Sindh Police

Under the Sindh Police Repeal Act the highest rank of police officer is Inspector General of Police (IGP), who heads the police department in the province, with Additional Inspectors General, Deputy Inspectors General, Senior Superintendents and Assistant/Deputy Superintendents serving directly under him. These subordinate officers supervise police functioning within a clearly demarcated part of the province known as a region, range, district or subdivision. The Central Police Office, Karachi is the provincial headquarter of Sindh Police. It is the place where the system of Sindh Police is planed, administered and observed. CPO has many branches i.e. Establishment, Administration, Operations, Finance, Welfare, Legal, Training, Estate Management Logistics, etc. Each branch is headed by designated officers either DIsG or AIsG with specified functions. The Inspector General of Police, Sindh is the overall in-charge of all these branches other than the field formations such as Regions, Ranges, Districts, and Specialized Units etc. The Central Police Office operates as the nervous-system of the provincial police and is responsible for policy formulation, its implementation, and revision on the basis of various factors, transfer postings and smooth functioning of the organization. For administrative purposes, Sindh Police is divided into various field formations i.e. police posts, police stations, subdivisions, districts, ranges, zones, and regions. At the outset, Sindh Police Field Formations can be categorized into three categories including Karachi region, Hyderabad region and Sukker region, Karachi region consists of three zones, CIA, Traffic Police, Security, Foreigner's Security Cell and Courts Security. Each zone, CIA and traffic police is headed by a DIG while districts and security units are headed by SSsp and SsP. Hyderabad region has three region and fifteen districts while Sukkur region comprises of two ranges and eight districts. Ranges are headed by DIGs and districts are headed by SSsP/SsP. Further, there is the Counter Terrorism Department, Investigation Branch, and Special Branch. Some of these units report directly to the IGP while others report to him through the additional inspectors general of police. Vision