MP Police (District Indore) serves a region of three million people.

The men that held post at various police stations were in fact soldiers, usually privates (Persian: sepoys, commonly referred to as jawans).

In 1872, a renovation project prepared by Sir T. Madhava Rao handed over the services of all sepoys, cavalry, and senior officials from the military to the judicial cabinet.

Col. Thakur, the first Inspector General of the Indore police, directed his officers to refer to the rules and regulations as framed by the British rulers of India.

This was due to the death of most of the police jawans in the 1903 epidemic and the general public not being ready to be recruited.