Assam Police

The Assam Police is the law enforcement agency for the state of Assam in India. The regular police force was initiated in Assam by the British after the Treaty of Yandaboo to maintain the law and order. It functions under the Department of Home Affairs, Assam. The headquarters of Assam Police is situated at Ulubari in the state capital Guwahati.

Organizational structure

Assam Police comes under direct control of Department of Home Affairs, Government of Assam.
The Assam Police is headed by a Director General of Police. The current DGP of the Assam Police is Harmeet Singh, IPS

Assam police forces are organized into police ranges, headed by an inspector general deputy inspector general, who controls several police districts.
The police district is the fulcrum of state police activity and each district is headed by a superintendent. In many states a superintendent is assisted by one or more additional superintendents or deputy superintendents. Generally, a police district is same as a revenue district of a state.
The police district is divided into police sub-divisions under the command of a deputy superintendent of subdivision police officer.
The police sub-division is made up of one or more police circles, and is under the command of an inspector, often referred to as the circle inspector.
Under the police circles are the police stations, generally under the control of a sub-inspector.

Assam state police force also maintains its own Reserve Armed police force which is responsible for emergencies and crowd control issues. They are generally activated only on orders from the rank of DIG and higher-level authorities.
The armed constabulary do not usually come into contact with the general public unless they are assigned to VIP duty, counter-insurgency operations, riot control or to maintain law and order during fairs, festivals, athletic events, elections, and natural disasters.
They may also be sent to quell outbreaks of student or labour unrest, organised crime, to maintain guard posts and to participate in anti-terrorist operations. Depending on the type of assignment, the Armed Police force may carry lathis or lethal weapons.
Assam Police also have an elite commando group known as the "Black Panthers" equipped with modern weapons and technology for anti-terrorist operations and VVIP protection.

List of DGP of Assam Police

Branches

With the growth and development of the police administration in the post-colonial era, a number of new branches were established to meet the increasing demands of law and order. Some of these branches are:

Bureau of Investigation
Special Branch
Criminal Investigation Department
Assam Police Border Organization
Assam Police Radio Organization
Assam River Police Organization
Directorate of Forensic Science. Assam
Assam Village Defense Organization.
Fire & Emergency Services, Assam
State Disaster Response Force, Assam
Assam Police Highway Patrol Unit,

The Assam Police has grown from strength to strength during the last two decade. In 1980 it had a force of 40,290 and at the end of the 20th century its numerical strength stands at 60,721.

Battalion and Reserved Forces

Assam Police Battalion
Assam Police Battalion personnels are engaged in the onerous task of helping the district police in maintaining Law and Order, besides guarding the vital installations round the clock, including Counter Insurgency, Riot control. They are also engaged in other static security duties.

Year	Battalion	Headquarters	District	Notes
1948	1st APBN	Ligripukhuri	Sivasagar	Engaged in manning 11 Border outpost
1952	2nd APBN	Makum	Tinsukia	Engaged in Law and Order duties besides manning 4 Border outpost
1957	3rd APBN	Titabor	Jorhat	Engaged in Law and Order duties besides manning 6 Border outpost
1962	4th APBN	Kahilipara	Kamrup	Engaged in Law and Order duties besides manning 4 Border outpost
1964	5th APBN	Sontilla	North Cachar Hills	Engaged in Law and Order duties
1965	6th APBN	Kathal	Cachar	Engaged in Law and Order duties besides manning 6 Border outpost
1986	7th APBN	Choraikhola	Kokrajhar	Engaged in Law and Order duties
1966	8th APBN	Abhayapuri	Bongaigaon	Engaged in the guarding of vital installations and Law and Order duties
1970	9th APBN	Barhampur	Nagaon	Engaged in manning 6 Border outpost, important railway bridges, other security and Law and Order duties
1973	10th APBN	Kahilipara	Kamrup	Engaged in important security duties
1978	11th APBN	Dergaon	Golaghat	Engaged in important security and Law and Order duties besides manning 7 Border outpost
1980	12th APBN	Jamugurihat	Sonitpur	Engaged in manning 2 Border outpost, guarding vital installations and other Law and Order duties
1987	13th APBN	Lilabari	North Lakhimpur	Engaged in Law and Order duties besides manning 4 Border outpost
1987	14th APBN	Dualasal	Nalbari	Engaged in Law and Order duties besides guarding vital installations

Indian Reserve Battalion
The raising of CPMF can only meet the regular and increasing demand of the state. It was decided to augment the strengths of the state governments. It is in this context that I.R. Battalions were raised in Assam with the assistance of the central government. The central government however reserves the first right to call on these battalions as and when required for deployment outside the state. The personnel of the battalion are engaged in both operational as well as law and order duties.

Year	Battalion	Headquarters	District
1994	15th AP IRBN	Eraligool	Karimganj
1994	16th AP IRBN	Bormonipur	Morigaon
2001	19th AP IRBN	Tengakhat	Dibrugarh
2001	20th AP IRBN	Panbari	Dhubri
2006	21st AP IRBN	Katlicherra	Hailakandi
2006	22nd AP IRBN	Likabali	Dhemaji
2008	23rd AP IRBN	Siloni	Karbi Anglong
2009	24th AP IRBN	Eraligool	Karimganj
2009	25th AP IRBN	Ligiripukhuri	Sivasagar

Assam Police Task Force
APTF Battalion was raised as a speciality peace keeping force to tackle the instances of communal and group violence.
The personnel of this force were posted in vulnerable areas and minority pockets, so that any sign of communal disharmony could be quickly countered and prevented from flaring up into a major communal violence. This force has functioned effectively as an emergency task force.

Year	Battalion	Headquarters	District
1984	1st APTF Battalion	Dakurvita	Goalpara
1984	2nd APTF Battalion	Lumding	Hojai
1984	3rd APTF Battalion	Khajuabeel	Udalguri
1985	4th APTF Battalion	Howly	Barpeta

Commando Battalion

Year	Unit	Headquarters	District	Notes
1996	Black Panthers Commando	Mandakata	North Guwahati	Specially trained commando Battalion to deal with Counterinsurgency operations
2012	Veerangana Commando	Kahilipara	Guwahati	Specialised women commando battalion engaged to tackle crime against women

State Disaster Response Force
State Disaster Response Force or SDRF ASSAM is a Specialised force of Assam Police raised with the objective of carrying out relief and rescue operations in a quick and effective manner during any natural and man-made disaster.
There are 05 Companies of SDRF Battalion In Different Parts of Assam.

Year	Unit	Headquarters	District	Notes
2011	1st Company SDRF Battalion	Lilabari	North Lakhimpur	Formed out of 13th AP
2011	2nd Company SDRF Battalion	Kathal	Cachar	Formed out of 6th AP
2011	3rd Company SDRF Battalion	Sila	North Guwahati
2020	4th Company SDRF Battalion	Abhayapuri	Bongaigaon
2020	5th Company SDRF Battalion	Dergaon	Golaghat

Medals and awards

Officers of Assam Police got many awards and medals for their outstanding and meritorious service.
Many officers and men of the Assam Police, laid down their lives in the fight against extremism since 1986.
Kirti Chakra

Year	Rank	Name	Notes
2013	Inspector	Lohit Sonowal	Posthumously awarded for eliminating Two ULFA militants in Tinsukia
2016	Constable	Gautam Koch	Posthumously awarded for eliminating militants in Dhansiri Outpost

Shaurya Chakra

Year	Rank	Name	Notes
2007	Superintendent of Police	Pankaj Sharma	Eliminated NSCN militants from Assam-Nagaland Border in 2004

Jeevan Raksha Padak

Year	Rank	Name	Notes
2024	Officer-in-Charge	Samarjit Basumatary	Civilian rescue from Longai River, Karimganj

List of receivers for 2011 President's Police Medal for Gallantry:

Constable Nirmal Chandra Deka.

Police Medal for gallantry on republic day 2017.

Pranab Kumar Gogoi Circle Inspector.
Utpal Borah.Sub-Inspector
Anurag Agarwal.SP
Prakash Sonowal.SDPO
Imdad Ali.SDPO
Mahananda Gauria.Constable
Ghanakanta Malakar.Constable
Hemkanta Boro.Constable
Ratneshwar Kalita.Constable
Bapan Roy