CENTRAL RESERVE POLICE FORCE (CRPF)

July 4, 2021

The Central Reserve Police Force, CRPF has signed a MoU with Centre for Development of Advanced Computing C-DAC to train the manpower of the force in advanced technologies like Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber security, Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing and Big Data Analytics.

About:

The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) is the premier central police force of the Union of India for internal security.
It functions under the authority of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) of the Government of India.

Timeline

Originally constituted as the Crown Representative Police in 1939, it is one of the oldest Central para military forces (now termed as Central Armed Police Force).
CRPF was raised as a sequel to the political unrest and the agitations in the then princely States of India following the Madras Resolution of the All-India Congress Committee in 1936 and the ever-growing desire of the Crown Representative to help the vast majority of the native States to preserve law and order as a part of the imperial policy
After Independence, the force was renamed as Central Reserve Police Force by an Act of Parliament on December 28, 1949. This Act constituted CRPF as an armed force of the Union.
Shri V.G.Kanetkar was appointed as first DG, CRPF.

Source : All India Radio