Pakistan Police Officer Ranks, Badges and Grades

Pakistan police officer ranks, badges with grades/ pay scales and all other detail is given here.

Pakistan Police Ranks with Grades

Police Rank	Abbreviation	Scale / Grade
Constable		BS 05
Head Constable		BS 07
Assistant Sub Inspector	ASI	BS 09
Sub Inspector	SI	BS 14
Inspector		BS 16
Assistant Superintendent of Police / Deputy Superintendent of Police	ASP / DSP	BS 17
Superintendent of Police	SP	BS 18
Senior Superintendent of Police / District Police Officer / Assistant Inspector General	SSP / DPO/ AIG	BS 19
Deputy Inspector General / Regional Police Officer / City Police Officer	DIG / RPO / CPO	BS 20
Additional Inspector General	Addl. IG / CCPO	BS 21
Inspector General of Police / Provincial Police Officer	IGP / PPO	BS 22

• SHO, DPO, CPO, RPO and PPO are posts, not ranks. So you may see a lower rank acting as a higher post for some time.
• Station House Officer (SHO) could be either a Sub Inspector or Inspector.
• Deputy Superintendent of Police (D.S.P) and Assistant Superintendent of Police (A.S.P) are of the same level, the difference is that DSP is promoted from the junior rank and is an experienced Police officer while ASP is a young Police officer who joined the service directly as an officer after passing civil service exam.

Pakistan Police Insignia/ Badges

All provinces of Pakistan have their own police service such as the Punjab Police, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police, Sindh Police, Balochistan Police. Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Police, Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) Police and Gilgit Baltistan (GB) Police work in their territories. 

Each police force has a Commissioner of Police appointed as Inspector-General who are the most senior officers from the Police Service of Pakistan (PSP) - a constituent of the Central Superior Services of Pakistan.

There are several other types of law enforcement agencies e.g. Airports Security Force, Anti-Narcotics Force, Federal Investigation Agency, Frontier Constabulary, National Highways and Motorway Police, Pakistan Coast Guard, Pakistan Railways Police, Pakistan Customs, Balochistan Constabulary, Balochistan Levies, Frontier Police, Punjab Prisons, Police Qaumi Razakars, Frontier Corps etc.

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