Kerala Police - Ranks

Ranks

Further information: List of police ranks in India

The ranks used in the Kerala Police are as follows

  • Director General of Police (DGP)
  • Additional Director General of Police (Addl.DGP)
  • Inspector General of Police (IGP)
  • Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG)
  • Superindentent of Police (SP)
  • Deputy Superindentent of Police (Dy.SP)/Assistant Superindentent of Police (ASP)
  • Inspector of Police (Circle Inspector or CI)
  • Sub-Inspector of Police (SI)
  • Assistant Sub-Inspector of Police (ASI)
  • Senior Civil Police Officer (Police Head Constable (HC) is now obsolete)
  • Civil Police Officer (Police Constable (PC) is now obsolete)

Note: A new rank of Assistant Sub Inspector (Grade) was introduced recently. This rank, however, is more of a nomenclature to be used in official records. As per the new government policy Head Constables who have 15 years of service gets automatically promoted to Assistant Sub Inspector. Since the pay scale of the Head Constables would be the same of the starting pay-scale for an ASI, no additional burden is levied on the state exchequer. The ASIs (Grade) will wear the same rank insignia as that of a normal ASI.

There was a plan to promote every ASI with a service of 25 years to a Sub-Inspector but this is yet to be implemented. As of today Sub-Inspector vacancies reserved for promotees gets filled up based on the seniority of the Assistant Sub-Inspectors in a police range.

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