Tamil Nadu Police
What the state budget set aside to run the police and to build or buy for them. The larger Home grant also carries courts and other offices — those are not Police.
2026-27 plan
Running costs ₹12,436 crore · Buildings and gear ₹353.54 crore.
Last four official figures
Spent, plan, updated plan, and next plan. Printed in thousands; shown in crore.Tamil Nadu budget 2026-27Source: Detailed Demand for Grant — Demand No. 22 Police (Home, Prohibition and Excise), Interim Budget 2026-2027, Finance Department, Government of Tamil Nadu, FY 2026-27, cover; Demand 22 summary (rupees in thousands)
Spent
2024-25
₹10,900.79 crore
Plan
2025-26
₹12,713.69 crore
Updated
2025-26
₹11,898.42 crore
Plan
2026-27
₹12,789.54 crore
Amounts in crore of rupees. Spent, plan, and updated plan are different kinds of figure — not one trend.
Running the force vs buildings and gear
Same year’s plan. Buildings and gear are the thin slice — that is the book.Tamil Nadu budget 2026-27Source: Detailed Demand for Grant — Demand No. 22 Police (Home, Prohibition and Excise), Interim Budget 2026-2027, Finance Department, Government of Tamil Nadu, FY 2026-27, cover; Demand 22 summary (rupees in thousands)
- Running costs · 97.2%
- ₹12,436 crore
- Buildings and gear · 2.8%
- ₹353.54 crore
The Home grant is not only police
The Assembly also votes a larger Home grant that includes courts and other offices. That bigger number is not Police.
Home grant, 2026-27 plan: ₹13,576.72 croreSource: Detailed Demand for Grant — Demand No. 22 Police (Home, Prohibition and Excise), Interim Budget 2026-2027, Finance Department, Government of Tamil Nadu, FY 2026-27, cover; Demand 22 summary (rupees in thousands)
Salaries not split by station
A statewide salaries total is not typed here. Named police stations are not printed as allotments.
Trace
Book stops here
Each stop is a printed grain, or a dashed EMPTY where the book does not print the next line. We do not invent a station share.
Book
Tamil Nadu state budget, Home, 2026-27
Police
Running the force plus buildings and gear.
Running costs
Buildings and gear
Salaries
A statewide salaries total is not typed here.
Named police station
The book stops here. We do not divide that total by the number of stations.
A research summary lists Tamil Nadu police at ₹12,714 crore for 2025-26. That is not this official 2026-27 plan of ₹12,789.54 crore.
Footnotes
Detailed Demand for Grant — Demand No. 22 Police (Home, Prohibition and Excise), Interim Budget 2026-2027 — 2055 Police; 4055 Capital Outlay on Police — not the mixed Demand 22 voted total
Finance Department, Government of Tamil Nadu. Fiscal year 2026-27. cover; Demand 22 summary (rupees in thousands). Extracted 2026-09-06.
Figures printed in thousands of rupees. Converted to crore by dividing by 10,000. Demand 22 also prints 2014, 2015, 2051, 2052, 2059, 2070, 2235 and other heads — those are not Police. Hero is 2055 + 4055 only.
Account codes in the book: 2055 (running), 4055 (buildings). All states · Sources & methodology