These are the flagship long-form notes of the CAPF wiki. They go deeper than the Paper I modules and the revision sheets because they cover the one dimension a CAPF (Assistant Commandants) candidate cannot get from a generic GK book: the architecture of India's internal and border security, the five Central Armed Police Forces, the law that governs the use of force, and the security-versus-rights balance that the interview and Paper II essay reward.
The static-fact spine of these notes is anchored to the Constitution of India (Articles and Schedules), the founding Acts of the forces and of the security agencies, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) Annual Report, and primary multilateral and human-rights instruments (the UN Charter, the Geneva Conventions, the UDHR). They are written for a candidate who wants both the marks and the deeper command that helps in the Personality Test.
Read a Security note first if you are weak on the forces; read a General note when you want the wider machinery. Each note ends with a Last-mile recall block, a Common-confusion table, and authored practice (labelled, not verbatim previous-year questions).
- internal security architecture of india, the federal split of public order and defence, Art 355, the MHA, the CAPFs, the intelligence and investigation grid, and the doctrines that bind them.
- the five capfs in depth, BSF, CRPF, CISF, ITBP and SSB by raising year, parent ministry, mandate, deployment and role, plus the wider family of Assam Rifles, the NSG, the NDRF and the RPF, with a comparison table.
- border management of india, the "one border, one force" doctrine, the length of each frontier, fencing, the BOLD-QIT and the Comprehensive Integrated Border Management System, and the guarding force per border.
- afspa and the human rights debate, the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act 1958, the disturbed-area mechanism, the Naga People's Movement of Human Rights case (1998), the Jeevan Reddy Committee (2005), the NHRC's Section 19 limit, and the security-versus-rights balance.
- left wing extremism and naxalism, Naxalbari (1967), the Red Corridor, the SAMADHAN doctrine, the CoBRA battalions, and the surrender-and-rehabilitation policy.
- insurgency in the northeast, the drivers of insurgency, AFSPA in the region, and the major peace accords.
- jammu kashmir and cross border terrorism, the reorganisation of August 2019 and Article 370, the Line of Control, and infiltration.
- indo china border and the lac, the Line of Actual Control, the 1962 war, the McMahon Line, Doklam (2017), Galwan (2020), and the ITBP.
- indo pak border and relations, the Radcliffe Line, the Line of Control, Sir Creek, the wars of 1947 to 48, 1965, 1971 and 1999, and the BSF.
- disaster management and the ndrf, the Disaster Management Act 2005, the NDMA, the NDRF and the SDRFs, and the force's role.
- coastal and maritime security, the post 26/11 architecture, the Indian Coast Guard, the Sagar Prahari Bal, and the three-tier coastal security grid.
- terrorism and counter terrorism, the UAPA, the NIA, the Multi-Agency Centre, NATGRID, and the legal architecture.
- cyber security and national security, CERT-In, the NCIIPC, the National Cyber Security Policy, and the digital threats to the forces.
The deep notes above are security-led by design, because that is the CAPF-distinctive demand. For the wider static base (the Constitution, history, geography, economy and science) work from the Paper I subject modules and the revision sheets:
- Index, the polity module, including the closely linked human rights and internal security.
- Index, physiography, rivers and borders (the geographic base for border management).
- Index, the freedom struggle and the modern period.
- Index, the last-minute one-screen revision sheets.
- Paper I single-correct and matching: raising years of the forces, the guarding force per border, the founding Acts, the Article numbers (355, 370, 33, 21).
- Paper II essay (Part A): the security-and-human-rights essay is a standing option; these notes supply the structured argument and the instruments to cite.
- Personality Test: the interview board probes the candidate's grasp of the force they may join, of AFSPA and the rights balance, and of current border and internal-security developments. These notes build that command.