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| Myanmar Police Force မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ ရဲတပ်ဖွဲ့ | |
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| Motto | "ကူညီပါရစေ" (Let me help you.) |
| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 1964; 61 years ago (1964) |
| Preceding agency | |
| Employees | 93,000 (2012)[1] |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction | Myanmar |
| Legal jurisdiction | Myanmar |
| General nature | |
| Operational structure | |
| Headquarters | Naypyidaw |
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| Agency executive |
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| Parent agency | Ministry of Home Affairs |
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TheMyanmar Police Force (Burmese:မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ ရဲတပ်ဖွဲ့), formerly thePeople's Police Force (ပြည်သူ့ ရဲတပ်ဖွဲ့), is the law enforcement agency ofMyanmar. It was established in 1964 as an independent department under theMinistry of Home Affairs.
The Police Force in Myanmar has an extensive history; the police force also includes local police and regional police in different jurisdictions.
The primary police force in British Burma was theBurma Police. In addition, there was a paramilitaryBurma Military Police, the Railway Police, and the Rangoon Town Police. From roughly 1891, most executive positions within the Burma Police were filled by members of theIndian Imperial Police cadre.
In 1872 the third mayor ofMergui District, SirAshly Din (1870–1875) assigned the first police officer to be stationed atMaliwan, a village 24 miles north of currentVictoria Point.
Perhaps the most famous policeman in Burma from this period is the authorGeorge Orwell, who in 1922 joined theIndian Imperial Police inBurma. Another famous colonial policeman in Burma was Hector Hugh Munro, known asSaki.
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On 16 March 1988 following the killing of two students during thepro-democracy demonstrations,students marching onProme Road were confronted nearInya Lake by the security force riot police and many beaten to death or drowned.
The national police are made up of several smaller entities, including
The currentDirector General of Myanmar Police Force is Major GeneralZin Min Htet with its headquarters inNaypyidaw. Its command structure is based on established civil jurisdictions. Under the command of police headquarters, state and region police forces have been established in respective territories of states and divisions with headquarters in their capital cities.[3]
There are 14 state and divisional police forces and three additional state/division police forces commanded by police brigadiers or colonels.Their jurisdictions are divided according to the Civil Administration. The states and divisions, additional states have the same status.
Each state and divisional police force consist of four components.
In previous time, thedistrict police forces are classified into two classes depending on the area, population and development, namely A and B Class. Commanders of the A Class District Police Forces are policelieutenant colonels, and B Classes are policemajors, but there is no classification and all districts assigned with lieutenant colonel. Commanders of township police forces are policemajors, and police station officers are policecaptains.
There are four Special Departments, in which the first ten departments are headed by the policebrigadier generals and the remaining two are by policecolonels.
There are three main Training Centers, one Central Training Institute of Myanmar Police Force and Three Police Training Depots. The State and Divisional Police Forces have their own training centres for refresher courses and Junior Leader (NCO) Courses.
Bachelor's degree holders from Distance Learning University were disqualified from sitting the SIP exam. Thus vast numbers of Bachelor holding police personal were concerned for their future.
| Course Name | Duration |
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| Deputy Superintendent Cadet Course | 50 weeks |
| Sub-Inspector Cadet Course | 6 weeks |
| Surveillance Officer Course | 6 weeks |
| Investigation Officer Course | 6 weeks |
| Police Station Officer Course | 8 weeks |
| Staff Officer Course | 6 weeks |
| Township Police Commander Course | 8 weeks |
| District Police Commander Course | 12 weeks |
The No.1 Police Training Depot is commanded by a PoliceLieutenant Colonel and undertakes:
| Course Name | Duration |
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| Basic Training Course for Lance Corporal and Corporal | 4 weeks |
| Warrant Officer and Police Sergeants Course | 12 Weeks |
| Basic Training Course for Constables | 24 weeks |
| Clerical Training | 4 weeks |
| Instructor Renewal Course | 4 weeks |
The No.2 Police Training Depot is also commanded by a Police Lieutenant Colonel, and undertakes only Basic Training Course for Constables, which normally takes around 6 months to complete.
| Course Name | Duration |
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| Basic Training Course for Constables | 6 Months |
The Taung Lay Lone Police Training Depot is commanded by a PoliceLieutenant Colonel and undertakes:
| Course Name | Duration |
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| Basic Training Course for lance corporal and Corporal | 4 weeks |
| Warrant Officer and Police Sergeants Course | 12 Weeks |
| Basic Training Course for Constables | 6 Months |
There are sixteen PoliceBattalions to carry out general security duties under the command of Battalion Control Command. TheBattalionCommandants are PoliceLieutenant Colonels. As the populace of the cities including Yangon and Mandalay have been increased day after day, problems on social, economy and politics are risen up that could lead to emergence of civil unrest and sabotage. It is necessary to prevent from destruction and harassment, VIP and project factories and workshops, security ofdiplomats and their embassies. Seven of these Police Battalions are situated in theYangon Divisional areas and two in Mandalay and three in Arakan, one inSagaing, one inMon State, one inPegu, one inProme.
These specially-trained and combat capable battalions are formed with personnel from former Riot Security Police, better known as "Lon Htein" Units. Each battalion consists of 500+ personnel and these battalions are supported by two support battalions, which include signal and medical units. These battalions structure are similar to that of Army'sLight InfantryBattalions and they are subordinate to their respectiveRegional Military Commands.[1]
26 special anti-narcotic task forces have been established under the direction of the Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control.
Myanmar Police Force uses a wide range of weapons and ammunitions, ranging fromSecond World War vintage weapons to modern sophisticated ones.
Most of the weapons are either seized from ethnic militias and criminals or are locally-produced copies of theG3 and other weapons phased out by the army.
| Photo | Model | Type | Quantity | Origin | Notes | ||
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| Armoured vehicle/Armoured personnel carrier | |||||||
| ZFB-05 | Armoured personnel carrier | 10[6] |  China | Received by 2011, they were transferred to police from Myanmar Army.[6] | |||
| Sinotruk HOWO | Water cannon truck | unknown | China | One of the most widely used against protesters in February 2021Myanmar. | |||
| BAAC-87 | Armoured personnel carrier | unknown |  Myanmar | One of the most widely used against protesters in February 2021Myanmar. | |||
| Class | Builder | Serial Number | Year Entered Service | Armament | Note |
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| PGM class | Myanmar | 331 332 333 334 | 2012 | machine guns |
| Class | Builder | Serial Number | Year Entered Service | Armament | Note |
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| PCE class | Myanmar, China | 171 151 152 153 154 156 001 002 003 161 162 | 2013 | machine guns |
| Rank group | General / flag officers | Senior officers | Junior officers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ရဲဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး raaibauilaʻ khayupaʻ krīʺ | ဒုတိယရဲဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး dautaiya raaibauilaʻ khayupaʻ krīʺ | ရဲဗိုလ်ချုပ် raaibauilaʻ khayupaʻ | ရဲမှူးချုပ် raaimahūʺ khayupaʻ | ရဲမှူးကြီး raaimahūʺ karī | ဒုတိယရဲမှူးကြီး dautaiya raaimahūʺ karī | ရဲမှူး raaimahūʺ | ဒုတိယရဲမှူး dautaiya raaimahūʺ | ရဲအုပ် raai ’aupaʻ | ဒုတိယရဲအုပ် dautaiya raai ’aupaʻ | ဒုတိယရဲအုပ်လောင်း dautaiya raai ’aupaʻ laoṅaʻʺ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank group | Senior NCOs | Junior NCOs | Enlisted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Myanmar Police Force |  |  |  |  | No insignia | No insignia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ရဲအရာခံဗိုလ် Raai ’araā khaṃ bauilaʻ | ရဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး Raai tapaʻ karpaʻ krīʺ | ရဲတပ်ကြပ် Raai tapaʻ karpaʻ | ဒုတိယရဲတပ်ကြပ် Dautaiya tapaʻ karpaʻ | ရဲတပ်သား Raai tapaʻ saāʺ | ရဲတပ်သားသစ် Raai tapaʻ saāʺ sacaʻ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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