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    Indo-Tibetan Border Police

    Emblem of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police

    Common name Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force

    Abbreviation ITBPF

    Motto Shaurya – Dridhata – Karm Nishtha

    Valour – Steadfastness and Commitment

    Agency overview

    Formed 24 October, 1962

    Employees 89,432 active personnel[1]

    Annual budget ₹6,018.69 crore (US$840 million) (2019-20 est.)[2]

    Jurisdictional structure

    Federal agency IN
    Operations IN

    jurisdiction

    Governing body Ministry of Home Affairs (India)

     Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force Act,


    Constituting
    1992
    instrument

    General nature  Federal law enforcement

    Specialist  Paramilitary law enforcement, counter

    jurisdictions insurgency, and riot control.

     National border patrol, security, and

    integrity.

    Headquarters New Delhi, India

    Minister  Amit Shah, Union Home Minister

    responsible

    Agency executive  S S Deswal[3], Director General of

    ITBP

    Parent agency Central Armed Police Forces

    Facilities

    Boats 30

    Planes nil

    Website

    itbpolice.nic.in

    Indo-China border at Nathu La, is guarded by the ITBP

    The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) is one of the five Central Armed Police


    Forces of India, raised on 24 October 1962, under the CRPF Act, in the wake of
    the Sino-Indian War of 1962. The ITBP was intended for deployment along India's
    border with Tibet.
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    In September 1996, the Parliament of India enacted the "Indo-Tibetan Border Police
    Force Act, 1992" to "provide for the constitution and regulation" of the ITBP "for
    ensuring the security of the borders of India and for matters connected therewith". [4]
    [5]
     The first head of the ITBP, designated Inspector General, was Balbir Singh, a
    police officer previously belonging to the Intelligence Bureau. The ITBP, which
    started with 4 battalions, has since restructuring in 1978 has undergone expansion to
    a force of 60 Battalions with 15 Sectors and 05 Frontiers as of 2018 [6] with a
    sanctioned strength of 89,432.[7]
    The ITBP is trained in Civil Medical Camp, disaster management, and nuclear,
    biological and chemical disasters. ITBP personnel have been deployed abroad in UN
    peacekeeping missions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Haiti,
    Western Sahara, Sudan, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Two battalions of ITBP are
    deputed to National Disaster Response Force.

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