Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy
Introduction '''Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy''' ('''SVPNPA''') is the civil service training institution in India. The institute trains Indian Police Service (IPS) officers before they are sent to their respective state cadres to carry out their duties. The academy is in Shivrampalli, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.Dr. Raghuram Rajan, Governor, Reserve Bank of India, delivering the 30th Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Memorial lecture on "Reforming India's Economic Institutions", at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy, in Hyderabad on October 23, 2015.
History The academy was established on 15 September 1948, as the '''''Central Police Training College (CPTC)'''''. In 1967, the Institution was renamed as the '''''National Police Academy (NPA)'''''. Later, in 1974, it was named after India's first Minister of Home Affairs Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel who was responsible for creating the All India Services and for establishing a training institution to train IPS officers. In 1975, the Academy attained its current shape which once was the biggest police training grounds of Nizam of Hyderabad at Hyderabad.
Campus The 277 acre campus is located in Hyderabad on the National Highway 44.
Training It trains officers of the Indian Police Service, who have been selected through the All-India Civil Services Examination. The trained officers will be posted as Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) in their respective states under whom the other sub-ranks of police force will be working. The recruitment of sub-ranks such as constables, sub-inspectors, inspectors, Deputy Superintendent of Police is each state's prerogative and will be done by respective state director generals of police. The IPS cadre is controlled by the Home Ministry of the Government of India and the officer of this service can only be appointed or removed by an order of the President of India.Apart from the Basic Training Course for IPS officers the Academy conducts three In-service Management Development Programmes for officers of Superintendent of Police, Deputy Inspector General of Police and Inspector General levels of the Indian Police Service; 'Training of Trainers' Courses for the trainers of police training institutions in the country; IPS Induction Training Course for State Police Service Officers; and short specialised thematic courses, seminars and workshops on professional subjects for all levels of police officers. Foreign police officers and other officers belonging to IRS/IAS/IFS/Judiciary/CAPF, public sector undertakings, nationalised banks, insurance companies etc. also attend specialised courses conducted here from time to time. The academy is affiliated to Osmania University for conducting courses on police subjects for IPS officers.Central IPS MessView of the Rajasthan Bhavan situated within the Academy
President's colours A 2008 stamp dedicated to Vallabhbhai Patel National Police AcademyIn recognition of the outstanding achievements of the academy and its service to the nation, the academy received the President's Colours on its 40th anniversary on 15 September 1988.
Organisation The Academy is headed by a Director, an IPS officer of the rank of Director General of Police (3-star rank) and assisted by 2 Joint Directors of the rank of Inspector General of Police, 3 Deputy Directors of the rank of Deputy Inspector General of Police, and 20 Assistant Directors. The Assistant Directors include 8 IPS/SPS officers of the rank of Superintendent of Police from state cadres, a Forensic Scientist, an Indian Judicial Service Officer, a specialist each in Training Methodology, Computers and Wireless. The sanctioned strength of the faculty includes management professors, reader in Behavioural Sciences, reader in Teaching Methodology, medical officers, junior scientific officer, Hindi instructor, photographic officer and chief drill instructor. The supporting staff include administrative, ministerial and medical staff and other Group D employees.
List of directors S.No. Name Cadre & batch Appointment date Left office 1  P L Mehta, IP  West Bengal  15 September 1948  31 January 1954 2  Waryam Singh, IP  Punjab, 1941  11 February 1954  5 November 1956 3  A R Jayavant, IP  Madhya Pradesh  8 March 1957  16 May 1958 4  G K Handoo, IP  United Provinces  17 May 1958  30 October 1960 5  B B Banerji, IP  Bihar, 1934  14 March 1961  28 February 1962 6  S C Misra, IP  United Provinces, 1933  24 March 1962  7 December 1967 7  B B Banerji, IP  Bihar, 1934  1 January 1968  31 January 1970 8  A K Ghosh, IP  Bihar  1 February 1970  10 July 1971 9  S G Gokhale, IPS  Maharashtra, 1949  1 February 1972 31 July 1974 10  S. M. Diaz, IPS  Tamil Nadu, 1949  11 September 1974  28 February 1977 11  R D Singh, IPS  Bihar  7 November 1977  4 February 1979 12  P A Rosha, IPS  Haryana, 1948  5 February 1979  18 September 1979 13  B K Roy, IPS  Odisha, 1948  11 November 1979  31 January 1982 14  G C Singhvi, IPS  Rajasthan, 1951  18 February 1983  30 November 1985 15  A A Ali, IPS  Madhya Pradesh, 1955  2 December 1985  31 March 1990 16  P D Malviya, IPS  Madhya Pradesh, 1957  12 September 1990  31 December 1991 17  Sankar Sen, IPS  Odisha, 1960  2 April 1992  31 May 1994 18  A P Durai, IPS  Karnataka, 1962  1 July 1994  28 September 1996 19  Trinath Mishra, IPS  Uttar Pradesh, 1965  12 June 1996  6 December 1997 20  P V Rajagopal, IPS  Madhya Pradesh, 1965  29 June 1998  31 May 2001 21  M K Shukla, IPS  Madhya Pradesh, 1966  29 June 1998  31 May 2001 22  Ganeshwar Jha, IPS  Uttar Pradesh, 1967  11 July 2002  31 July 2004 23  Kamal Kumr, IPS  Andhra Pradesh, 1971  1 October 2004  31 October 2006 24  Dr G S Rajagopal, IPS  Rajasthan, 1971  11 July 2002  31 July 2004 25  K. Vijay Kumar, IPS  Tamil Nadu, 1975  1 December 2008  5 May 2010 26  Rajiv Mathur, IPS  Chhattisgarh, 1974 22 October 2010  30 September 2011 27  V N Rai, IPS  Haryana, 1977 2 November 2011  31 December 2012 28  Subas Goswami, IPS  Assam, 1977 7 March 2013  8 November 2013 29  Aruna Bahuguna, IPS  Telangana, 1979 28 January 2014  28 February 2017 30  D R Doley Burman, IPS  Jammu and Kashmir, 1986  1 March 2017  29 March 2019 31   Abhay                  Odisha, 1986                                       30 March 2019  7 November 2019 32  Atul Karwal, IPS Gujarat, 1988  27 December 2019  29 June 202233AS Rajan, IPSBihar, 198730 June 202228 February 2023
See also * Indian Police Service* Law enforcement in India* Indian Police Foundation and Institute* Bureau of Police Research and Development* National Crime Records Bureau* NDCRTC* Telangana State Police Academy
References
External links *  Official SVPNPA website