RAILWAY PROTECTION FORCE (RPF)
GUNTAKAL DIVISION
T. MURALI KRISHNA,IRPFS
Divisional Security Commissioner,
Railway Protection Force,
GUNTAKAL
1)About RPF: Railway Protection Force (RPF) is constituted by an Act of Parliament of India in the year 1957 to protect and safe guard Railway property. It is maintained by the Ministry of Railways. It is headed by Director General/RPF/New Delhi at all India level, Inspectors General-Cum-Principal Chief Security Commissioners at Zonal level and Senior Divisional Security Commissioners (or) Divisional Security Commissioners at Divisional level. At field level, the RPF Posts are headed by the Inspectors as SHOs and RPF Out-Posts are headed by SIs or ASIs.
The RPF Act, 1957 was amended in the year 1985 making the Force as an “Armed Force of the Union”. The Act was further amended in the year 2003, entrusting RPF with the following duties:-
1.To protect and safeguard railway property, passenger area and passenger;
2.To remove any obstruction in the movement of railway property or passenger area; and
3.To do any other act conducive to the better protection and security of railway property, passenger area and passenger
At present, Sri. Sanjay Chander, IPS is the DG/RPF and Sri Raja Ram, IRPFS is the IG-cum-Principal Chief Security Commissioner for South Central Railway.
RPF is a unique Force dealing with offenders of Railway property under RP(UP) Act and deals anti-social elements within the Railway premises under Railways Act.
Recently RPF has been empowered to deal with seizure and searches as per NDPS Act as smuggling of contraband has risen in trains. It is the only Central Armed Police Force which has powers of prosecution. RPF personnel are also deemed as Railway servants as per RPF Act.
2)Railway Helpline 139(Toll Free): A Toll free number 139 on All India level is provided to attend security related problems of Railway passengers, which works round the clock 24x7.
3)Organisational chart of Guntakal Division:
4)Security over Railways:
5)RPF Dog squads in Guntakal Division:
6) Performance under Railway Property (Unlawful Possession)Act:
| Year | No. of cases | Value of property |
| Registered | Detected | % of detection | Stolen | Recovered | % of detection |
| 2020 | 10 | 10 | 100% | 96,810/- | 96,810/- | 100% |
| 2021 (up to Nov) | 12 | 11 | 92% | 59,563/- | 49,533/- | 92% |
7)Performance under Railways Act
| Year | No.of cases registered | No. of persons apprehended | Fine Amount realized | Jailed |
| 2020 | 3278 | 3181 | 6,20,350/- | 00 |
| 2021(up to Nov) | 721 | 691 | 1,73,210/- | 00 |
8) Detection of Theft of Passenger Belonging cases and HOC to GRP/Local Police
| Year | No. of cases detected | No. of persons arrested | Recovered Property Value |
| 2020 | 16 | 14 | 6,27,459/- |
| 2021 (Up to Nov) | 48 | 33 | 2,7,31,895/- |
