The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has completed 12 straight months without an operational death, a first for the force in 47 years. Director General Gyanendra Pratap Singh (GP Singh) shared the update on X on 1 November 2026.
According to the report, the last operational fatality took place on 30 October 2025 in West Singhbhum, Jharkhand, when Inspector Kousal Kumar Mishra and Head Constable Mahendra Lashkar were killed in a blast during an area-domination exercise. The previous comparable period without such a loss ended in January 1979.
What the CRPF chief said
In his post, DG Singh called the development “a significant milestone in the history of CRPF.” He linked the result to the induction of the latest contemporary hardware, improved training, strategic planning, and a greater focus on post-incident response, including the rapid evacuation of injured personnel to secondary and tertiary medical facilities.
He also said the achievement came while the force remained fully deployed across major operational theatres and continued to deliver significant results. “We remain committed to keep the country peaceful & safe for all its citizens,” he wrote.
Link to the end of Left-Wing Extremism
The milestone comes at a time when Left-Wing Extremism (LWE) has sharply declined and, as reported, formally ended. On or around 30–31 March 2026, the government declared India free of Naxalism/Maoism after meeting its long-standing deadline. The report says no LWE-affected districts remain, compared with more than 100 at the peak of the insurgency in the mid-2000s.
At the height of the deployment, nearly 50,000 CRPF personnel were posted in LWE areas, including about 40,000 in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region. In 2025, eight of nine CRPF personnel killed in action died in LWE-affected areas of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Odisha, while one died during field firing practice. In 2024, the force recorded 12 deaths across Chhattisgarh, Jammu and Kashmir, and Manipur.
Changing operational focus
The report says Maoist violence has been effectively dismantled through large-scale surrenders, arrests and the elimination of senior leadership. It specifically notes the arrest of the last Central Committee member, Misir Besra, on 28 July 2026. The CRPF now has a strength of more than 300,000 personnel.
Attention has shifted toward other operational theatres, especially Manipur, where ethnic violence involving Naga and Kuki groups continues. Several battalions have been moved out of Bastar, and the CRPF has taken over some camps earlier held by Suspension of Operations (SoO) cadres while also replacing Assam Rifles at certain locations.
Recent injuries to CRPF personnel in Imphal have been linked to bomb attacks. At the same time, the force continues civic-action work in Manipur villages, including distribution of solar street lights, water storage tanks and other essentials.
Operational record and other losses
The zero-operational-fatality record does not cover non-operational deaths. The report separately mentions suicides among CRPF personnel, and says the National Human Rights Commission took note of 19 such cases between January and May 2026.
GP Singh is a 1991-batch IPS officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre and a former Director General of Assam Police. He took charge as CRPF Director General in January 2025, and his tenure is due to run until superannuation on 30 November 2027.
The development is being presented as evidence of improved force capability and the broader effect of the security and development strategy against LWE. As deployments are adjusted, the CRPF’s work in high-intensity areas such as Manipur will show whether the same mix of equipment, training, planning and medical response can keep casualties low in other theatres as well.
