

Multifarious steps like intensified beat surveillance, vehicle patrolling etc. Similarly, appropriate action is being taken on illicit sale of IMFL. PEW personnel in the district are conducting frequent raids in the black spot villages to ensure that the district is free from the menace of illicit-arrack. Sale and distillation of illicit arrack has been eradicated in Dharmapuri district. Dharmapuri district Police is also taking multifarious steps like road safety awareness programmes in schools and colleges, effective implementation of MV Act etc., to reduce fatal accidents in the district, which comprises of 52 kilometres of National Highway and 290 kilometres of State Highway. However, considering the past history of pro-Naxal activities in the district, proactive measures such as conducting awareness programmes among youth, Police-public sports meets, involvement of Police in social welfare measures in Naxal-affected areas with the help of District Administration are being adopted to alienate youth from Naxal / Maoist ideologies and build confidence on Government machineries.


ĭharmapuri district is free from the activities of Left Wing Extremism or fundamentalism. At present, Dharmapuri district Police has 4 Sub-Divisions, 25 Police Stations and 4 All Women Police Stations apart from 11 Special units.ĭharmapuri district Police, headed by the Superintendent of Police, is functioning with the sanctioned strength of 1 Additional Superintendent of Police, 12 Deputy Superintendents of Police along with 38 Inspectors of Police, Sub-Inspectors of Police and other rank personnel.įunctioning of Dharmapuri district Police headed by the Superintendent of Police is supervised by the Inspector General of Police, West Zone, Coimbatore and by the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Salem Range, Salem.Īt present, Thiru N.Stephen Jesubatham is the Superintendent of Police, Dharmapuri District since.

In 2004, Dharmapuri district was bifurcated and a new district viz. Dharmapuri district Police was formed in the year 1965, when Dharmapuri district was created as the 14th district in the State by carving out from Salem district.
