Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police
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KP Police خیبر پختونخوا پولیس |
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| Common name | KP Police |
| Abbreviation | KPP |
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| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 14 August 1973 |
| Employees | 65,000 |
| Annual budget | Rs.28,534.630 million |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
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| Map of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police Department's jurisdiction in Pakistan | |
| Legal jurisdiction | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
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| Headquarters | Central Police Office Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum Road Civil Secretariat Peshawar Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan |
| Agency executive | Salahuddin Khan Mehsud, Inspector General of Police |
| Parent agency | Police Service of Pakistan |
| Website | |
| http://www.kppolice.gov.pk | |
| Service colour | Dark blue and red |
| Uniform colour |
Black, Khaki |
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police (Urdu: خیبر پختونخواہ پولیس) (formerly the Frontier Police) is responsible for law enforcement and policing in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police force is headed by Salahuddin mehsud.
The areas that constitute the present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province have witnessed influences from various civilizations, such as the Persians, Greeks, Bactrians and the Kushans. Further, the land of Pashtun came under the rule of the Ghaznavi, Ghauri, Timurid, Afghan, Mughal and the Sikh dynasties as well. These dynasties maintained various arrangements to police over its populations, such as instating kotwals in cities, chaukidars in villages, barkandaz for the supervision of labour work of convicts and private militia in different Khanates of the time.
In 1849, the land of the Pashtun was annexed by the British. Initially the British maintained the policing system of the Mughals and Sikhs in major part of the Pashtun land, however, to establish durable peace and security Punjab Frontier Force was raised. After the war of independence in 1857, there was no organised police force in India and a full-fledged policing system was established under Police Act of 1861. The Act was extended to frontier territory in 1889 and a number of armed personnel were placed at the disposal of the Deputy Commissioner/district Magistrate for Police duties.
After gaining full control of India the British rulers constituted a Police Commission on 17 August 1860. This Commission submitted its report within 22 days with a draft Police Act which was enacted in 1861 and the present Police force came into being. This Police Act was drafted on the lines of Irish Constabulary Act and was primarily meant to create a Police force to consolidate and maintain the British Raj in India. It was absolutely different from the philosophy, duties and objectives of Police forces in Great Britain.
In 1901, the frontier territory was constituted as a province called the North-West Frontier Province (N-WFP) and placed under the Chief Commissioner control who used to agent to the Governor General of India. In this new province, two administrative systems were established: The British territory of the province was divided into five Settled Districts, i.e. Hazara, Peshawar, Kohat, Bannu and Dera Ismail Khan and the territories lying in the North and the West of the settled districts were divided into five Political Agencies, i.e. Khyber, Mohmand, Kurrum, North Waziristan & the South Waziristan Agencies. Each Political Agency was under a Political Agent. The Settled Districts were under the Inspector General of Police (IGP) of the N-WFP. Criminal Courts were established under Code of Criminal Procedure in 1889. There was Cantonment Police for the protections of garrisons as well.
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