to the different rules of several distinct Indian State Police services.

Himachal police have another online services like Online Traffic Challan, FIR, Complaints Registering services on their Official website.