<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Head of the Civil Services </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Current Cabinet Secretary </Th> <Td> Pradeep Kumar Sinha, IAS </Td> </Tr> <P> The Indian Police Service (Bhāratīya Pulis Sevā) or IPS, is an All India Service for policing . It replaced the Indian Imperial Police in 1948, a year after India gained independence from Britain . </P> <P> Along with the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and the Indian Forest Service (IFS), the IPS is one of the three All India Services--its cadre can be employed by both the Union Government and the individual States . </P>

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