The Full Form of DCRB is‍ District Crime Record Bureau.

The District Crime Records Bureau is the Criminal Intelligence and information Agency of the District Police and an integral part of the crime-criminal information system of the State and the country.  The main functions of the Bureau are:

• Maintaining books of all Acts related to Police and Chief Office, CID/SCRB, Range Office Circulars subject-wise and date wise, circulates them to all concerned for compliance and maintain a stock file, reiterate them during crime meeting through SP.
• Compilation, Collation, Maintenance, Analysis, updating and dissemination of criminal records and crime-criminal information. The information system is secured from A.P. Police Intranet data w.e.f. 01.01.2009 electronically and shall also include:
• All types of crimes, active and habitual criminals who commit crime against property and whose activities extend over more than one Police Station limits.
• Counterfeit currency (FICN-Fake Indian Currency Notes) offenders.
• White collar crimes including Multi-Level Marketing Frauds.
• Cyber crimes, including “419” Nigerian frauds.
• Organized crime, crime syndicates and criminal gangs, their members, terrorist crimes and gangs.
• Of fences against children, women and other weaker sections, scheduled tribes and scheduled castes, Human Trafficking offenses.
• Communal offenses.
• Environmental crimes including Bio-diversity Act violations and temple – property thefts, smuggling and Drug Trafficking offenses.
• Collect, record, collate, analyze, interpret and disseminate information about crime and criminals and the movements and activities of the district, inter-district, inter-state and international criminals using ‘AP Police Intranet’ ensuring entry of all arrest data (I.I.F) in all PSs for updating arrest data.
• Remain in constant touch with the incidence of crime in districts, cities, railway police and other states also movements of criminals, criminal gangs;
• Maintain constant on-line communication with SCRB and make available by fastest means the information to the field officer, including at the scene of crime, besides acting as a reference point for all investigating officers and teams.