Introduction The Central Reserve Police Force was established as the Crown Representative's Police on 27 July 1939 and was renamed the Central Reserve Police Force on 28 December 1949 following the adoption of the CRPF Act. The Central Reserve Police Force recently celebrated 82 years of distinguished service. Following Independence, a challenging administrative problem was the retention of CRP (Crown Representative Police). As 'law and order' is a State affair, everyone ques